Vol. 40 No. 4, April - April 2014
Index
- Dispatches.
- New! NCSL elections database.
- Say what?
- See you there.
- Trending @ NCSL.ORG online.
- Tweet tweet.
- Webinars.
- Pensions healthier, but liabilities remain.
- Four decades strong: the 1980s: big hair, big president, big shoulders.
- Inside the New Mexico Senate: boots, suits and citizens.
- NCSL senior fellow Jack Tweedie, one of the nation's leading experts on welfare reform, died.
- North Carolina Senator Martin Nesbitt, a veteran lawmaker who ran for office to fill the seat of his late mother.
- Texas is the first state to hold primary elections in 2014.
- Twelve-year incumbent and NCSL executive committee member representative Linda Harper Brown lost her Texas primary to former representative Rodney Anderson.
- Wisconsin assembly republicans voted unanimously to oust Bill Kramer.
- Overdose deaths trigger state action.
- Focusing on mug shot websites.
- U.S. test scores stagnant.
- Greyhound countdown.
- Tax day: by the numbers.
- 1 Hawaiian pluck.
- 2 TXTL8R.
- 3 Cellblock slims.
- 4 fix for the freeze.
- 5 Milk, unplugged.
- 10 Budget blues in Maine.
- 6 Packin' pastry.
- 7 Revisiting the grocery tax.
- 8 Hunters unite.
- 9 Breaking up is hard to do.
- Something to like: almost everyone is using some kind of social media, including legislatures and lawmakers.
- Tips from the trenches.
- A drop in the bucket: rainy day funds proved no match against recession-era budget gaps.
- Preserving reserves: modernizing life insurance reserve formulas has been challenging for regulators and policymakers.
- Mid-term review: Supreme Court cases this term hold less importance to states than in previous years, but they are no less intriguing.
- Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.: president and CEO of TIAA-CREF.
- As they see it.