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Archived Stateline.org Stories from 2006


January 2006


01/02/2006 - Katrina alters vista for Barbour, Blanco
01/02/2006 - The immigration dilemma: A CEO's solution
01/04/2006 - Education reform shows modest results
01/05/2006 - Governors' 2006 State of the State speeches
01/05/2006 - Legislative prayer stirs church-state issues
01/06/2006 - States push taxpayers to file online
01/06/2006 - States push taxpayers to file online
01/07/2006 - Govs prep for high-profile speeches
01/10/2006 - States eye stem cell research economics
01/10/2006 - Managing our borders: Not another 'war,' please!
01/11/2006 - Education quandary: curbing dropouts
01/12/2006 - Katrina chaos spurs new disaster planning
01/13/2006 - A history of recent U.S. disasters
01/17/2006 - Md. vote may pave way for 'Wal-Mart' bills
01/18/2006 - 2006 puts state issues in limelight
01/19/2006 - Teen drivers kill many more
01/19/2006 - School choice: Besting the lobbies
01/20/2006 - States lead way on minimum wage hikes
01/20/2006 - Rundown of statehouse ethics scandals
01/23/2006 - Scandals alter pols' tunes; will voters listen?
01/23/2006 - Rundown of statehouse ethics scandals
01/24/2006 - Lawmakers crusade against molesters
01/24/2006 - Katrina paradox: Calamity but fresh ideas
01/26/2006 - State of education: Who makes the grade?
01/27/2006 - Govs try to help working uninsured
01/30/2006 - Abortion foes split on state bans
01/31/2006 - Rising revenues spur tax cuts, spending


February 2006


02/01/2006 - State legislative battles take shape for '06
02/02/2006 - Medicaid cuts, welfare reform target poor
02/03/2006 - Feds pinch state welfare programs
02/04/2006 - States, feds go after online records brokers
02/06/2006 - Bush budget cuts education
02/06/2006 - Feds aim to keep Medicaid costs in check
02/06/2006 - Bush budget short on state aid
02/08/2006 - Faltering U.S. Competitiveness -- Blame To Go All Around
02/08/2006 - Federal red ink shrinks money for states
02/09/2006 - Molesters confined even after jail time is up
02/10/2006 - State of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Address
02/10/2006 - Towns caught in clash over Net access
02/10/2006 - Untitled
02/13/2006 - 2006 puts state-level issues in limelight
02/14/2006 - Report: 9 states may lose under Bush plan
02/14/2006 - 'Energy Federalism' -- Has Its Time Come?
02/15/2006 - Child-support enforcement takes hit
02/16/2006 - New law pushes long-term care coverage
02/17/2006 - Road funding takes a toll on states
02/21/2006 - Border debate shifts to employers
02/22/2006 - Report: States tax low-income families
02/22/2006 - State surpluses a boon to education
02/23/2006 - Getting students college-ready is top state goal
02/23/2006 - Rx import sites fizzle as Medicare expands
02/24/2006 - Governors to meet with President Bush
02/24/2006 - REAL ID -- Real Questions
02/25/2006 - Bush's Federalistas: A Threat To The States -- And Us?
02/26/2006 - Health costs weigh heavily on govs
02/27/2006 - Governors wary of plans for National Guard


March 2006


03/01/2006 - Governors keep it light, except in cooking
03/01/2006 - Western govs back Bush guest-worker plan
03/01/2006 - Govs demand info on Guard changes
03/02/2006 - New electoral college reform measure: light at the end of a long, dark tunnel?
03/02/2006 - In their own words: Govs share visions
03/03/2006 - Picking No. 2 becomes No. 1 priority
03/04/2006 - Teacher pay reform challenges states
03/06/2006 - Big bonds, big infrastructure: How do we afford it all?
03/07/2006 - Retirees boosting states' rural economies
03/08/2006 - U.S. House votes to nullify 200 state food laws
03/09/2006 - States urged to curb senior tax breaks
03/10/2006 - Job benefits for gay partners targeted
03/13/2006 - Food tax on chopping block
03/14/2006 - Infrastructure signal: First stop, look -- and think
03/14/2006 - Ex-jocks lead diverse field of candidates
03/15/2006 - State parks reeling from budget drought
03/16/2006 - Eminent domain outcry pierces statehouses
03/17/2006 - State revenues -- weakest growth in 2 yrs.
03/20/2006 - Wages, gay marriage could tilt '06 ballots
03/21/2006 - NY wants a better no-fault divorce law
03/22/2006 - Moves afoot to shed light on hospital costs
03/23/2006 - Death penalty: lethal injection on trial
03/24/2006 - Evangelicals flex political muscle
03/27/2006 - Punch cards out, paper trails in
03/27/2006 - Boston's "Pilot Schools" -- Breakthrough formula for cities?
03/28/2006 - Fewer choosing teaching jobs
03/29/2006 - State AGs to guard tobacco funds
03/30/2006 - States seek relief from new welfare rules
03/31/2006 - Houston's engaging 'Flower Man' and the 'shifting sands' of neighborhoods
03/31/2006 - Immigration poll: Target work, not border


