Feb 28, 2013
The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) allowed states to opt out of the law’s Medicaid expansion, leaving each state’s decision to participate in the hands of the nation’s governors and state leaders. A roundup of what each state’s leadership has said about their Medicaid plans February 27, 2013 Text last updated on Feb. 26, [...]
Dec 9, 2012
Michigan leaders, like moths, are mindlessly being drawn to the destructive Right-to-work flame, soon making them the 24th state to enact a bad law which every qualified economist who has seriously studied the subject finds to be destructive to a state’s economy and workforce, while being little more than a short-term political lever at best. The state will join the ranks of: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, [...]
Jul 16, 2012
After one of the most powerful and courageous social movements in American history, one which took the lives of at least 40 people, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, LBJ famously signed the voting rights act in 1965 ending these practices. “Wherever, by clear and objective standards, states and counties are using regulations, or [...]
Jul 6, 2012
I was watching Rock Center on TV when it hit me. The segment was about the problems that they are having in the farming sector in Alabama. Now that illegal immigrants have fled, there is nobody to work the fields and do this back-breaking work, a fields are rotting away. Reporter Kate Snow spent time [...]
Jun 27, 2012
SUMMARY OF VOTER ID LAWS PASSED Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin all passed new voter ID laws in their 2011 or 2012 legislative sessions. For each state, this memorandum provides: a brief description of the substance of the new law; its effective date; the types of photo [...]
Jun 15, 2012
A Tea Party group is suing states to try to purge their voter rolls before November’s election. True the Vote, an arm of the King Street Patriots, has filed a suit against the state of Indiana, alleging that the state has poor “list maintenance” of its voters. [nice of them to do the dirty work [...]
Mar 19, 2012
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — The House of Representatives adjourned for the day today after a squabble over a bill that would let private businesses employ prison inmates to make their products. There was no vote on the bill. Many black lawmakers opposed it, saying it could take jobs from Alabama citizens and that it harkened back [...]
