Making Decisions During the Crises: Watch the Cars, Not the Light!
By Thom Little, Ph.D. More than thirty years ago, as a college student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, I was fortunate enough to serve as an [...]
Systemic Racism: What It’s Like to Be Me
David J. Webb has been interning with SLLF for over a year, working on numerous projects. Last week, we asked him to write a piece for the website about [...]
Times of Crises Call for Special Leaders
By: Thom Little, Ph.D. A few weeks ago, I posted a blog entitled “A Rock and a Hard Place: The Pressure to and Challenges of Reopening the States,” acknowledging [...]
A Rock and a Hard Place: The Pressure to and Challenges of Re-Opening the States
By Thom Little, Ph.D. It is hard for me to believe, but I have been studying and working with state legislative leaders for more than three decades now and [...]
Who’s In Charge Here? Checks and Balances During a State of Emergency
By Thom Little, Ph.D. On February 29, 2020, Washington Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency in response to new cases of COVID-19, directing state agencies to use [...]
Convening During the Coronavirus
By Thom Little, Ph.D. America is a representative democracy. Voters elect people who meet together to debate and discuss bills and then vote in the interests of their constituents. [...]
The Time That Has Been Given to Us
By Thom Little, Ph.D. Like most of you, I am now spending the vast majority of my time at home. However, I have been doing this a bit longer [...]
Leading Through Crisis
By Thom Little, Ph.D. Last Fall, SLLF hosted “Testing Your Mettle: Leading Through Crisis” at the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas where we examined how US Presidents [...]
Framing America’s Future: The Importance of Compromise
By Thom Little, Ph.D. For several months now, all of us at the State Legislative Foundation have been focused on our first educational program of 2020, Framing America’s Future, to [...]
The Listener of the House!
By Thom Little, Ph.D. This past weekend, SLLF held its last meeting of the year, the Board Meeting and Leadership Roundtable, in beautiful Clearwater Beach, Florida. It is always [...]