In the lead- up to election season, we want to celebrate the women in state legislatures today. The Women’s Legislative Network is seeking nominees by June 30 for the third annual Women in Politics Making a Difference Awards.

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Juvenile justice was the focus when legislators, senior executive branch staff and state budget officials from 15 states gathered in Chicago last month  to exchange ideas for cross-collaboration and discuss current juvenile justice issues with national and local experts.

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The Senate of Virginia’s program, geared towards 13- and 14-year-olds, is unique in many ways: It’s long (full time for seven to nine weeks), students live in a hotel supervised by chaperones, it includes a tutoring program, involves several staff, and enlists community partners such as the Virginia Credit Union—for a class on money management—and Central Virginia Food Bank, the location for the community service project.

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In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court held 8-1 that applying Minnesota’s revocation-on-divorce statute to a life insurance beneficiary designation made before the statute’s enactment does not violate the Constitution’s Contracts Clause.

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At age 11, Xavier McElrath-Bey joined a gang, feeling safer in the streets than in his own home. Growing up on Chicago’s South Side, he was surrounded by poverty, drugs and crime. In 1989, McElrath-Bey was sentenced to 25 years in adult prison for his involvement in a gang-related murder. He was 13 years old.

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In Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Ohio’s processes of removing people from the voter rolls does not violate federal law.

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NCSL’s Natural Resources and Infrastructure Committee, with jurisdiction over transportation, environment, energy and agriculture issues, is pleased to announce its annual Spring Webinar Series beginning May 3, and continuing through June 28.

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Legislatures in more than half of the states have considered more than 100 bills to increase transportation funding, either by increasing motor fuels taxes or other mechanisms, in hopes of providing additional resources for maintaining, operating and upgrading transportation networks, not to mention enabling any new financing options that may come to fruition.

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Elections are at the core of American democracy, but even after 200 years we still haven’t worked out all the kinks. And Tuesday’s so-called “Super Tuesday” primaries in eight states were no exception.

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With unemployment at the lowest level in a generation, the critically low number of job seekers leaves many employers unable to fill job openings and meet their customer demands.

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