Manitoba.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In accordance with a sessional order passed in June 2007, the second session of the 39th Manitoba Legislature resumed on April 9, 2008 to consider a new budget and legislative agenda. The session began with Finance Minister Greg Selinger (NDP--St. Boniface) presenting the NDP government's...

Green parties.
US environmentalists would no doubt love to be in the place of British greens, who are in the enviable position of being aggressively courted by the major political parties. In recent months, leaders of the three largest political parties--Labor, Conservative, and Liberal Democrats--have offered detailed environmental proposals...

Administration.
Courts of the 21st Century: Technological Applications in the Courts. Todd Fichtenberg, University of Michigan--Flint, Department of Computer Science, Flint, MI 48502 During the winter of 2005, I was invited to perform an internship at the National Center for State Courts Technology Division in Williamsburg, Virginia. Under...

New Medicaid regulations cause for concern.
On February 22, 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued new rules that would provide for prior determination of "reasonable and necessary" services, which are subject to Medicare reimbursement, and allow states greater flexibility in designing their...

New Jersey.
Gov. Jon Corzine (D) called his new budget proposal a big step toward long-term property tax relief. Republican legislators dismissed it as an election year budget that provides modest tax relief and does not do enough to address the state's serious fiscal problems. The Republicans may have a point....

Congress going solar?
In the 109th Congress' final hours last December, it passed legislation extending the federal solar tax energy credits through 2008 (see "Green Design on a Roll," feature sidebar, January/February 2007). The Solar Energy Industries Association was cautiously optimistic about the one-year extension under the Tax Relief and Health Care...

BIO Praises Congress for Helping Push Growth of Biorefineries in Recent Legislation.
SciTech21-13 December 2006-BIO Praises Congress for Helping Push Growth of Biorefineries in Recent Legislation(C)2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Executive Vice President Brent Erickson today praised the passage of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act for including a provision covering biorefineries. In...

What is the best way to reform the U.S. health care system? A universal health care tax credit is the solution.
Dr. Grumbach recommends transplant surgery. I suggest practicing the diet and exercise of serious economic discipline. Let's keep our perspective. Roughly 84% of Americans have public or private insurance coverage, and they are mostly satisfied with it. The uninsured minority are a heterogeneous working population. They are...

City, county backing hapless hotelier here.
Registering a full blip on the Reporter's exclusive Upcoming Scandal Radar is the crazy deal being pushed through that would give tax breaks, change zoning laws and generally make things easier for a New Jersey "developer" to make money on some property he owns on Buffalo Avenue here. ...

Saskatchewan.
The Saskatchewan Assembly began its spring session on March 6th by welcoming a new Member. Saskatchewan Party candidate Nancy Heppner was victorious in the March 5th by-election in the constituency of Martensville, winning with 77% of the vote. She succeeds her father, Ben Heppner, who held the...