HR/Ops
The term for a situation that allows an employee to make a change to their health insurance elections outside of open enrollment.
What is a QLE / Qualifying life event?
March, April, May, June and July.
What are months that are not abbreviated?
Category for any story written by Casey Quinlan and Robert Zullo.
What is national?
The Silver State
What is Nevada?
This politician is responsible for a $100M national flameout at the hands of their most famous resident.
Who is Ron DeSantis?
The name of States Newsroom’s EAP provider
What is First Sun?
Not pro-life.
What is anti-abortion?
These photos are not sanctioned by Mary.
What is AP (Creative Commons, Wikimedia, Shutterstock, Flicker)?
The Peace Garden State
What is North Dakota?
This chief executive’s recent memoir includes a confession most likely to land them on PETA’s most wanted list.
Who is Kristi Noem?
The first of this month marks the start of States Newsroom’s health insurance plan year.
What is November?
This punctuation mark, often omitted in casual writing, is crucial in AP Style to denote an abbreviation's plural form. What is it?
What is the apostrophe ('s)?
Applying George Carlin's "7 words you can never say on TV."
What is States Newsroom’s profanity policy?
The Pine Tree State
What is Maine?
This elected official’s alleged activity as a foreign agent paid off in cash, a Mercedes, furniture and gold bars.
Who is Bob Menendez?
The most recent addition to States Newsroom’s observed holidays.
What is Juneteenth?
It makes me sick when people ignore AP Style and spell this as one word.
What is health care?
Mary’s golden rule for strong commentary that is 501c3 approved.
What is educate, don’t advocate?
The Old Line State
What is Maryland?
In trying to overturn an election, this aspiring politician’s motto could be if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Who is Kari Lake?
States Newsroom provides exactly 20 hours of this kind of paid leave to all full-time employees every calendar year.
What is volunteer leave?
What retail giant once had a hyphenated name, but now is a single word?
What is Walmart?
“I was cut from the story,’’ Jane Doe said. Why?
What is the States Newsroom policy on no pseudonyms in a story?
The Natural State
What is Arkansas?
This elected official, who didn’t believe in “welfare” but accepted federal assistance for their businesses, refused to participate in a summer food program for kids before reversing course.
Who is Jim Pillen?