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07/14/11 Women Impacting Public Policy , a non-partisan organization that advocates for issues affecting the health of small businesses, today announced the first 100 public and private organization partners that will participate in Small Business Saturday on November 26, 2011.
07/04/11 Californians are twice as likely to use their cell phones to access the Internet than they were just three years ago, according to a statewide survey released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). The PPIC survey -- the third in a series focusing on information technology issues -- was conducted with funding from the California Emerging Technology Fund and ZeroDivide.
06/30/11 North Carolina is home to 27,250 same-sex couples, 7.28 per 1,000 households, according to a 2010 Census-driven study released today by the UCLA Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Law and Public Policy.
06/27/11 Deborah V. Bowie will be introduced Tuesday as the Senior Director of Public Policy & Communications
06/25/11 The Institute for Law and Public Policy at California University of Pennsylvania will present a seminar, Marcellus and Utica Shale for Lawyers, Aug. 19 at the Bayfront Convention Center.
06/20/11 Fergus Cullen, the executive director of the conservative Yankee Institute for Public Policy, is blasting the state employee unions and their coalition, known as SEBAC, for filing a written complaint with Attorney General George Jepsen regarding the concession and savings deal with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
06/17/11 WASHINGTON -- The indiscretions that led to New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner's downfall may have been bad, but they don't constitute the worst recent political sex scandal, according to a new poll released Friday. Only three percent of respondents in Public Policy Polling's survey rated Weiner...
06/14/11 NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ronald A. Williams, former chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Aetna Inc., has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), the world's most comprehensive and broadly based health care products company. Mr. Williams will serve on the Compensation & Benefits Committee and the Public Policy Advisory ...
06/10/11 The university's Center for Public Administration and Public Policy has compiled a list of 105 ideas to share with local leaders and inspire them to think creatively. A separate list of ideas being implemented is coming soon. The goal: to get more local governments to pool resources.
06/10/11 One Linden Education Association official is calling a recent Mackinac Center for Public Policy's report about the district misleading.
06/09/11 The folks at the Public Policy Institute of California in San Francisco are well acquainted with the man nominated to be U.S. secretary of commerce. John Bryson , nominated by President Obama last week to replace...
06/07/11 SUGAR LAND, TX--(Marketwire - Jun 7, 2011) - Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Despite today's high crude oil prices, oil production by Mexico's national oil company continues to decline, a victim of a low rate of investment and slow adoption of new technology, according to Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. If not reversed ...
06/06/11 Leadership Program Prepares Young Latinos for Future in Public Policy
06/01/11 JUDY LIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. Most California voters want a say in how to solve the state's budget deficit, but they disagree with Gov. Jerry Brown's call for a renewal of higher taxes, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California. The results parallel an earlier poll indicating the public remains resistant to the Democratic governor's plan ...
05/30/11 Click here to submit a calendar item. Economic & Public Policy Breakfast Forum Sponsor: North Shore Chamber of Commerce Time: 7:30 - 9 a.m. Place: The Hawthorne Hotel in Salem The forum will feature a talk by Andrew Dreyfus, the newly-appointed President and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts on"Strategies on lowering Health Care Costs for Business".
05/25/11 Gov. Scott Walker's approval rating fell to 43% in a statewide survey released Wednesday by Public Policy Polling, down slightly from where it was in a late February poll by the same firm.
05/24/11 Democrat Russ Feingold leads Republican Tommy Thompson in a hypothetical U.S. Senate matchup in a new Wisconsin survey by Public Policy Polling.
05/21/11 A new poll on the gubernatorial race gives Democrat acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin a 15-point lead over his Republican challenger Bill Maloney. Public Policy Polling said Tomblin starts off with a 45-30 lead over Maloney in the Oct. 4 special election. If former Secretary of State Betty Ireland would have won the primary, she would have trailed Tomblin 30-48.
05/18/11 MIAMI -- The Collins Center for Public Policy is pleased to announce the election of nine new member...
05/16/11 MANCHESTER, N.H. May 2, 2011 FairPoint Communications will be hosting training sessions on the economic development modeling tool it sponsors to assist economic development and planning professionals in forecasting regional growth.The model has been used and recommended by economic development professionals throughout the state, including the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy in studies...
05/16/11 POMONA--Likely voters have a 65.6% favorable or somewhat favorable opinion of President Barack Obama, according to a Stockton/Zogby poll commissioned by the William J. Hughes Center of Public Policy at Stockton College. | 
