Kentucky.Presents information on the 1996 elections for the United States House of Representatives and Senate in the state of Kentucky. The Senate race between Mitch McConnell and Steven Beshear; The race for House in the first, second, third, and sixth districts.Gruenwald...
H.B. 8, the so-called revenue bill and part of the budget, morphed from an 11-page bill when introduced, into a 124-page bill when favorably voted out of the Kentucky House of Representatives 73-11 on March 25, and finally into a 198-page bill when passed by the Kentucky Senate 87...
“Rather than debating the merits of the issue (of gun control), these Republican lawmakers have chosen to punish, silence, and expel duly-elected representatives of the people of Tennessee,” Biden said in a statement. Before the expulsion votes, House members debated more than 20 bills, incl...
Kentucky has no townships within each county but instead has a system of magisterial districts. Municipalities are divided into six classes according to population. There are three forms of city government: the mayor-council plan, the commission plan, and the city-manager plan. The mayor-council...
but won 57% of the seats on the House. This happens because state legislators create bizarrely drawn Congressional districts that give one party an unnatural advantage. It is a practice long ridiculed as Gerrymandering (named after Founder, Framer, and governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry.)...
The affluent suburb of Edina lies within reach of the Twin Cities, hosting the Minnesota State University and the shopping districts 50th & France and Southdale. “People [in Edina] have a high expectation of success, no matter what the endeavor,” lifelong resident Ryan Lundtold the Star Trib...
The General Assembly, Kentucky’s legislature, is bicameral, made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives; it meets in even-numbered years. The Senate has 38 members who serve for four years, with half elected every two years, and the House has 100 members who serve for two yea...