MINOT — North Dakota has had a lot of legislative vacancies of late. By the way, are you wondering how that last squares with Article IV, Section 6 of the state constitution? The bit of law states, in ...

Our representative democracy rests on a fundamental principle: We, the people, have a right to participate in decisions that ...

Speaker Robert Rivas says real legislative oversight of the effects of new laws will become regular practice starting next ...

Last month, as Maryland lawmakers considered a bill that would ban transgender students from playing in girls’ sports, something was notably missing from the House Ways and Means Committee hearing ...

There have been several published reports of state government at its subterranean worst. A few weeks ago the media reported that during the final hours of the 2023 session of the Connecticut General ...

ALBANY — The State Legislature next week is scheduled to vote on a $254 billion state budget that was due more than a month ago and negotiated behind closed doors. The details of what's in it won't ...

Rhode Island’s Constitution mandates that decennially, next on Nov. 5, 2024, the people of Rhode Island can call a state constitutional convention via a popular referendum. It also mandates that prior ...

Northern High’s Luke Grover and Patuxent High’s Morgan Castro-Arndt will serve as 2026 Maryland General Assembly student pages, with Huntingtown’s Madelyn Stay as alternate, in Annapolis program now ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, during the session, will also face each other in the ...