… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. The 1,400-page plus omnibus bill that the Minnesota Legislature passed in the ...

Indiana’s Constitution mandates that every bill stick to one subject. And yet, each session we see “shell bills” hijacked after deadlines, gutted and refilled with unrelated material behind closed ...

For more than 150 years, a constitutional requirement that limits legislative bills to a single subject has existed in Illinois. It was in the 1870 Constitution (“No act hereafter passed shall embrace ...

How to shine the healing light of transparency on this morass, a masterpiece of back-room dealings refined over the years by a tiny cadre of Statehouse bosses? There is one way. Ohioans are left with ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Before South Dakota voters approved Amendment A in the 2020 election, voters approved Amendment Z in 2018. That vote changed South Dakota’s Constitution to require any ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Planned Parenthood lost at the Nebraska Supreme Court in its challenge to a bill that restricts gender-altering care for minors and abortion services. The state’s high court found no ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - What if Ohio’s budget was just that — a spending plan — rather than a massive vehicle for legislators to stuff with law changes? We’re talking about the history of how the budget ...

Trying to analyze the Big Beautiful Bill made me think of Wilbur Stone. The name Wilbur Stone probably doesn’t mean much, even to students of Colorado History. But Stone had a major role in drafting ...