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With the books closed on the 2009 Election (a few important specials notwithstanding), focus is now beginning to shift to the stakes for 2010, which puts redistricting squarely in the spotlight. We're ...

In an historic and unanimous vote yesterday afternoon, New Jersey Democrats chose Sheila Oliver as the first African-American woman ever to serve as the state’s Assembly Speaker.

The fireworks were on full display this week in former State Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno’s federal corruption trial, as a former Republican staffer explained how he helped his bosses stay on the wrong side of the law:

One of the most interesting states for 2010 redistricting will be Louisiana. The state is likely to lose a congressional seat, and Democrats fighting to maintain their state legislative majorities against ...

Normally, we wouldn’t have a problem with a lawmaker wearing a mask on Halloween. But the University of Tennessee did when Republican Rep. Stacey Campfield showed up to a football game in a Mexican wrestler’s mask, frightening two small children -– and that’s when police got involved:

Kentucky Democrats and nominee Jodie Haydon are wasting no time at all in a crucial special election in central Kentucky, where Republican State Senator Dan Kelly resigned to accept a judicial appointment. (We noted the typical, classless response from Kelly’s Republican colleagues at the time.)

State legislators don’t get to vote in Congress, but that doesn’t mean they ignore what happens there. And Washington State’s Democratic legislators have been working overtime to make sure their state’s residents get a say on health care reform and climate change legislation.

This week, local media reported that Republican State Rep. Denny Hoskins hadn't paid more than $20,000 in unpaid property taxes owed by Hoskins’ real estate business.

In the age of Obama, it seems like Republicans’ dog-whistle politics just keep getting louder. A case in point is Republican State Senator David Schultheis of Colorado, who sent out a tweet last week comparing President Obama to the 9/11 hijackers:

The loss of a loved one is a crushing experience, but it’s all the more tragic for thousands of domestic partners in Rhode Island – gay and straight – who have no legal right to plan their spouse’s funeral. ...

Another new policy report was published last week, this time ranking the innovativeness of each state’s education system. And like several other recent reports, states with Democratic legislatures ranked near the top.

In Texas, Scott Hochberg, a Democratic legislator from Houston has set into motion a potential revolution in public education.

Just days after Proposition 1 overturned marriage equality in Maine, Republicans have filed legislation to repeal New Hampshire’s same-sex marriage law, which narrowly passed this year. But despite the ...