The Maine Senate was poised late Thursday night to pass a bill that would achieve a longtime goal of Republicans: inject free- market reforms into the state's health insurance market and dismantle regulations that were largely established by Democrats over the last 20 years. But it appeared that any Republican victory would come at a steep price. Furious that Republicans had "ramrodded" the bill through the Legislature, Democrats were threatening to turn the final weeks of the legislative session into a partisan battle.
Five incumbent Niagara County legislators are among the 13 candidates entered in contested primaries for Legislature seats Tuesday. There are six contests in all, five in Niagara Falls and one in Lockport. Four of the races are among Democrats, two among Republicans.
Here we go again: Ten years after ignoring critics and redrawing state and federal election district boundaries in a politically corrupt fashion, the New York State is embarking on the same disreputable path. While the could still set off in the right direction after a bad start, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo should plan on keeping his veto pen handy. The problem in Albany is the same as the problem in Erie County: The task of redrawing district lines after each Census is given to politicians, who understand their task to be crafting districts that best protect themselves and other incumbents. They want to choose their voters before their voters choose them.
AUGUSTA As the debate over state employee benefits and the cost of government intensifies in the State House, some lawmakers are hoping their colleagues have the political will to shrink the size of the Legislature and its multimillion-dollar price tag. With 186 lawmakers 151 in the House and 35 in the Senate Maine has the 10th largest legislature in the nation, despite ranking 40th in total population.
AUGUSTA, Maine -- An attorney representing a state lawmaker accused of threatening a stranger with a loaded handgun in May said Tuesday he hopes to resolve his client's case before a grand jury can hand up an indictment next month. Leonard Sharon, attorney for Rep. Frederick L. Wintle, R- Garland, said he believes the matter can be settled soon, possibly paving the way for Wintle's return to the .
NASHVILLE - Big Shelby is losing some of its clout in the Tennessee legislature - numerically at least - as a result of the county's slower population growth relative to the Nashville suburbs and parts of East Tennessee. When the new legislative district maps that Republican leaders are drawing up behind closed doors are made public, Shelby County will lose one of its six state Senate seats for the first time in 50 years and likely two of its 16 seats in the state House of Representatives.
The 2012 General Assembly session will open Wednesday with partisan tension in the Senate, new faces from the Roanoke and New River valleys in the House of Delegates, and a full plate of weighty issues for lawmakers to digest over the next two months. In its 60-day session, the legislature will need to pass a two- year state budget and decide whether to lift the state's moratorium on uranium mining. Lawmakers also will redraw congressional districts, renew some long-running debates over gun restrictions and decide whether to use more money from the state's general fund for transportation.
New Bill That Would Create Pilot Program for Commercial Farming of Industrial Hemp Expected to Reach Governor's Desk This September SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Introduced by Senator Mark Leno earlier this year, SB 676, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act is moving quickly through the California Legislature. SB 676 would create an 8-year pilot program to allow industrial hemp farming in five California counties, Kern, Kings, Imperial, San Joaquin and Yolo. Passing through the Assembly Committee on Agriculture last week with a 6-0 vote, leading hemp advocacy organization, Vote Hemp, expects the bill to reach the Governor's desk this September.
Lawmakers are signaling that there won't be any increases to the higher education budget, even as the Arizona Board of Regents works toward two goals that will require more money from the state - an end to tuition increases and a funding formula based on performance. Regents President Tom Anderes said Aug. 16 that ending tuition increases could be accomplished if the Legislature does not enact more budget cuts. But a more permanent solution to holding the line on tuition would be to increase state money as part of a plan to implement performance-based funding for the state's universities.
MADISON - Gov. Scott Walker's first budget, which Democrats attacked with fierce rhetoric but didn't have the votes to stop, passed the Republican-controlled Legislature on Thursday and was expected to be signed into law quickly. Republicans moved rapidly to approve the $66 billion two-year spending plan in the face of recall elections this summer that could give Democrats control of the Senate and the ability to block their agenda.
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