April 2006


04/04/2006 - Colorado is hot spot for politicking by 527s
04/05/2006 - Vermont leads pack in taxes per person
04/05/2006 - Unfunded state pensions: Who'll pay the piper?
04/06/2006 - Alaska No. 1 in 'pork' per capita, again
04/06/2006 - Legislators sound warning on federal rules
04/07/2006 - Soaring state revenues beat expectations
04/10/2006 - 42 states foresee a surplus this fiscal year
04/11/2006 - No red ink showing on state ledgers
04/12/2006 - States chart their own foreign policy
04/13/2006 - N.J. sees red despite rising revenues
04/14/2006 - Marches spark state migrant debates
04/17/2006 - Internet becoming campaign mainstay
04/18/2006 - Project to vet education reports for bias
04/19/2006 - Tenn. retools its health coverage
04/20/2006 - New Orleans' throttled future
04/20/2006 - Back from Iraq, govs praise troops
04/20/2006 - Report questions severity of dropout crisis
04/21/2006 - Mumps outbreak tests pandemic plans
04/24/2006 - Virginia accelerates telework program
04/25/2006 - Term limits take out legislative leaders
04/26/2006 - Hurricane perils: A way to live with nature?
04/26/2006 - More states sanction deadly force
04/26/2006 - 2006 Primary Schedule
04/27/2006 - U.S. insurance bill upsets states
04/28/2006 - States open wallets, tackle big agendas


May 2006


05/02/2006 - Guard under-equipped for hurricanes
05/03/2006 - S.D. voters may decide abortion ban
05/04/2006 - World oil prices ripple through state capitols
05/05/2006 - Bright ideas compete for cash
05/08/2006 - NJ rejects self-service gas
05/09/2006 - Can Mass. health plan work elsewhere?
05/10/2006 - Power blogging debuts in Utah capitol
05/11/2006 - Pa. gov's race in spotlight
05/12/2006 - Gas price gouging tough to gauge
05/15/2006 - States promote nursing, protect moms
05/16/2006 - The May 1 demonstrations: Historic turning point?
05/16/2006 - Court allows smokestack chasing -- for now
05/17/2006 - Border plan reignites an old debate
05/18/2006 - Governors push access to preschool
05/19/2006 - Primaries feed incumbents' jitters
05/20/2006 - States suing feds over seniors' Rx costs
05/23/2006 - 48 states raking in gambling proceeds
05/23/2006 - America: A 'prison nation'?
05/24/2006 - Texas pharmacist to head NCSL
05/25/2006 - States expand kinship care programs
05/26/2006 - States open wallets, tackle big agendas
05/29/2006 - Green Alchemy
05/31/2006 - Once, twice, three times a gov?


June 2006


06/01/2006 - Lawmakers set new ages for marriage
06/02/2006 - Govs' hiring under fire
06/05/2006 - AGs hope to snuff "little cigars"
06/05/2006 - Floods, the feds -- and state-local America
06/06/2006 - States want cash for costs of illegals
06/07/2006 - Results of June 6 state primaries
06/07/2006 - States fight meth plague with registries
06/08/2006 - SD abortion ban reverberates in election
06/09/2006 - Meth abuse lands more kids in state care
06/11/2006 - Violent sex crimes: Free the children!
06/12/2006 - State Dems ask: 'What's in your wallet?'
06/13/2006 - Gas pipeline dispute fuels wild Alaska race
06/14/2006 - Results of June 13 primary
06/15/2006 - 7 states woo clean-coal power plant
06/16/2006 - States' tax revenue solid in early 2006
06/16/2006 - Govs want say on Guard changes
06/19/2006 - Govs to grads: Dream big and vote for me
06/20/2006 - States scramble to follow Medicaid ID law
06/20/2006 - Report: 70% of high schoolers graduate
06/21/2006 - Indian casinos boon to tribes and states
06/22/2006 - States probe limits of abortion policy
06/23/2006 - States work to narrow teacher equity gap
06/26/2006 - Violence, illness, desperation: The jailbreak we won't discuss
06/27/2006 - Legislators help pets in disasters
06/28/2006 - Accounting rule could bust state budgets
06/29/2006 - New state laws roll out July 1
06/30/2006 - Will states require cancer vaccine?


