In response to the State Integrity Investigation grades handed out to states in March, some states have introduced and moved forward with ethics reform and corruption prevention legislation, including legislatures in the Midwest.Legislators in Michigan have pushed the Reform Government…
No Midwest Democracy Network states rank higher than 10th in a 50-state ranking of state transparency laws and corruption risk standards, and none received a higher grade than C. Michigan’s F grade ranks amongst the lowest in the country, while…
The Campaign Finance Institute has published an article in the peer-reviewed Election Law Journal called “Small Donors, Big Democracy: New York City’s Matching Funds as a Model for the Nation and States.” Michael Malbin,…
Network partner Michigan Campaign Finance Network followed the money spent in the first quarter of 2012, and issued a report breaking down the $7.6 million in television ad spending. While candidates spent a good portion of that amount, the Finance…
Demos has released a new report on immigrant voter turnout and registration showing that structural barriers still exist for new citizens when they want to register to vote. Restrictive requirements, language access, socioeconomic status, location of immigrant community, and country…
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This week’s Beyond the Network takes a look at some of the issues happening outside the Midwest, and provides a national perspective on some of the issues that Midwest Democracy Network covers. Read on, read on!
We brought you a Redistricting Round-Up earlier this week, but there have been some big developments in Midwest redistricting since then.First, Midwest Democracy Network’s Draw the Line campaign has…
Redistricting continues to move forward in the Midwest! Here’s some of the latest news from throughout the region, including a plug for Draw the Line Midwest in a CNN.com article.Draw the Line Midwest mentioned on CNN.com Midwest Democracy Network’s redistricting…
Updates throughout the midwest on the redistricting front as all states in the Network are engaged and moving forward in the process.MichiganKyle Caldwell of the Michigan Nonprofit Association pens an article for the Detroit Free Press on the importance of…
Census data for all states has been released, and redistricting is well under way all across the Network . Keep up with redistricting news throughout the week at Draw the Line Midwest. Here’s some of the news…
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