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By Thom Little, Ph.D. When my daughter Virginia was five years old, we signed her up for one-week ballet camp during the summer. We knew she loved to dance [...]

By Thom Little, Ph.D. This weekend more than forty state legislative leaders from across the country will gather at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum for SLLF’s [...]

By Thom Little, Ph.D. I found a dinosaur- or at least something that I thought had become as extinct as the dinosaur: a high profile, competitive statewide campaign that [...]

By Thom Little, Ph.D. As we sit at the threshold of another new year with all of the possibilities and challenges it holds, I want to propose a new [...]

Eleven new legislative leaders have been appointed to the State Legislative Leaders Foundation (SLLF) board at its annual Board of Directors meeting in Las Vegas on November 30, 2018. [...]

“Senator Ben Atchley will always be remembered by all of us here at SLLF as a man of humility, faith, love and integrity. He made me a better man [...]

by Thom Little, Ph.D. My wife and I are now officially empty nesters. This year, our youngest daughter started college. She is a first year (they don’t call them [...]

By Thom Little, Ph.D. SLLF’s motto is “Inspiration, Education, Excellence.” Last weekend, I believe we fulfilled that mission and motto as we presented “Addressing the Opioid Crisis” in collaboration [...]

By: Thom Little, Ph.D. In late August, 2018, Speakers of the House from more than half of the fifty states gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the 27th Annual Meeting [...]

By Thom Little, Ph.D. More than two centuries ago, fifty-five men from across thirteen American colonies established a government like none other before, a government where power was bestowed [...]