The Democratic Party has finally learned its lesson. It is no longer ignoring state government , and this year expects to make major gains in state legislatures all over the United States. By letting Republicans take control of over two-thirds of state governments over the past ten years Democrats have placed themselves on the outside…
Brownback’s latest trickle down approach to make up for gross revenue shortfalls “crippling the state’s finances” include cutting classroom funding for schools by another $127 million, cutting state payments to pension funds by $446 million, and stealing about $350 million from the state’s transportation department funding.
A new study by Filipe Campante of the Harvard Kennedy School and Quoc-Anh Do of Singapore Management University found that “isolated capital cities are associated with greater levels of corruption.”