How will voters vote on Nov. 4? I can’t tell you if they’ll turn out for Democrats or Republicans or whether they’ll vote their pocketbooks or their values. But I can give you an idea of how voters will cast their ballots—literally—come Election Day.

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Missouri voters will determine on Election Day whether their governor will retain the power to withhold money when revenues fail to meet their projected targets.

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October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As recent news stories have shown, the issue of domestic and family violence remains prevalent.

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Transportation policy debates and headlines have consumed their fair share of public policy oxygen in 2014.

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Interpretive and substantive rules. What is the difference? The U.S. Supreme Court will decide this issue in Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association. 

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Nationally, legislative turnover is expected to be within the usual range of 19 to 20 percent this year.

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Just last week the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released "Issues Related to State Voter Identification Laws." The authors, program evaluators for the federal government, spent a year digging deep, deep down on some key questions.

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Karl Kurtz has been a leading voice for state legislatures and NCSL, even before there was an NCSL. Kurtz, director of NCSL’s Trust for Representative Democracy, is retiring after 42 years on the job and was feted during a staff luncheon Thursday at NCSL's Denver office.

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Who are the children who are dual langage learners? Researcher Tamara Halle presented a recent webinar to NCSL's  Early Learning Fellows answering that very question and also explaining the latest social and emotional development research related to dual language learners

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The majority of the attention during the Great American Beer Festival in Denver festival was focused on the 268 medals awarded to commercial brewers and three Pro-Am medals. The real beer battle, however, brewed between the bipartisan legislator teams from the Colorado House of Representatives and Senate for the first Hop the Vote Beer-Tasting Competition.

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