One should always be weary when a legislator is trying to increase or decrease the number of people necessary to make a petition successfully appear on a ballot. When they are trying to reduce the number, it is generally because they have some form of pet project that they want to push through but avoid [...]
The most unenviable task a legislator can face is when they are confronted with a bill that has both good and bad qualities to it. As you can imagine, some sections of a bill can be very good, while others can be very bad. Some of these good or bad aspects can be grand or [...]
Republican delegates got a gift in the mail today – a trifold pamphlet outlining the evils of the so called “Common Core” program in Education, claiming that it is an insidious and underhanded way for the federal guv’met to take over our schools and, therefore, our kid’s fragile little minds! The reality, of course, is that core standards upgrade curriculum so that the [...]