Senior Vice President, Federal Policy, Healthcare Association of New York State Cristina Freyre Batt / Kate Penn As senior vice president, federal policy, Cristina Freyre Batt oversees all of the Healthcare Association of New York State’s federal government relations and advocacy ...
“My decision honors the voters’ intent by enforcing the measure the way it was commonly understood when Oregonians added it to our state constitution," Griffin-Valade said. But several Republican state senators who boycotted filed suit against Griffin-Valade in the Ore...
Federalism is based on the axiomatic FACT that the Federal Government was created or formed by the States, not the other way around. Under this principle of State Primacy (my own term), the creature (the Fed) cannot destroy or cannibalize its own creator(s). This is why the powers of ...
Certainly one of Rockefeller’s main legacies is federal antitrust legislation, as well as laws strengthening unions. During his lifetime (and after), many people understandably faulted Rockefeller for the radical means through which he cultivated his fortune. Still, his business practices and chariti...
in the electric chair at Florida State Prison on January 24, 1989.Biographer Ann Rule, who had previously worked with Bundy, described him as "a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after....
“This isn’t the federal government’s money, this is our tax dollars. The citizens of California have paid for this.” Brian Rice, president of California Professional Firefighters, the state’s largest firefighter organization, responding to a threat President-elect Donald Trump made at a cam...
Montgomery was executed by the state of North Carolina. The Ku Klux Klan had wanted to lynch Montgomery, and feeling robbed of the opportunity, stormed the funeral home to claim Montgomery's body. The Klan was met by 40 black veterans with guns. Using his military prowess, Williams and the...
I, A. B., do swear, that I do not hold myself bound in allegiance to the King of Great Britain, and that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to the State of Maryland; and shall also subscribea declaration of his belief in the Christian religion."...
The building was so toxic that responders had to wear hazmat gear and could remain inside only for brief periods. The discovery of the bodies at Return to Nature prompted state legislators to strengthen what had been among the laxest funeral home regulations in t...
The so-called internal affairsdoctrinethat applies in America dictates that state rather than federal law governs relationships between companies and their directors and stockholders. New Jersey dominated incorporations at the beginning of the 20th century. But starting in 1913 its progressive-era governo...