February 03, 2012
By Gene Meyer | Kansas Reporter
TOPEKA — Kansas tax hawks shrieked over the state’s dead-center ranking of its business climate.
But the ranking was better than the same survey in 2011 conducted by the nonpartisan Tax Foundationresearch organization in Washington, D.C. The 2012 survey was released Jan. 26.
Tags: business, foundation, friendly, Policy, reduction, tax
February 02, 2012
By Lynn Campbell | IowaPolitics.com DES MOINES — If students enrolled at Iowa’s state universities have to pay higher tuition, university presidents should share the pain, some House Republicans said.
Tags: Board, freeman, Iowa, Jeff, Jeremy, Kaufmann, Mary, Mascher, Northern, of, President, regents, salary, Spencer, State, Steven, Taylor, tuition, universities, university, Walrath
February 02, 2012
By Stacy Brown | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — A small group of Chester Upland School District parents came to the Capitol on Thursday to deliver a big message to Gov. Tom Corbett.
Tags: Chester, corbett, distressed, education, petition, Upland
February 01, 2012
By Kirsten Adshead and Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON — If labor unions’ strength lies in numbers, a new report indicates unions’ most powerful days may be behind them.
Tags: bargaining, Bureau, collective, Kleefisch, labor, of, recall, Statistics, union, Walker
January 31, 2012
By Stacy Brown | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s students’ performance is improving, but the state needs to do much better with school choice initiatives, according to a national report card.
Tags: ALEC, card, clymer, education, report, roebuck, schools