Tim Anderson

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Wisconsin sets new rules, caps on damages in civil liability cases

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Tim Anderson
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 12:00 AM

As the result of one of the first actions taken by Wisconsin’s newly elected Legislature and governor, new rules governing the state’s civil justice system are now in place.

Question of the Month: What kind of population variations among state legislative and U.S. congressional districts are legally permissible?

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Tim Anderson
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 12:00 AM

As legislators go about the work of redrawing political maps, one fundamental rule guiding their decisions will be to keep the populations of political districts as equal as possible.

Signs of success in Ohio's changes to long-term care

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Tim Anderson
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 11:58 AM

Changes in state policy are helping Ohio rebalance its long-term-care system in a way that expands choices for consumers and results in cost savings.

Changes in gun laws hit Iowa and Ohio

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Tim Anderson
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 11:54 AM

A new "shall issue" law has taken effect in Iowa, while a court ruling in Ohio blocks cities from establishing local gun-control laws

Municipal bankruptcy in hands of states

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Tim Anderson
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 11:51 AM

In a sign of fiscal times for distressed local governments, talk of municipal bankruptcy has picked up in parts of the Midwest and across the country.

Census results will result in loss of money and influence for Midwest

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Tim Anderson
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM

In a decade when the U.S. population grew at the smallest rate since the 1930s and the Great Depression, every Midwestern state failed to keep pace with the nation’s 10-year growth rate of 9.7 percent.

Prison populations falling amid talk of more state reforms

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Tim Anderson
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 11:39 AM

For the first time since 1977, the nation’s state prison population is on the decline, and Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin are among the 24 states that contributed to the decrease.

Wisconsin joins wave of states energy-efficiency resource standard

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Tim Anderson
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Seven states in the Midwest now have adopted energy-efficiency resource standards, a policy tool increasingly being used by lawmakers to promote energy conservation and cut consumers’ electric bills over the long run.

No easy answers: As states and K-12 schools brace for loss of federal funds, legislatures seek new education efficiencies and reforms

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Tim Anderson
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM

Across the Midwest, no single expenditure gobbles up more of the state budget pie than K-12 education — a reflection of the high priority that legislatures place on education, as well as the pressures that lawmakers have faced (from constituents and the courts, for example) to strengthen funding for schools. In the coming months, that dedication to K-12 education funding will be put to the test.
 

Federal data show how far Great Lakes economy has shrunk

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Tim Anderson
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Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 03:48 PM

The national recession didn’t strike every part of the United States with equal force, and it appears the Great Lakes region got the worst of the severe economic blow.

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