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
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 [...]
Jan 23, 2013
Lawmakers in states that formerly lacked the political will to openly bust unions with Right to Work laws are now lining-up like dominoes, emboldened by the Michigan lame duck legislative feeding frenzy that puked-up, among 300 hastily passed laws, a RTW bill that the spineless flip-flopping governor meekly signed into law, after saying he had no interest in [...]
Jan 19, 2013
More disturbing news from the midwest. Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri? First of all – let’s start with a recap of information from a report that was issued a few months ago – about the effect of implementing ALEC policies in your state. (my emphasis) ALEC/Laffer claim that wage suppression policies (anti-union “right-to- work” laws and the [...]
Jan 11, 2013
The Wisconsin Assembly Republicans are quite the bunch. They all stood by as people were removed, day after day, for simply filming an open meeting or silently holding a sign. It seems they forgot to read the Wisconsin Constitution, which states in articles three and four: SECTION 3. [Free speech; libel.] Every person may freely [...]
Dec 23, 2012
Andre Agassi was a great tennis star and continues to be a celebrity. Lately, he is an education investor. Agassi may have good intentions. He may be trying to help a distressed and poverty riddled community in Las Vegas. Philanthropy and schools mixed with a dash of banker on the side. It’s likely that his [...]
