DPW secretary confident feds will approve Healthy PA Medicaid reform
By Andrew Staub | PA Independent The secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare is confident the federal government...
Month: February 2014
SC lawmakers try to enforce state’s ‘founding documents’ law
By Taylor Smith | The Nerve More than a year ago, The Nerve published a story about my discovery of...
MD legislative budget staff says roll back just-ratified state employee raises
By Len Lazarick | Maryland Reporter State employees last Wednesday ratified a new one-year contract that provided 2 percent raises,...
WA Senate bill exposes how union power hurts neediest students
By Jami Lund | Freedom Foundation A recent tug-of-war in the Washington Senate shows how the interests of adults are...
MI judge to hear unfair labor practices complaint against teachers union
By Jack Spencer | Michigan Capitol Confidential The Michigan Education Association says its members can only leave the union during...
California Senate leader proposes carbon tax on gasoline
By Wayne Lusvardi | Cal Watchdog Last week, California Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, proposed a “carbon tax”...
Big Obama donor turns attention to MN, but should Dems return the money?
By Tom Steward | Watchdog Minnesota Bureau CHANGE OF ADDRESS: A 29-year-old Minneapolis bio-metric consultant went from rock bottom to...
Illinois governor running hard left
By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Watchdog SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn never was going to run as a moderate,...
UW journalism center defends involvement in ‘inappropriate’ FCC study
By M.D. Kittle |Wisconsin Reporter MADISON, Wis. — Under fire for its involvement in a controversial — and now suspended...
How two missing NM Democrats changed the 2014 legislative session
DEMOCRATS NEEDED THEM: The absence of state Reps. Phillip Archuleta (left) and Ernest Chavez affected the 30-day legislative session. By...
