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from May 1992
Last Number: June 2023

National Conference of State Legislatures
ISSN 0147-6041


Cantidad de documentos en esta fuente: 7844

July 01, 2004

  • Scott Reske.

  • New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Representative Christopher Rants, speaker of the Iowa House, have accepted NCSL's appointments to the advisory board of the new Election Assistance Committee, created by the federal Help America Vote Act.

  • Illinois Senate Majority Leader Vince Demuzio, elected in the 1974 post-Watergate-era Democratic landslide, died of colon cancer in April.

  • John Ramsey, father of slain 6-year-old Jon-Benet Ramsey, is running in the Republican primary for Michigan's 105th House District.

  • A plea of no contest to charges of theft for listing his wife on health insurance forms before they were married led to the resignation of the Oregon Representative John Mabrey.

  • Ray Ruiz, a New Mexico representative and former iron worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory, died of lung cancer in May.

  • John Hurson.

  • Getting to school safely.

  • Income inches up.

  • Down home tourism.

  • Spyware beware in Utah.

  • Tennessee buys American.

  • Wyoming terminates term limits.

  • Stinking school buses.

  • Stats, stats and more stats.

  • Gasless grass.

  • Pay up or zip up.

  • Two seats, two votes.

  • Plumbers beware.

  • Just like new.

  • Legislative fantasies.

  • They dream of sprawl.

  • The young are waking up.

  • Free the bees.

  • The new legislative reality: how leaders see it.

  • Trade agreement trade-offs; international trade tribunals challenge state law and policy.

  • Coverage conundrum: the challenge of rising state employee health insurance costs is hitting states hard.

  • What's the benefit? A new federal Medicare drug plan stimulates independent actions and new ideas, but what's the future role for states?

  • Dennis Damon: as good as it gets: devoted to bettering the wider community, this Maine Senator lives up to the state motto "Drigo"--I lead.

  • How to deal with conflicts of interest: there's no getting away from all conflicts of interest. Here are eight ideas to help lawmakers juggle their personal and public interests.

  • Exercising choices: living a healthy lifestyle can be a family affair--even in busy political families.

  • Welfare reform: Minnesota style: reforming welfare is a work in progress. Even Minnesota's successful experiment that encourages work, but retains some benefits, is still being tweaked.

  • ORCA--not a killer, but a whale of a Texas agency: Texas 2001 House Bill 7: the creation of the Office of Rural Community Affairs.

  • See you in court: the balance of power between governors and legislatures sometimes gets out of whack.

  • As they see it.

    • July 01, 1992

  • New York's prisoners go to work - or else.

  • Alaska builders learn about energy efficiency.

  • Pollution credits enter the market in L.A.

  • California heads for a budget showdown.

  • Turning State street upside down.

  • Government reform, Florida-style.

  • Benchmarks to a better Oregon.

  • Are the courts too partisan?

  • Achieving clean air.

  • The thoroughly modern Mason's Manual.

  • Commission continues Mason's work.

  • School enrollment will rise in the 1990s, but how much?

  • Running for coverage.

  • Feds take a stab at health care reform.

  • Americans need to focus on long-term growth.