After the presidential election fiasco, major voting reform looked like a sure thing in 2001. Maybe this year.

Increasingly, states are pushing public university researchers to become entrepreneurs as well. It's a delicate business.

Republicans and Democrats are more closely matched in state politics than they have been in a long time. They may stay that way for quite a while.

Budget crunchers in Ohio must feel like they can't win. They've spent the past several years looking for billions of dollars in funding for school construction to meet mandates set by the state Supreme Court.

Iowa's immigrant-friendly policies aren't wildly popular among its residents. But the state has little choice. It needs people.