Stateline Midwest
Stateline Midwest,
published monthly, keeps members of the Midwestern Legislative
Conference up to date on policy issues impacting their states, actions
being taken by the region's 11 state legislatures, and work being done
by the MLC and The Council of State Governments. Each issue of
Stateline Midwest includes in-depth articles covering issues of
importance to Midwestern lawmakers. The newsletter also has sections
devoted to a roundup of news from the region's leading newspapers and
summaries of recent reports examining critical public policy issues.
This publication is provided to
state government officials free of charge. If you are not a
state government official, the annual subscription rate is $60.
Click on the following links to
download recent issues of Stateline Midwest.
Recap
of 2008 MLC Annual Meeting -- Includes stories on speeches by Marc Freedman, David Brooks and
Edmund Morris; policy sessions on health care reform and
transportation funding and policy; this year's winners of 2008 CSG
Innovations Awards; and the work done and resolutions passed by the MLC's public policy committees.
July
2008 -- Includes articles on health care reforms in Iowa and Minnesota,
proposed structural changes to the Michigan Legislature, reaction to the reauthorization of the U.S. farm bill,
debate over laws regarding state DNA databases,
state efforts to address workforce shortages and a group of Michigan
legislators working to eliminate hunger.
June
2008 -- Includes articles on corrections reform in Kansas
and Michigan, new education laws in Iowa and Nebraska, the move to
more Medicaid managed care in Ohio and Illinois, ongoing debate in
the region over the direction of family-farm legislation,
legislative efforts to bolster the Michigan and Ohio economies, and
Indiana's revamped property tax system.
May
2008 -- Includes articles on the region's ongoing debate over
coal-fired plants, the tug of war over governors' veto powers,
legislative proposals to change how state Supreme Court judges are
selected, and efforts in South Dakota and Wisconsin to expand and
improve Internet-based K-12 education.
April
2008 -- Includes articles on
a milk labeling dispute that has reached the region's capitols, a
study examining the performance of state government, the impact on
states of federal rule changes to Medicaid, legislation in the
Midwest to help kinship caregivers, a new push to promote "green
buildings," and Kansas' efforts to address a looming drinking-water
crisis.
March
2008 -- Includes articles on school consolidation proposals,
the extent of the fiscal crunch in the Midwest, new
energy-efficiency laws in Illinois and Minnesota, Kansas and
Nebraska reforms of child-protective services, a review of the State
of the State addresses, and details on a pioneering e-waste
recycling law in Minnesota.
February
2008 -- Includes articles on
initiatives to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in the
Midwest,
questions surrounding the powers of an Illinois legislative oversight committee, an
interstate compact to protect the Great Lakes, state efforts to fight rising foreclosure rates
and
Iowa's approach to controlling livestock odor.
January
2008 -- Includes articles on
Midwestern governors' new greenhouse gas accord and energy platform,
a proposed legislative code of conduct in South Dakota, the regional
impact of allowing state-inspected meat to cross state borders,
proposed changes to adoption laws, Minnesota's ideas to fund and
upgrade the state's transportation infrastructure, and the
importance of local input into proposed federal ID rules.
Archived
Issues (1999-2007)
For more information, contact:
Tim
Anderson
last updated:
August 05, 2008
