Stateline Opinion Roundup

Terrible deal for states rejecting Medicaid expansion

Are massive on-line courses making education a monoculture?

How often is Alaska the coldest state? Ask USA Today

Why conservatives oppose expansion of Obamacare

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Are California enterprise zones just for cronies?

More gambling the wrong way to raise money

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Disruptive changes affecting law profession in Delaware

Why Florida business wants Medicaid expansion

Is anticonsumer insurance law just designed to damage Obamacare?

New jet helps Gov. Rick Scott crisscross Florida

Keep college affordable

Common Core online chat yields lively debate but no consensus

Basu: Bachmann's investigations are wake-up call for Iowa

More transparency needed on licensing fees

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Iowans need answers to Medicaid questions

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A sign of the times?

Tax impacts

Treating addicts with medicine, respect

What was all the fuss about?

College affordability pays off in unexpected ways (listen up, state government)

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Helen Milliken remembered as classy First Lady of Michigan

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Minnesota must repair a tax mistake

Gov. Bullock did the right thing vetoing Medicaid bill

Gun background checks up to Sandoval now

School contracts: Progress, perhaps?

Denial of tenure for N.J. Supreme Court Justice Wallace was an act of republican vigor that ought to be celebrated

No easy choices to replace Lautenberg for an ambitious Christie

The gas industry's hot air

NC lawmakers perched to upend a delicate car-coast balance

Budget crunch time invites legislative sleight of hand

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How Pennsylvania shortchanges its veterans

Fulfill the promise to expand 4K

The Amp would transform local transportation

The I-word

Smell test

Where illegal abortion leads

Grading teachers on test scores

DNA ruling the right call

Collecting DNA needs high standards

A smarter Medicaid pharmacy

After Supreme Court DNA decision, what's the future of criminal justice?

In DNA ruling, Supreme Court makes the right call

Democrats will take the lead on issues voters care about

California budget has many holes to fill in 10 days

Safety in the age of cannabis candy

When the good guys in education reform prevailed

Gambling not a long-term fix

Rent justification bill would bring fairness

DNA searches go too far

HECO needs to step up for future

Idaho D’s have candidates awaiting

State must keep limits on DNA collection

Iowans need answers to Medicaid questions

Don’t let turmoil hurt Kansas utility customers

Mr. Wilkins goes to the Senate

Mass. prisons rely too much on solitary confinement

Minnesota's sex-offender program needs reform

Helping eastern Montana right thing to do

A special session? Who saw that coming?

Budget hearings: Where are the people?

Expanding Medicaid: good for economy, good for the uninsured

Hey, Gov. Christie: Your special election will cost taxpayers $25 million

Christie's self-serving stunt

Gov. Christie should sign new law targeting N.J. scrap metal thieves

Senate haste

Political benefits, but criticism on both sides

Christie's a shrewd pol who will never be president

Christie's up for re-election today? Huh?

Gov. Christie's quick, costly decision

High court DNA ruling reflects technology today

Climate change gets local

GOP should heed ‘Moral Monday’ protests

State court ruling on youth services was a victory for PA kids

House Dem the subject of DA probe

For a better parole system

Sticker shock warrants review

We need to keep fair elections in Utah

Prison policy

F-35 decision must be open process

McDonnell’s mismanagement of a public-relations crisis

Gov. McDonnell's tin ear on ethics

Why are Alabama Democrats stonewalling progress?

An elections map: Redistricting board needs to get moving

Bill Lockyer had the right stuff to be governor

Workforce has changed, but unequal pay has not

Hick and Dunlap in 2014?

Test waters on higher-ed funds

State budget a mixed bag

Public robbed of a reformed employee

A critique of how DCPS is implementing Common Core

A partisan Scott veto on licenses

Joe Garcia’s ballot scandal

Help UH students graduate on time

Solving crimes with DNA — the Supreme Court gets it right

Sweating it out in Springfield

No more concealed-carry delay

GOP's Rauner says he's running for Illinois governor

Activist, reckless session

Medicaid expansion in hands of seven GOP lawmakers

Flawed jobs' bill's silver lining