statehouse

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Before joining the Journal in 2022, she was an investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom, where for several years she covered statehouse lobbying, campaign finance and ballot measures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

For statehouse denizens in Concord, the question of pay turns on competing views about the makeup of the legislative body and the virtues of volunteer lawmakers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

"People had thought that we would have to move on to a legal strategy and didn't believe we could defeat it directly at the statehouse."

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

That the majority of the South Carolinians in attendance that Wednesday were against the legislation was clear, Shealy said, recalling that the line to enter the room went outside the statehouse and around the building.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2025

The story of women’s suffrage ended with Henry Burn’s vote in the Tennessee statehouse in 1920, but it began almost a century earlier with Elizabeth Cady, a young girl in Johnstown, New York, in 1826.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling