OKLAHOMA CITY – Everywhere you look, people are talking about budget cuts in Oklahoma. This week, an Associated Press article reported that in the state Senate, there is a battle over the state’s $669 million budget shortfall and cuts that would need to be made to senior nutrition programs.
At the end of February, the [...]

Hawaii Reporter
A Review of the Bans and Prohibitions from the 2010 Legislative Session
By Frances Nuar
Bans, prohibitions—call them what you will, the Hawaii State Legislature has been busy hearing a number of bills that if passed will prevent Hawaii residents and visitors from consuming and utilizing products they likely use virtually every [...]

By Trent Seibert
Check out some video clips we’re playing from Texas Watchdog speaking at the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 8 conference that took place this past Saturday in Austin. The theme was “Saving Journalism.”

It wasn’t just Texas Watchdog, of course. There were experts on panels about all sorts of journalism-related topics.

Texas Watchdog spoke on [...]

A bill that would create a public campaign financing pilot program for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals passed the Senate Judiciary Committee and was sent to the Senate floor.
House Bill 4130 creates a public campaign finance program for the 2012 election cycle which would be funded through attorney fees, special court fees and [...]

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
Ridership on Track So Far, But Taxpayer Subsidies are Staggering
While the Northstar Commuter Rail line is meeting its start-up ridership goals so far, it may be an uphill climb to double monthly ridership by September as projected, even with passengers paying just a fraction of the heavily subsidized train’s true cost, according [...]