Oak Grove, Minnesota, has petitioned the state Supreme Court to settle a dispute with Anoka County over which of the two jurisdictions can designate the use of electronic voter rosters — as opposed to paper rosters — in county, state and federal elections held at Oak Grove’s polling places. Anoka County has mandated all precincts in […]
Some Oregon lawmakers said it would be up to voters to decide if Rep. Greg Smith should continue serving after ethics violations.
Lewis and Clark District Court Judge Christopher Abbott on Wednesday ruled that two Republican lawmakers will be allowed to stay on November’s ballot, halting a new opinion last week by the attorney general that would have booted them. Rep. Llew Jones, Republican nominee for Senate District 9, and Rep. Steve Fitzpatrick, Republican nominee for House […]
Montana’s School Funding Interim Commission voted 13-7 last week to approve a final report, including 10 draft bills that will go before the Montana Legislature this upcoming session.
When given the opportunity to take a public stance on the controversial NV Energy rate scheme set to go into effect next year, seven state lawmakers on Tuesday opted to say nothing at all. Approved by the Public Utilities of Commission of Nevada last year and set to go into effect Jan. 1, NV Energy’s […]
One of the Legislature’s most powerful members could be replaced on the general election ballot, against his will, by his longtime friend after a Monday night vote.
In the recently passed budget, North Carolina lawmakers included $5 million for a statewide digital credential system for the state’s 58-school community college system. The budget provision includes technical requirements that appear to favor a politically-connected vendor that participated in a state pilot program last year. Who wrote the budget language remains unclear, but the […]
About 9% of Ohio’s state lawmakers are moms of children under 18, according to a new report, giving them insight into issues impacting families with minor children, several said in interviews. The third Politics of Parenthood: Representation in State Legislatures report was recently published by the Vote Mama Foundation, a nonprofit organization that studies the […]
Montana District Court Judge Chris Abbott said on Tuesday afternoon he will decide quickly on a lawsuit filed by two longtime Republican state legislators over Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s reinterpretation of the state’s term limit statue. Knudsen published his opinion just days before the secretary of state must certify who will be on the November […]
(The Center Square) – A bill that would have outlawed transactions involving glow-in-the-dark rabbits, "unicorns" and other genetically engineered animals stalled in the California Legislature this year despite bipartisan support.
