National Conference Of State Legislatures News
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When the Rhode Island Senate voted in April to legalize same-sex marriage, it produced an unusual political dynamic: every Republican supported it.
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Hybrid and electric cars are sparing the environment. Critics say they’re hurting the roads.
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Investor confidence in U.S. municipal debt is the highest in three years even as Moody’s Investors Service warns that local-government credit quality is set to weaken for the 18th straight quarter.
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Marijuana retailers in Colorado will be required to grow a majority of what they sell. In Washington, retailers can’t also be growers and processors under proposed regulations.
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From Florida to Michigan, states are readying record budgets as tax collections are set to exceed prerecession peaks. The achievement is going unrewarded in the $3.7 trillion U.S. municipal-bond market.
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Star Scientific Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jonnie Williams treated Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell to a $2,268 vacation getaway.
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Kelly Blair, a banker from the Baltimore suburbs, spends hundreds of dollars online every year buying gifts and household supplies like pet food and shampoo. She doesn’t check to see whether she owes sales tax -- though her home state of Maryland says that she should.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he doesn’t mind breaking promises to pensioners to close a $10.5 billion budget deficit -- even if they sue.
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Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, whose borrowing ability has withered as the state suffered the nation’s biggest drop in property values, wants to tap a revenue stream that emerged from the recession unscathed: liquor taxes.
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As legal challenges to President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul proceed to a decisive U.S. Supreme Court battle, state ballot boxes are becoming skirmishing grounds in efforts to impede the law.
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