Sentences with word «statehouse»

The light being shone on the predatory behavior of Weinstein and many others resonated at statehouses across the United States, from California to Rhode Island, where women in politics have been speaking out about sexual misconduct they experienced first - hand or witnessed, with victims including legislators, young staffers and interns, lobbyists, and others.

It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

«Any time you take a subset of people and put the burden of them funding education, I can't support that,» he said on Statehouse Blend Kansas.

And the controversy over public pensions is helping to fuel a broader battle in statehouses across the country between public unions and elected leaders who want to curb their influence.

Local lawmakers then voted to remove the flag from statehouse grounds in July 2015.

Erik Arvidson has 12 years of professional writing experience, including six years as a senior reporter at the Massachusetts Statehouse for several suburban dailies, and most recently as PR Manager of a telecommunications company near Boston.

Gov. Cuomo accused a female reporter of doing a «disservice to women» during a press event with statehouse reporters.

The committee is the front line of a legislative push, led by statehouse Republicans, to dismantle North Carolina's big countywide school districts by allowing rich, often white suburbs to secede.

As statehouse reporter Zack Fink notes, many companies that stand to benefit from the LaGuardia project also happen to be big donors to the governor.

Update September 18, 2013: A public hearing will be held on Monday, September 23, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus in Hearing Room 121 on the Ohio Department of Agriculture's proposed regulations for «high volume commercial dog breeders and retailers.

Indianapolis Star education reporter Scott Elliott points out General Assembly members could vote to strip the state superintendent's power over the State Board, making it all the more critical for Ritz to find common ground with statehouse Republicans.

Lieutenant Governor David Patterson, Andrew Cuomo, Shelly Silver, et al are all in; Spitzer will announce from Statehouse steps this noon.

Today's statehouse hearings on the experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth in Massachusetts mark a milestone for a population of young people whose strength, courage, and resilience continue to defy the odds in a culture that still struggles to effectively support them.

A registered therapy dog, Captain Cowpants even helped Lipani rally in favor of the bill at the Utah statehouse during the last legislative session.

Holder is heading up the National Democratic Redistricting Committee that will focus on trying to help the party win statehouses before the new congressional lines are drawn in 2021.

Well, let's talk about the efforts in statehouse races.

Those grants go to hundreds of research and advocacy groups that often work together to amplify the foundation's voice and extend its reach into statehouses, schoolhouses and the U.S. Department of Education.

Additional Resources: Same - sex marriage ruling may inflame rift at Indiana statehouse, June 27, 2015, By Brian Eason, Indy Star More Blog Entries: Nordness v. Faucheux — When Infidelity Destroys a Marriage, June 6, 2015, Indiana Family Law Attorney Blog

A pro-gun rally on the south side of the Kansas Statehouse drew about 200 people to Topeka on Friday morning as students around the country walked out of class to protest gun violence.

Cuomo has pushed through a plan to shield his state residents from tax hikes under the Republican tax law — and Democratic - controlled statehouses across the country are following suit.

De Blasio, whose unfulfilled national ambitions have never been far from the surface, will be in Des Moines in early December preaching the progressive message as the best means for Democrats to win control of statehouses nationwide and, the biggest prize, the U.S. House of Representatives.

Leaked American Legislative Exchange Council documents published by The Guardian recently offered a glimpse into ALEC's financial troubles, spurred by its role in peddling corporate laws through statehouses around the country.

Earlier in the day a handful of teachers affiliated with the education advocacy group Stand for Children invited a half - dozen reporters to Ritz's statehouse office, urging the state superintendent to allow implementation of the Common Core to continue.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the Delegate Assembly on Nov. 18 that the midterm elections earlier in November had put many statehouses firmly in the hands of conservative governors and legislators whose agenda would inflict harm on public schools, unions and working Americans.

He went on to say that if statehouses don't have Democratic governors going up against Republican legislators, then the progressive values will be «taken away at the state levels.»

Sam Zeff covers education for KCUR and the Kansas News Service and is co-host of the political podcast Statehouse Blend Kansas.

«States like ours, we wan na play a huge role in bringing back the White House in «20... we have to win statehouse races, we have to win local races and this is someone whose career has been all about that,» Pepper said.

Walmart said Monday it will no longer sell the Confederate flag or items emblazoned with its likeness in stores or online, a move that came in the hours after South Carolina's governor called for the flag to come down on Statehouse grounds.

Democrats were skeptical saying Statehouse Republicans wasted time on less important issues instead of addressing school safety and problems with the Department of Child Services.

After all, unlike Bennett, she will not work with a governor and statehouse leaders from her own party.

If our reporting on statehouse conversations about what academic standards Indiana will use next have felt pretty abstract, try on this possible consequence of pausing Common Core rollout in Indiana: Tucked into the Office of Management and Budget report state lawmakers will discuss Tuesday is the possibility students could have to take two standardized tests in 2015.

But reformers are still too focused on working statehouse corridors and Capitol Hill; they must reach out and get to work in the grassroots to ensure long - term gains.

She said that the Democratic Party is in the process of developing its comeback strategy after the decimation it suffered on Election Day and in cycles prior, but argued that the party has to focus on winning back statehouses and start with grassroots organizing.

New York is considered one of several statehouses nationally that the left believes can be turned completely Democratic in advance of the next round of congressional redistricting.

So - called «religious freedom» provisions similar to those that caused controversy in Indiana in 2015 are also set to be aired in the Texas statehouse next year.

The Carey Institute is headed by former New York state Senator Seymour Lachman (D - Brooklyn / Staten Island), author of «Three Men in a Room: The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse» (2006) and the upcoming «Hugh Carey and the New York Fiscal Crisis: How America's Empire State Avoided Bankruptcy,» scheduled for release this summer by SUNY Press.

Fielded questions from Statehouse press corps regarding legislation, scheduling and legislative procedures.

We received the below press release from Ed «NJWeedman» Forchion regarding an upcoming event on April 20 at the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton, NJ.

Austin, Texas (CNN)- The divisiveness of the abortion debate was on full display in the Texas statehouse Monday as SB1, also known as the fetal pain bill, was opened to public comment by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz says she just might run for Governor after Statehouse Republicans passed bills this session curbing her authority to oversee...

The hearing comes after a busy year in education policy with statehouses passing laws altering the way teachers are hired and fired; school districts making cuts because of dried - up of stimulus funding; and with Duncan proposing regulatory relief for states burdened by the strictures of the No Child Left Behind act in light of Congress's failure to revamp the legislation.

More than 1,000 Indiana teachers swarmed the Indiana Statehouse Tuesday for a rowdy rally denouncing the sweeping education proposals moving through the Republican - dominated state House and Senate...

Wasserman Schultz has been a close ally of the predatory [payday lending] industry for years, dating back to her time in the Florida statehouse around the turn of the century.

«I think it's wonderful that we're finally having a timeout and a halt,» Crossin told IPBS statehouse reporter Brandon Smith.