Govs, Bush Vow Closer Health-Care Efforts
The Bush administration pledged to help states in danger of running out of money for a popular children's health program and agreed to work with a newly created task force of governors on ideas for...
View ArticleHealth Care, REAL ID Top Govs' Priorities
The nation's governors staked out children's health care and the National Guard as top concerns for a Democratic-controlled Congress that is preoccupied with the war in Iraq, a daunting federal deficit...
View ArticleGay Marriage Decisions Ripe in Calif., Conn.
(Updated March 6, 2008)More than four years after its historic court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Massachusetts stands alone in blessing gay marriages - more than 10,000 to date - and its...
View ArticleReal ID Deadline Delayed
States can get an extra 19 months to begin beefing up security of their driver's licenses, blunting a major complaint with the federal Real ID Act but still leaving states facing an estimated $14.6...
View ArticleWORTH NOTING: Lawmakers Key in on State Songs
Florida may be dumping "Way Down Upon the Swanee River" as its state song, racy truck decorations are running into roadblocks, and South Carolina poker players could be off the hook. In case you missed...
View ArticleReport Validates Govs' Worries Over Guard
A new report to Congress bolsters governors' complaints that they've wrongly been left out of decisions about sending state-based National Guard units to war despite effects on emergency preparedness...
View ArticleCOMMENTARY: How States View the President's Opening Health-Care Bid
From a state's perspective, President Bush's new proposals on health care raise a number of concerns, writes Raymond C. Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association. In a new...
View ArticleCOMMENTARY: Despite Regulations, Real ID Still Cause for Concern
When Congress enacted the Real ID Act in 2005 to create national standards for strengthening the security of drivers licenses, it asked Homeland Security to come up with rules to implement the law....
View ArticleReport: Tolls Can't Meet Future Highway Needs
State highway officials warned Wednesday (March 7) of a looming $11 billion hole in federal highway funds and said the growing shift toward tolls and private leases of roads can't generate enough money...
View ArticleWORTH NOTING: New York's Math Tools Come up Short
New York's Education Department can't measure up, the plight of a reality TV hero attracts hundreds to the Hawaii Capitol and Mississippi cracks down on serial candidates. In case you missed those...
View ArticleMore U.S. Schools Pin Fortune on Chinese
As China's global status continues to rise, so does the demand for Chinese instruction, leaving school districts across the country scrambling to find qualified teachers of the language.
View ArticleWORTH NOTING: Texas Claims Highest Net Total in NCAAs
Texas boasts the most home state teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, Pluto gets a boost in New Mexico skies, and South Carolina pushes shorter sentences for prison inmates who donate organs....
View ArticleIs `No New Taxes' Mantra Fading in States?
If 2006 was the year of surpluses for states, 2007 could be the year of tax hikes. Five governors are proposing hefty tax increases to bankroll ambitious new health-care and education programs, and...
View ArticleExecutions Halted as Doctors Balk
A conflict between medical ethics and court orders that a doctor participate in lethal injections has halted executions in California, Missouri and North Carolina. The ethical issue raised by doctors...
View ArticleGovs and Hospitals Try to Block Medicaid Cuts
A coalition of governors and hospital groups says it has the support of nearly two-thirds of the members of Congress to block a Bush administration plan to cut $5 billion in Medicaid funding.
View ArticleWORTH NOTING: Timberlake Too Sexy for Tennessee
Pop singer Justin Timberlake's too hot for the Tennessee Senate, bombastic words come back to bite a former Maryland state senator, and Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (R) aims to bring more business to his...
View ArticleNo Child Law Faces Medley of Changes
President Bush's signature domestic-policy achievement, the No Child Left Behind education act, faces calls for change from disparate groups as Congress begins reworking the 5-year-old law.
View ArticleWORTH NOTING: Former Gov Saw 'UFO'
Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington (R) now claims he saw a UFO in 1997, a Michigan legislator enjoys the novelty of a valid license, and Tennessee bikers could get in trouble for popping a wheelie. In...
View ArticleQuick Cancer Mandate Raises Health Concerns
A look at the history of vaccines in the United States sheds light on why a number of vaccine experts are uneasy over the quick march toward requiring a new cervical cancer inoculation.
View ArticleGovs Call for More Control Over NCLB
The nation's governors support renewing the oft-criticized No Child Left Behind federal law, but want far more authority to carry out its mandates, according to a set of recommendations the National...
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