July 2006


07/05/2006 - Atlanta's strange formula: 23 lanes of 'congestion mitigation'
07/05/2006 - Cycle safety is second-class
07/06/2006 - Lt gov: Not quite a fifth wheel
07/07/2006 - Statehouse elections 2006: The end of parity?
07/07/2006 - State DOTs hope drivers see dots
07/09/2006 - States retool welfare under new TANF rules
07/10/2006 - Re-exploring the Hudson -- and regionalism in America
07/11/2006 - States, SEC work to protect elderly investors
07/12/2006 - States failing to secure personal data
07/13/2006 - Utah to use gifts to pay for Medicaid
07/14/2006 - School just a click away
07/17/2006 - Property taxes emerge as election issue
07/17/2006 - Reforming American politics: A timely 'one stop' guide
07/18/2006 - Maryland pol still beloved and bedeviling
07/19/2006 - Governors plan attack on avian flu
07/20/2006 - Stem cell wars rage in state capitols
07/24/2006 - Law and order dilemma: Who checks the prosecutors?
07/25/2006 - States step in to fill feds' role (continued)
07/25/2006 - States step in to fill feds' role
07/26/2006 - Hawaii adopts new school funding
07/26/2006 - States step into welfare privatization quagmire
07/26/2006 - 2006 interactive elections guide
07/27/2006 - States collecting DNA from arrestees
07/27/2006 - States step in to fill feds' role
07/27/2006 - 2006 interactive elections guide
07/28/2006 - States silence musical copycats
07/30/2006 - Global warming cures: Time to harvest ocean power?
07/31/2006 - States, feds partner on English testing


August 2006


08/01/2006 - Colorado elections in national spotlight
08/02/2006 - States seek to save umbilical cord blood
08/03/2006 - Wages, property rights on '06 ballots
08/03/2006 - Medicaid: Biggest insurer is a budget buster
08/04/2006 - States stumble privatizing social services
08/07/2006 - Big coal burning plants: Perilous and outmoded?
08/07/2006 - Napolitano thrives in GOP stronghold
08/08/2006 - Statehouse reporters honored for stories
08/08/2006 - Govs' anger with feds boils over
08/09/2006 - Two states drop out of new dropout plan
08/10/2006 - Report: States fail in devising teacher equity plans
08/10/2006 - Tourism incentives get tri-state tryout
08/11/2006 - Gay activists hopeful in Colo., S.D., Wis.
08/12/2006 - Secretaries of state: Flashpoint in '06?
08/14/2006 - Philadelphia's 'green' formula for swimmable, drinkable water
08/15/2006 - Boom time for state finances
08/16/2006 - Report chronicles downside of term limits
08/17/2006 - Democrats have edge in statehouse races
08/18/2006 - New ploys devised to boost voter turnout
08/21/2006 - Tuition hikes smaller than in past years
08/22/2006 - States expand fetal homicide laws
08/23/2006 - Katrina, Rita create unexpected boom
08/24/2006 - New look, new features at Stateline.org
08/24/2006 - First salvos prepared for statehouse redistricting battles
08/25/2006 - Strictest immigration laws put to the test
08/28/2006 - In latest cycle, liberals leaning toward states' rights
08/28/2006 - Designing an 'exit strategy' for the war on drugs
08/28/2006 - Crime lab backlogs extend beyond DNA
08/29/2006 - Affirmative action on Michigan ballot
08/29/2006 - Issue-oriented blogs
08/29/2006 - State-oriented blogs
08/30/2006 - States ranked on pocketbook issues
08/30/2006 - State data resources
08/31/2006 - States fall short on academic standards


September 2006


09/01/2006 - States go global for road-safety ideas
09/05/2006 - Bush plays key role in govs' races
09/05/2006 - Global warming challenge: Think like it's 2050
09/06/2006 - FDA ruling puts pharmacists in crossfire
09/06/2006 - Untitled
09/07/2006 - States score low marks in higher ed
09/07/2006 - Wis. AG election a race to the bottom
09/07/2006 - Stateline.org's news roundup sources
09/08/2006 - Bumpy ride for incumbent govs
09/11/2006 - Arkansas leads in low-income assisted living
09/12/2006 - Nine states hold primaries today
09/13/2006 - Incumbent AG, comptroller lose in primaries
09/13/2006 - Feds ignore state anti-terror intelligence
09/13/2006 - Breathing hope instead of fear: Sept. 11's other anniversary
09/14/2006 - 2006 is year of surpluses, social issues
09/19/2006 - Single-gender schools on the rise
09/20/2006 - For Texas speaker, suite gets sweeter
09/21/2006 - Too little time, too much cost for Real ID
09/22/2006 - Minimum-wage hikes sweep states
09/26/2006 - Property rights a popular question on ballots
09/28/2006 - Politicking 527s target states, not Congress
09/29/2006 - Voters set to judge property rights


