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Activists Protest North Carolina's Turn to Right-Wing Extremism

PSN on May 4, 2013 - 12:00pm

No state is seeing a bigger and more devastating deluge of right-wing legislation move this year than North Carolina, where a tea-party-controlled legislature has been advancing bills alternatively dangerous and absurd -- and sometimes both. A voter ID proposal is just the latest to gain national attention, as residents of all fifty states get a glimpse of what an unfettered conservative movement in a state actually looks like, and activists in North Carolina raise the temperature in protest:

Radical Right-Wing Tax Plans Run Into Trouble

PSN on April 13, 2013 - 10:01am
Taxes are on the minds of many this week as April 15th approaches. They're also on the minds of many conservative governors -- in states such as Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Nebraska -- who have seen their radical tax proposals to further enrich corporations and the wealthy run into major resistance from voters, businesses, and even conservative lawmakers. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who this week withdrew his regressive plan that would have eliminated the state income tax while raising the sales tax, has seen his standing drop sharply in the polls. In the run up to Tax Day, increasing attention is being focused on how tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations increase burdens on the middle class.

Parents Trigger Defeat of "Parent Trigger" Bills

PSN on April 6, 2013 - 10:01am

For-profit charter school companies and their allies were hoping to push so-called "parent trigger" bills this year in over a dozen states -- bills which purport to "empower" parents of poor-performing schools by allowing them to vote to turn over their neighborhood schools to private companies. But in state after state, parents themselves have been pushing back.

Latest Conservative Punching Bag: The Jobless

PSN on February 23, 2013 - 12:04pm

With the debate in D.C. currently centered around exactly how much more federal budget austerity to enact, and with the budget sequester threatening 750,000 jobs nationwide looking more and more likely to go into effect March 1st, the jobless also continue to be under attack in the states. This week, one state signed devastating cuts to their unemployment insurance system into law, another advanced a restructuring of their system that would endanger their federal funding, and efforts to ban employer discrimination against the jobless ran into the veto pen of a billionaire big-city mayor:

SCOTUS to Take Center Stage on Voting Rights Act, Marriage Equality

PSN on February 23, 2013 - 12:02pm

In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two high-profile challenges affecting states directly: Shelby County v. Holder, a challenge to the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, as well as two cases on same-sex marriage. Arguments in the Voting Rights Act case are scheduled for February 27th, while arguments in the two marriage cases, Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor, are set for late March. States and the Obama administration are already filing briefs in advance of both cases. At the same time, efforts to advance marriage equality continued this week in state legislatures including Minnesota and New Jersey:

Opposition to Obamacare Shows Signs of Weakening

PSN on January 26, 2013 - 10:02am

With a Supreme Court decision and a presidential election now come and gone, conservatives in many states seem to be having second thoughts about their opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, progressive lawmakers in Iowa and Michigan signaled they were set to introduce legislation on Medicaid expansion:

"Anti-Tax" Conservatives Propose Shifting Tax Burden to Middle Class, Low-Income Families

PSN on January 26, 2013 - 10:01am

Governors and lawmakers who call themselves "anti-tax" are kicking off new state legislative sessions by proposing drastic cuts or even the elimination of state income taxes — offset by increases in sales taxes that would hit the middle class and low-income families and which would do nothing to boost state economies:

Ethics rules for fracking board? (includes list of new state energy board members)

Anonymous on August 10, 2012 - 4:03pm

The State Ethics Commission will likely wait until November to decide if members of the state’s new rule-making body for fracking will have to follow state ethics rules.
The delay comes as questions are being raised publicly by the environment … Read More...

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Medicare and Medicaid costs continue to rise slower than private insurance

Anonymous on August 10, 2012 - 11:52am

Paul Van de Water, one of the top budget wonks at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, has a worth-reading post at Off the Charts this morning.
“Medicare and Medicaid spending per beneficiary has grown less rapidly than costs for … Read More...

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DNC Chair says Nate Silver is wrong about North Carolina (Video)

Anonymous on August 10, 2012 - 9:40am

The Raleigh political world was buzzing this week about a post Tuesday night by Nate Silver of New York Times on his Five Thirty Eight blog about the presidential race in North Carolina.
Silver said that he thinks North Carolina … Read More...

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