Can Birk Pull His Weight in Politics?

There is an interesting Twitter War between former Republican Party Deputy Chair Michael Brodkorb aka https://twitter.com/mbrodkorb and Republican Lt Governor candidate Matt Birk aka https://twitter.com/BirkMatt playing out on social media. Brodkorb, who used to be...

Checks & Balances on the Radio

Listen to the Sue Jeffers show on 1130 AM Saturday at 4:00 pm and hear Checks & Balances Publisher Shawn Towle discuss a wide range of political topics with the host. One of the issues we expect will be covered is Ranked Choice Voting…. This content is for...

Official Recognition of New Media by Senate

Yesterday, the Senate Rules and Administration Committee voted to present to the body its proposed rules for the 2011-12 legislative session. Contained in the new rules are new provisions, which will finally resolve the questions between press credentials for media...

Checks & Balances is Back

We at Checks & Balances apologize for the recent disruption of web services. Checks & Balances website suffered a hostile attack from a hacker who we have come to find out is a resident of Germany. Our file server became to collection point for Nazi...

Personalizing Checks & Balances

We are working to improve your experience with Checks & Balances. We have a number of new features and layout coming in the month of February. We are asking our readers to take a moment a fill out a survey form to help us in this endeavor....