October 2006


10/02/2006 - Lame ducks ruffle feathers in 3 statehouses
10/03/2006 - Heavy mistrust of elections' honesty -- but where's the groundswell for reform?
10/03/2006 - Patients key to latest Medicaid reforms
10/04/2006 - Registration drives go down to the wire
10/05/2006 - Stem cell debate goes to voters
10/06/2006 - Buyer beware of toxic meth-lab homes
10/10/2006 - State politicians discover YouTube
10/11/2006 - Medicaid growth slows, for a bit
10/12/2006 - Florida charts future after Jeb Bush
10/13/2006 - Cal. law blocks transfer of 'lemon' teachers
10/16/2006 - Kids' snack food modeled after state law
10/16/2006 - Historic election year in gov races
10/17/2006 - More states sold on reforming gift cards
10/18/2006 - Anti-tax ballot box revolt stifled
10/19/2006 - Calif., Ore. voters to decide parental notice
10/20/2006 - Ballot blunders abound as election nears
10/22/2006 - Reducing the crime rate -- a dramatic new formula
10/23/2006 - Voucher groups seek to oust opponents
10/24/2006 - Biz groups dominate judicial races
10/25/2006 - Minnesota gov fears GOP backlash
10/29/2006 - Where do we put the next hundred million?
10/30/2006 - Statehouse power at stake in '06
10/30/2006 - State races: But wait, there's more!


November 2006


11/02/2006 - Lawmakers go AWOL when military calls
11/03/2006 - Immigration hardliners trailing in Ariz., Colo.
11/04/2006 - Election '06 -- GOP edge at stake
11/05/2006 - Stunning new prescription for America's Great Lakes 'megaregion'
11/05/2006 - Longer ballots pose many questions
11/06/2006 - Impassioned voters head for polls
11/07/2006 - Winners in '06 governors' races
11/07/2006 - Govs -- Dems gaining on GOP
11/08/2006 - Democrats take majority of governorships
11/08/2006 - S.D. abortion ban, Ariz. gay marriage ban fail
11/08/2006 - Democratic wave washes over statehouses
11/08/2006 - Democratic swell buoys attorneys general
11/10/2006 - Dems grab state balance of power
11/12/2006 - Voters wisely shun ill-advised initiatives
11/14/2006 - States hope for better deal in new Congress
11/14/2006 - Turnabout overdue in state-federal relations
11/15/2006 - Congress, states pledge wage hikes
11/16/2006 - Medicaid directors frustrated by feds
11/17/2006 - Voting blunder puts Florida in spotlight again
11/19/2006 - A 100-mile Thanksgiving -- are you ready to buy local?
11/20/2006 - Govs want action on immigration, health care
11/21/2006 - New Fla. speaker takes office with 100 ideas
11/22/2006 - Three new govs look ahead to 2007
11/26/2006 - As we add millions, how do we stay mobile?
11/28/2006 - Report: States need to step up on higher ed
11/29/2006 - Pa., N.C. results solidify Dems' control
11/30/2006 - Election glitches impede voters nationwide


December 2006


12/01/2006 - Will Congress patch up kids' coverage?
12/03/2006 - Transit -- Popular and expanding but a half-loaf without compact growth
12/04/2006 - NC Speaker Black ekes out re-election
12/05/2006 - States break out gift cards for the holidays
12/06/2006 - States expand Food Stamp programs
12/07/2006 - Stable revenues, but declining optimism
12/08/2006 - Lt. govs have pathway to top
12/09/2006 - Anti-sex-offender zoning laws challenged
12/10/2006 - The other "war" -- we keep on losing
12/11/2006 - 2007 State of the state speeches
12/12/2006 - Congress fixes state health programs, for now
12/12/2006 - How do we develop in a radically altered world?
12/12/2006 - Seven states win federal tax-break extension
12/13/2006 - Boomers answer call to service
12/13/2006 - Report: Achievement gap still wide
12/14/2006 - With fat wallets, states spent more in FY '06
12/15/2006 - Report: U.S. schools need radical fixes
12/15/2006 - NJ gay couples get civil unions
12/18/2006 - Violence in Sudan pushes states to act
12/19/2006 - Coast Guard broaches state boat licenses
12/20/2006 - The ball drops here: new laws for '07
12/21/2006 - Season's greetings
12/24/2006 - Great new towns -- gift to a nation?
12/26/2006 - Surpluses, social issues mark 2006
12/28/2006 - States think big on health reform
12/29/2006 - Govs jog, fly and dance for inaugurals



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