• Utah Governor Delays Guest-Worker Law from Taking Effect
• Source: Salt Lake Tribune   |   Utah   |   April 3, 2013
• The program was scheduled to take effect in July, but it's now postponed for two years, due to optimism for immigration reform at the federal level.

• Prescription Drug Deaths Rise Despite Efforts to Combat Abuse
• BY: McClatchy News   |   Nation   |   April 2, 2013
• Despite efforts by law enforcement and public health officials to curb prescription drug abuse, drug-related deaths in the United States have continued to rise, the latest data show.

• 13 States Seek Contraceptive Exemption to Obamacare
• Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer   |   Nation   |   April 2, 2013
• Thirteen attorneys general believe any employer who says he or she objects to contraception should not have to provide contraceptive coverage.
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• Feds Accuse Oregon of Segregating Disabled in Sheltered Jobs
• Source: Oregonian   |   Oregon   |   April 2, 2013
• Oregon unlawfully segregates people with disabilities in sheltered workshops instead of providing them more work opportunities in the public midst, federal authorities allege.

• Hazleton a Test Case for GOP's Immigration Stance
• Source: New York Times   |   Hazleton, Pa.   |   April 1, 2013
• The Pennsylvania city presents a test case of whether the party risks leaving behind a critical part of its core constituency: white working-class voters for whom illegal immigration stirs visceral reactions.

• Gov. Pence Pushes Controversial Healthy Indiana Plan to Expand Medicaid
• Source: Indianapolis Star   |   Indiana   |   April 1, 2013
• If Washington doesn’t agree to allow the state to alter Medicaid to fit the Healthy Indiana Plan — which could happen — Medicaid would not be expanded and the state would forgo $10.5 billion in federal aid through 202

• States Lose Millions in Mineral Revenue Under Sequestration
• BY: Stateline   |   Nation   |   March 29, 2013
• The sequester will cost energy states tens of millions of dollars in mineral revenues, a move that has sparked anger — and surprise — among some state officials who say they should have been informed sooner.
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• Florida Governor Calls for Obama to Pay Up on Port Improvements
• BY: Stateline   |   Florida   |   March 29, 2013
• Ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the Port of Miami, Florida Gov. Rick Scott criticized him and the federal government for not paying their share of port improvement projects costs in the state.

• Wisconsin Governor on Gay Marriage: Let States Decide
• Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel   |   Wisconsin   |   March 28, 2013
• As the nation's highest court considers two gay marriage cases, Gov. Scott Walker backed Wisconsin's ban on gay marriage but also said the issue should be left to states to decide.

• Nevada May OK Betting on Federal Elections
• Source: Politico   |   Nevada   |   March 28, 2013
• The bill's sponsor said betting on the presidential election was “one of the biggest moneymakers [for the government] in all of betting outside the United States."
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• EPA Warns of Poor U.S. Water Quality
• BY: Stateline   |   Nation   |   March 27, 2013
• More than half of the nation’s thousands of miles of rivers and streams are plagued by poor water quality, including harmful nutrient pollution and mercury, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

• EPA Wastewater Ruling a Big Win for Cities
• Source: Des Moines Register   |   Iowa   |   March 27, 2013
• A federal appeals court has sided with a group of Iowa cities challenging Environmental Protection Agency wastewater treatment rules that would have forced cities across the country to spend billions of dollars if the court had upheld them.

• States' Rights Debated in Supreme Court DOMA Case
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   Washington, D.C.   |   March 27, 2013
• The U.S. Supreme Court clashed over whether it's constitutional for the federal government to ignore state decisions to legalize gay marriage.

• Legislatures Seek to Protect Immigrants from Federal Law
• BY: Stateline   |   Nation   |   March 26, 2013
• As Congress considers major revisions to federal immigration laws, legislators in a few states are trying to block the federal government’s power to deport immigrants who land in their jails.

• U.S. Supreme Court to Hear a 2nd Affirmative Action Case
• Source: Inside Higher Ed   |   Michigan   |   March 26, 2013
• Even before the justices have issued a ruling on the other affirmative action case that they considered this term, they agreed to consider whether Michigan voters had the legal right to bar the state's public colleges and universities from considering race or ethnicity in admissions.

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