While some reformers believe that campaign finance reform will cure many of the ills of our election process, others feel the key is proportional representation,...
A widely publicized study claims that there is no evidence that Wal-Mart has had a negative impact on the small business sector. In reviewing the...
Genetically Modified Organisms have raised questions of safety across the world.… Read More
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...
On October 25, 1999 the Bangor ME (population 33,000) City Council passed a selective purchasing policy, establishing guidelines for buying clothing, footwear and other products...
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...
Cambridge’s nine City Councillors and six School Committee members are elected at large by Proportional Representation (PR) for a two year term. Any partly or...
In Amarillo, Texas, which is is 16 percent Latino and 6 percent black, a minority had not been elected to the school board since the...
Fiber-to-the-home is essential infrastructure. Communities know they need better broadband networks. DSL is already too slow, especially on the upload side. DOCSIS3 cable networks may...
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...
After a particularly serious chlorine dioxide leak, which could have injured thousands of workers had they been in the factory, the town selectmen instructed the...
In May 1998, President Clinton issued Executive Order 13083 on Federalism. Its centralizing language generated such a firestorm of opposition from conservatives and state and...
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...
On occasion, governments at the local, state and federal level make purchasing policies that take factors besides price into consideration. For instance, some state and...
The New England town meeting and school district meeting are the only direct democracy institutions in the United States involving lawmaking by assembled voters. Law...