This Massachusetts law was passed by ballot initiative in 1998, but repealed by the legislature as part of a budget package in 2003. Governor Mitt...
Maine’s campaign finance law, known as the Clean Elections Act is different from those in other states because those who agree to accept public funding...
In the wake of numerous high-profile state and municipal campaign scandals, the Connecticut legislature, in 2005, established the Citizens Election Program and corresponding Citizen Election...
In Arizona, candidates who agree to accept very low amounts of private money receive a fixed and limited amount of public funds. A five-member, non-partisan...
As Greg LeRoy (GoodJobsFirst)points out, “As states grapple with their worst deficits in more than half a century, policymakers seek better data to help with...
The state of Illinois had a semi-proportional voting system to elect the lower House from 1870 to 1980. This was a minor modification of the...
Fed up with repeated state preemption of local laws, Michigan cities have spearheaded a campaign to require a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, rather than...
Idaho was the first state to mandate in-state processing for logs harvested from state forests. Since becoming a state in 1890, Idaho has required all...
Texas has created a Unified Development Budget — an annual statement to the legislature with all forms of spending itemized in one place. All tax...
Montana had a ban on corporate contributions to ballot issue campaigns until 1976, when it was thrown out by the courts. In 1996, however, Montana...
Logging communities (or agricultural and mining communities in general) gain little when their principal resource is exported unprocessed. In the case of wood, every million...
Vermont’s Worker Cooperative Corporations Act. (Added 1985).… Read More
Massachusetts law governing employee ownership.… Read More
Any 3 or more natural persons or 2 or more associations may incorporate in this State under this cooperative ownership statute.… Read More
Connecticut’s law governing the formation and operation of worker cooperatives.… Read More