ALBANY — The State Legislature next week is scheduled to vote on a $254 billion state budget that was due more than a month ago and negotiated behind closed doors. The details of what's in it won't ...

Editor of the Indiana Capital Chronicle Niki Kelly recently shared why the end of the legislative session is her least favorite season. Kelly wonders why the democratic processes that are embraced ...

Over the course of 82 days, a little over 1,000 bills were introduced to the Idaho Legislature. Making it difficult to fully ...

That means they should know what they're voting on, constituents should have a reasonable chance to weigh in, and the process shouldn't be engineered to minimize scrutiny. These aren't ideological ...

Two Kansas medical professionals sat for an hour at an early morning committee hearing in mid-March, waiting their turn to ...