May 8, 2025 From Messenger to Mentor: Mechelle Evans' Five-Decade Journey in the Louisiana Legislature When Mechelle Evans took a job with the Louisiana State Legislature as a full-time messenger in 1980, she had no idea it was the first step in a career that would span five decades—and counting. People, Legislative Staff, Profiles State Legislatures News
May 5, 2025 Knowing Her ‘Why’ Has Helped Her Mentor Staffers Across Party Lines Veteran Alaska legislative staffer Aurora Hauke helps build relationships and nurture connections in a state known for its bipartisan and multipartisan coalitions. NCSL spoke with Hauke for its series “Profiles in Service.” State Legislatures News, People, Legislative Staff, Profiles State Legislatures News
May 5, 2025 Utah Lawmakers Are Grateful He Caught the ‘Bug for Budgeting’ With his knack for technology, fiscal analyst Jonathan Ball has modernized the Utah Legislature’s appropriations process and empowered lawmakers to answer their own research questions. NCSL spoke with Ball for its series “Profiles in... State Legislatures News, People, Legislative Staff, Profiles State Legislatures News
May 5, 2025 How to Celebrate NCSL’s Legislative Staff Week Every day, you and your colleagues work behind the scenes to support the work of state legislatures. From drafting bills to making statehouses accessible to the public to keeping computer networks secure, legislatures couldn’t function... State Legislatures News, Legislative Staff, NCSL Resources State Legislatures News
May 10, 2025 Legislative Staff Week Shoutouts 2025 Recognize your colleagues with a shoutout or two and be entered to win! Prizes will be awarded each day, including four free registrations for this fall’s NCSL Base Camp, an online policy learning and professional development... Legislative Staff
May 2, 2025 When It Comes to the Budget, She Tells the Cold, Hard Truth Amy Carlson took a circuitous route to her current role as director of Montana’s Legislative Fiscal Division. An early interest in math and economics started her on a roundabout path to state budgeting work. NCSL spoke to Carlson as part of... State Legislatures News, People, Legislative Staff, Profiles State Legislatures News