Vol. 40 No. 5, May - May 2014
Index
- Dispatches.
- New rules.
- Say what?
- See you there.
- Trending @ncsl.org.
- Tweet tweet.
- Webinars.
- Sad for grads: record student debt.
- Four decades strong.
- Bill Behnk, coordinator of California's Legislative Information Services for the Office of Legislative Council, died in April after a career spanning decades.
- Democrats lost their supermajority in the California Senate after three senators involved in criminal probes were suspended with pay by their colleagues in late March.
- Kansas representative Marc Rhoades (R) resigned his chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee in protest over a school funding proposal.
- Pennsylvania Senate Republicans and Democrats have passed a ban on cash gifts from lobbyists and others in response to reports that four House Democratic colleagues took money from an undercover informant in a sting investigation begun in 2010.
- Rhode Island Representative Nicholas Mattiello (D) was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives four days after federal and state law officers raided the office and home of then-speaker Gordon Fox, hauling out boxes labeled "evidence.".
- Richard "Dick" Sweet, a widely respected attorney with the Wisconsin Legislative Council for 36 years, died in April from melanoma.
- Wisconsin Senate President Mike Ellis (R), a 44-year veteran of the legislature, dropped out of his race for re-election after he was secretly recorded discussing how to create an illegal political action committee to defeat his challenger, Representative Penny Bernard Schaber (D).
- Solitary gets a second look.
- Drug tests for benefits? It's complicated.
- From weeds to seeds.
- Leading the charge.
- 1 Whiskey rebellion.
- 2 More medal for Indiana Olympians.
- 3 North Dakota wants you!(STATELINE) (Brief article)
- 4 Sound and fury.
- 5 Non-discrimination paws.
- 10 Smoker smackdown.
- 6 Holocaust reparations.
- 7 Paper or electronic?
- 8 Prison U.
- 9 Trouble in the henhouse.
- Reinventing Michigan: as the nation began descending into economic crisis in early 2008, no state was falling faster or further than Michigan.
- Roca: a rock for the at-risk: a program in Massachusetts is successfully transforming the lives of the most troubled young men.
- Up in smoke: controlling the destruction caused by wildfires is a hot issue in the West.
- Rural legislators dig in: as farming communities dry up, so does their influence in statehouses, pushing rural lawmakers to ask: 'What's more important than food?'.
- As they see it.