DRIVING the back roads, you sometimes cross state borders unknowingly.
If smugglers were crossed international borders to make a profit on smuggled cigarettes, why wouldn't they cross state borders to do the same?
It perpetuated a mean and irrational patchwork in which duly wed couples may not be considered married when they cross state borders.
For those planning long trips, HP suggests buying Secure Digital memory cards to pop in and out as you cross state borders.
Equally, diplomats may conclude that until abuses in Eritrea end, people will continue to cross state borders at the rate of 5,000 a month.
For example, states can regulate car dealerships and supermarkets, even though the goods they sell may cross state borders, according to Harold Feld, senior vice president of the consumer group Public Knowledge.
While this move marks a new approach in the regulation of small-sum lending, such national floors are common in the governance of other activities that easily cross state borders.
As money and news media coverage cross state borders more easily than ever, driven by fiery commentators and online groups, we are bound to see politicians who are popular vehicles more than they are actual candidates, instruments of resentment whose grass-roots support may emanate mostly from states they have never visited.
Meanwhile, lawmakers in several U.S. states, including New Jersey, California and Florida, have independently floated proposals for legalizing some kinds of online gambling, taking advantage of what supporters call a loophole in the 2006 federal law, potentially permitting such activity as long as it does not cross state borders.
These trends are all too familiar – in fact, the gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students, between schools as we cross state borders – are the exact reason that Labor introduced the Gonski needs-based school funding reforms, reforms that teachers and principals testify are already working in their schools.
Just imagine Coca-Cola or Toyota trying to deliver goods in a constrained atmosphere unable to cross state borders.
