Host Tim Storey’s guest for this episode is Leonor Ehling, the executive director of the Center for California Studies at Sacramento State University and co-director of the Legislative Staff Management Institute (LSMI), which is a flagship...

Young students in New Mexico made history when they convinced lawmakers that the smell of roasting chilis should be the state's official aroma. They researched, wrote letters, testified in hearings and celebrated when the Governor signed the...

We sat down with Pam Shaw, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center, to discuss the decline in childhood vaccination rates over the past couple of years and how the pandemic may have affected that. Also on the show is...

Two experts on juvenile justice join the podcast to discuss how legislatures are dealing with the issue and how a new report on youth incarceration report points to a number of reasons why locking up young people does not make society safer and...

On this episode, host Tim Storey sits down with Paul Danczyk, director of Executive Education in Sacramento for the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy and co-director of the Legislative Staff Management Institute,...

State legislators increasingly are promoting civility and bipartisanship. One trainer says, “Civility is not just good manners, it's really being able to get something done.” We’ll discuss how that work is going and why...