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Minnesota should end driver’s license suspensions for failure to pay traffic tickets (MinnPost) * Oklahoma Becomes 30th State To Adopt Environmental 'Audit Privilege' Law (KGOU) State Sen. Nathan Manning: Legislature will address HB 70 (Chronicle-Telegram) Lisa Nelson: Sharing Good Ideas Is the American Way (Caledonian Record) Pipeline Protesters Could Face 20 Years in Prison Under Bill in Texas House (The Teas Observer) Veteran journalist: Can we fix the Electoral College? (The Progressive Pulse) Failure of local right-to-work measures unfortunate, unsurprising (The Hill) CEI Leads Coalition Letter to STB on Competitive Switching Rule (Competitive Enterprise Insititute) No satisfaction (NJBIZ) In Some Pennsylvania Pro-Fracking Corners, Name-calling, False Claims, and Swastika-Laden Images Circulate (DeSmog Blog) A place for the GOP to mull life after Trump (Roll Call) Proposal would let you pay traffic tickets on an installment plan (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) Nancy Martorano Miller: One-party rule in 49 state legislatures reflects flaws in democratic process (Michigan Advance) Preemptive strikes: bags, guns, zoning, and a living wage (High Plains Reader) States Are Trying to Stop Cities From Raising Minimum Wage (Truthout) How the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity Hijacked Alaska’s Tax and Budget Hearings (ExposedbyCMD) Wisconsin’s voters deserve better than model legislation (The Badger Herald) ALEC’s Washington State Chair Discussed Violence, Surveillance Against Constituents (ExposedbyCMD) FCC Under Fire For Putting ALEC Rep On 'Consumer' Advisory Board (Tech Dirt) Stephen Moore's ranking of states’ economies has been wrong for 12 straight years (Los Angeles Times) Trump Appoints Stephen Moore, ALEC's Favorite Economist, to Fed(ExposedbyCMD) Tulsa World editorial: Whose interests are legislators representing when they copy cut-and-paste legislation? (Tulsa World) Arizona among top states for passing ‘copycat bills’ written by national partisan & industry groups (Tucson Sentinel) FCC “consumer advisory” panel includes ALEC, big foe of municipal broadband (Ars Techinca) Editorial: Lawmakers must stop outsourcing bills to special interest groups (Democrat & Chronicle) From thought to law: How legislation is created in North Dakota (Grand Forks Herald) Means, Cowsert Debate Private-School Vouchers Flag Pole (Flag Pole) Why Progressive Cities In Conservative States Are Losing Their Political Influence Pacific Standard (Pacific Standard) Bills banning local plastic bag regulations use ALEC model (Montgomery Advertiser) From education to gun control, your legislators outsource their jobs and you get copycat laws (USA Today) Scott Walker to Head ‘Slow Moving Coup’ to Repeal-and-Replace U.S. Constitution (The Progressive) States Wanted to Snoop on Contractors, but Plans Are Stalling (Bloomberg Law) THE GREEN SCARE: How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat (The Intercept) Chicago wants rent control — will our elected officials listen? (Chicago Tribune) Former Wisconsin legislator Leah Vukmir joins conservative National Taxpayers Union (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Tech-neutral energy standards emerge as bipartisan climate policy (Axios) CPAC Speakers Were Obsessed With the Socialist Boogeyman (The Intercept) Kentucky teachers' sickout closes state's largest district (World Socialist Web Site) How business groups are fighting a wave of anti-plastic straw laws (NBC News) How to Rebuild the Labor Movement, State by State (The American Prospect) Lawmakers are taking aim at trial lawyers. It could affect who you could sue, and how much you could win (Tampa Bay Times) Column: Governor Lamont might just be worse than Dan Malloy (The Daily Campus) Physicist leading Trump’s ‘adversarial’ climate review also led group touting carbon emissions (Science Magazine) How socialism destroys private charity and hurts the poor (Washington Examiner) How Third Way Democrats Could Get Trump Re-elected (In These Times) A Deeply Cursed Tour Through the CPAC Schedule (Splinter) Guest column: Article unfairly criticized Deschutes County Commissioner Ben (Bulletin) H. Edward Flentje: Give Charles Koch credit (Wichita Eagle) West Virginia Strikes Again, Defeating Privatization Bill in a Single Day (Workday Minnesota) Rebecca Gavin: If education bill had been good, it would've been transparent (Charleston Gazette-Mail) Pro-Trump Billionaires Continue To Bankroll Climate Denial (Huffington Post) Viewpoints: Leveling the playing field in state legislatures (The Daily Herald)
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