Wisconsin governor employs partial veto to fund schools for 4 centuries
ABC News interviewed Kristoffer Shields, program manager of the Eagleton Center on the American Governor, on the power of the Governor of Wisconsin.
I think it'll be a really interesting conversation, moving forward, to see how comfortable people are with the executive being able to make a decision like that," Shields said. "I'm really curious to see if this turns into a movement to restrict the power in Wisconsin, or if this blows over."
Nikki Haley vs. 'President Harris'
Politico spoke with CAWP Director of Research Kelly Dittmar about women running against one another for their respective 2024 presidential campaigns.
“We’re just not used to seeing women who are very different but share the same demographic identities running against each other,” Dittmar says. “Nikki Haley is just using the same strategy that all the white guys have used.”
NCSL Grants Will Help States Launch Nonpartisan Science Policy Fellowships
The National Conference of State Legislatures named the Eagleton Science and Politics Fellowship as a model fellowship program for states interested in creating their own programs.
Advisory group member and New Jersey Sen. Andrew Zwicker says fellows in Rutgers University’s Eagleton Science and Politics Fellowship Program work alongside staff in legislative and executive branch offices, bringing valuable science and research skills to all policy issues, not just the scientific ones.“I don’t like to pigeonhole fellows only in science and tech work,” Zwicker, a physicist, says. “As scientists, they take a hard problem and break it down into small parts—and this is a helpful foundation for any policy proposal.” |