Retiring colleagues, stagnant salaries and intensifying partisanship are top concerns of legislative staffers.

Mark Wolf is a senior editor at NCSL. He edits reports, stories, webpages and other communications and covers live sessions of NCSL’s Legislative Summit, Base Camp and other events. Before joining NCSL in 2012 he wrote for newspapers.

The Florida Senate has been working hard to make its website one of the best in the country. And it paid off. The Florida Senate took home the Online Democracy Award for producing a superior legislative website, presented  this week during...

Discover the prevalence of family duos serving in other states, including siblings, spouses, and parent-child combos. Multi-member districts like New Hampshire see more of these teams, but they can happen anywhere.

Barring a last-minute compromise, the federal government will shutdown on April 9 with the expiration of the sixth continuing resolution passed for FY 2011. Without legislation to provide appropriations, the federal government cannot make or...

Being ethical goes beyond just following the law. Alaska’s code of ethics states the obvious: “High moral and ethical standards among public servants in the legislative branch of government are essential to assure the trust, respect,...