Short takes On NCSL News.

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"The one word we have not used since the recession has been 'robust.'"

NCSL's Arturo Perez about the slow-moving economic recovery, in Bloomberg.

"That's going to start a lot of conversations in other states."

NCSL's Dustin Weeden on a Washington proposal to cut college tuition by as much as 25 percent, in The Seattle Times.

"You get some revenue out of it, and if you don't do it too often, it can be effective."

NCSL's Mandy Rafool on state tax amnesty programs, in CPAPracticeAdvisor.com.

"State legislators often do look at what their colleagues in other states are doing."

NCSL's Richard Cauchi in The Wall Street Journal, on bills to require the pharmaceutical industry to disclose drug costs.

"The states...