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Monday, December 6, 2010 at 09:27 AM
Like many women, North Dakota Treasurer Kelly Schmidt was asked to run for office. And like many women her knee-jerk response was, “What do you mean, me ?” “As a woman, sometimes we have doubts, we don’t talk very nice to ourselves,” Schmidt said. Not only that, with four sons (the youngest was...
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Monday, December 6, 2010 at 09:10 AM
Great nations can come crashing down in just one generation—not thousands of years as conventional wisdom dictates. That’s according to David Gergen, senior political analyst for CNN and professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government where he is also director of its Center for Public...
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Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 08:48 AM
There may have been a lot of people in the room looking at all sides of health care reform through different colored glasses, but there was one central message no matter their position. Clement Cypra, deputy vice president for State Affairs at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of...
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Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 08:21 AM
If you’re taking antibiotics for a sore throat, earache or bronchitis, you might as well be taking sugar pills. That’s according to Dr. David Newman, emergency room doctor and director of clinical research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
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Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 04:16 PM
Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Daniel T. Eismann can attest to the success of the drug courts in his state. As a former drug court judge, he knows full well why the legislature continues to support the problem-solving courts even in tough fiscal times.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 12:00 AM
On the northern side of the border, the Canadians still run their government much like Great Britain. With many similarities to the British Parliament, they have many differences to American state governments.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 02:37 PM
Does GIS—geographic information system—sound too much like techno babble? Well, thousands of Virginia emergency management officials use the technology all the time. In fact, it often is the difference in making a quick, emergency decision to save lives and property versus scrambling to get all the necessary information in a crisis. Virginia uses GIS mapping combined with real-time data in its intuitive Virginia Interoperability Picture for Emergency Response program, nicknamed VIPER.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Kansas Sen. Vicki Schmidt is not the type of female politician who screams, “I am woman, hear me roar.” Instead, she prefers to focus on the issues. With more women serving in state government and running for office, maybe it’s time women in government just became part of the new normal.
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Friday, May 28, 2010 at 03:22 PM
During times of recession, businesses cut back because of a lack of demand for their products, but not so for state governments. As states are losing revenue and having to make do with less—residents hit hard by the down economy often need government services more.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 03:00 PM
Nearly 40 percent of North Carolinians who voted in 2008 didn’t vote in the Supreme Court race that year. But North Carolina Appellate Judge Bob Hunter aimed to change that in his campaign for state Supreme Court. That’s why he mixed the old with the new—the best of both worlds—to get the job done.