By Mikel Chavers, CSG Associate Editor Show Missouri the money. The day President Barack Obama’s pen hit the paper as he signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law Feb. 17, the Show Me State pulled the ripcord on a bridge project that would use money from the stimulus. That bridge ...

Larry J. Sabato gazed into his crystal ball Saturday at The Council of State Governments Spring Conference in Lexington, Ky., and not only tackled election reform and the primary system—but also managed to offer his predictions for the 2008 presidential election as well. Sabato’s new book, “A ...

Kentucky has the highest growth rate in state prison population according to the new Pew Center on the States report, “One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008,� released in January. And that means corrections issues are on the minds of Kentucky’s state officials—and many other state official...

It’s the budget, and it’s not good. Not in many states, as governors across the country have highlighted financial problems in their state of the state addresses. New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine put it succinctly when he said: “Pigs will fly over the Statehouse before there’s a realistic level o...