May 2, 2013
By Bob Sloan Below are today’s articles and materials related to ALEC and the Koch funded conservative cabal. Included ALEC published material – if available. Click on a link to view the complete article. First “Ag-Gag” Prosecution: This Utah Woman Filmed a Slaughterhouse from the Public Street “This is the first prosecution in the country [...]
Apr 25, 2013
by Bob Sloan Today there are numerous articles on ALEC and many of their legislative pursuits in states like South Dakota, Michigan, North Carolina. and elsewhere. In order to keep readers with an interest in ALEC up to date on stories related to ALEC, we’re posting this page with brief descriptions of ALEC activities and [...]
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, [...]
Feb 4, 2013
(or “Why Nevada is Going to Get Sued for Millions.“) With recent headlines like “Conference attendees say Nevada isn’t doing enough to educate ELL students,” and “GOP lawmaker seeks more state funding for English language learners,” it should come as no surprise that Nevada has an English Language Learner problem in its grade schools. What such [...]
Feb 4, 2013
A Virginia Senate committee voted Tuesday to permanently kill a bill that would have aligned the state’s electoral votes with its House districts, a move critics say would have swung the 2012 presidential election for the Republican candidate despite President Barack Obama’s overwhelming victory in the popular vote. The Virginia Senate’s Privileges and Elections Committee [...]
Feb 3, 2013
George and Jeb Bush (Jason Reed/Reuters) A nonprofit group released thousands of e-mails today and said they show how a foundation begun by Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and national education reform leader, is working with public officials in states to write education laws that could benefit some of its corporate funders. A [...]
Jan 25, 2013
Today Nevada Workers Lose Jobs to Inmates – Next it Could be your Turn Third and final segment of the series on Nevada’s situation involving unfair competition by use of prisoner labor by Bob Sloan, Executive Director, VLTP.net “Insourcing”..: there is no current definition for this word in our Urban Dictionary or Websters. I plan to [...]
Jan 19, 2013
It wasn’t mere coincidence that a day before N.C. Senate leader Republican Phil Berger (R-ALEC) unveiled a plan to overhaul the state’s tax system that Nebraska’s GOP Gov. Dave Heineman was giving his State of the State address focusing on the same thing. And it’s not just happenstance that the centerpiece of both plans is [...]
Jan 16, 2013
While ALEC legislators still insist on implementing ALEC experimental policies and legislation claiming they are cost effective. But, at the same time, the public is being inundated with more and more research that privatization of governmental agencies does not benefit anyone – except the ALEC corporate profit sector member who gets the state contract or [...]
Jan 3, 2013
If a stranger attacks you inside your own home, the law has always permitted you to defend yourself. On the other hand, if an altercation breaks out in public, the law requires you to try to retreat. At least, that’s what it used to do. In 2005, Florida became the first of nearly two-dozen states [...]
