State Policy
August 2, 2013 -
In legislatures from North Carolina to Texas, lawmakers are targeting women's constitutional right to end unwanted pregnancies.
August 1, 2013 -
Across the South, Republican governors and state legislatures have turned down federal funding to expand Medicaid, excluding millions of uninsured, working-poor residents from health care coverage -- and missing an opportunity to shift costs away from expensive emergency-room care.
July 31, 2013 -
From Arkansas to North Carolina, Mississippi to Florida, elected leaders are speaking out and taking action against laws that would restrict citizens' access to the ballot.
July 30, 2013 -
The NAACP is asking the state supreme court to throw out political district lines that it says were improperly shaped by race -- and it's willing to take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
July 29, 2013 -
A bill that would have allowed North Carolina to issue fracking permits before all of the regulations were in place failed to pass, but lawmakers approved a measure that requires the state to join with Virginia and South Carolina to promote offshore energy development.
July 26, 2013 -
The U.S. Supreme Court may have struck down one provision of the Voting Rights Act, but the Department of Justice is turning to another to sue Texas over its discriminatory redistricting law.
July 19, 2013 -
The Republican-led legislature has dramatically overhauled North Carolina's tax code, but not everyone will benefit from the changes.
