California lawmakers dealt a blow to the for-profit college industry last week by disqualifying poorly performing schools from a key state financial aid program. More…
The nation’s largest for-profit college is aggressively lobbying against a proposal in California that would disqualify it and other proprietary schools from a key state financial aid program. More…
In state legislatures across the country, slashing the benefits and pension plans of public sector workers has come into bipartisan fashion. Even in the deep-blue states of California and New York, governors are leading pushes to cut the pensions and benefits packages won by public workers over the decades. The More…
Gov. Susana Martinez is the only U.S. governor in attendance at this year’s Border Governors Conference in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, which brings together representatives from the governments of the states along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), who was set to host the conference last year but
Struggling with an ongoing recession-era budget crisis that has seen hundreds of millions of dollars slashed from public education alone, Colorado lawmakers tried and failed to get mega-online retailer Amazon to pay state sales taxes last year More…. Amazon successfully dodged similar efforts in other states, but the tax man
A bill that would commit California’s 55 Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote (NPV) in presidential elections was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Monday. The bill would only come into effect if enough states sign similar legislation so that a majority More…
Three members of Congress are due to release a letter Friday asking California Gov. Jerry Brown to suspend the state’s participation in Secure Communities (.pdf). #
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According to a release, U.S. Reps. Xavier Becerra, Lucile Roybal-Allard and Judy Chu, as well as Los Angeles City Council member Bernard C. Parks, will ask for
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst aren’t the only state leaders in the U.S. to have private donors and corporate interests pick up the tab for their inauguration ceremony.
The Dallas Morning News More…‘ Wayne Slater reports that “Oil executives, beer distributors, lobbyists and big-dollar campaign donors
