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The law provides for selected businesses to be licensed to grow, process, transport and sell the drug. The bill also provides for expungement -- the nullification of lower-level cannabis possession convictions -- and funding for minority neighborhoods hit hardest by prosecution of marijuana possession.
Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Val DiGiorgio resigned Tuesday after The Inquirer reported that he had traded sexually explicit messages with a onetime GOP candidate for Philadelphia City Council.
Judith Persichilli would be the first nurse to hold the job that includes licensing and inspecting hospitals and nursing homes, responding to public health emergencies and running the medicinal marijuana program.
The state routinely has some of the nation’s highest rates of domestic violence, sexual assault and murder.
The amended bill says internet service providers that are contracted by the state have to agree to provide "net neutral service."
Some state vehicles in Maryland will be outfitted with digital license plates as part of a two-year pilot program to see if the developing technology could work for customers.
There are more lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans politicians than ever before, but they only make up .1 percent of elected officials.
The potential change in the federal poverty line would lower the number of people who qualify for social services by almost 1 million.
Gov. Abbott said the troops will have two main roles: to help at temporary holding facilities for single adult migrants in the Rio Grande Valley and in El Paso, and to help Border Patrol units along ports of entry.
After calling the bill a "fig leaf" aimed at saving Louisiana's attorney general from embarrassment, Gov. John Bel Edwards quietly signed into a law a measure pushed by one of his political rivals that aims to eventually offer some protections to patients if the Affordable Care Act is overturned.
Nebraska was one of three states with Republican-controlled legislatures where voters last year approved an expansion.
There are powerful market forces at work.
The mock municipality began taking shape in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Now, it is part of Texas A&M’s nearly 300-acre Emergency Services Training Institute, which attracts firefighters and other first responders from around the globe.
This latest challenge shows how schools struggle to fill empty teaching positions and maintain teaching standards.
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group's annual list of “highway boondoggles” includes nine transportation projects that will cost a total of $25 billion while driving up emissions.
More people are registering as Republicans than Democrats in states with gubernatorial elections this year and in some 2020 battleground states.
Planned Parenthood will continue providing abortions at least until a St. Louis judge issues a ruling in the clinic's legal battle with the state Department of Health and Senior Services, which on Friday declined to renew the facility's license.
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It’s not just neighbors upset at the wild parties. Unsuspecting homeowners can get burned too.
Among other things, the amended rules ease the requirements on certain foods containing marijuana and on state residency requirements for operating a recreational marijuana businesses.
Threats against the state lawmakers and government officials come amid a clash between Democrats and Republicans, specifically over a sweeping greenhouse gas emissions cap-trade-bill.
The bill’s signing makes Illinois the first state to forbid such detention centers.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to scrap the entrance exam attracted national fanfare when it was announced, but it soon collided with stubborn realities.
New Jersey's governor on Thursday signed a law to improve rideshare safety in honor of Robbinsville, New Jersey, native Samantha "Sami" Josephson, a college student who was kidnapped and killed after she got into a car she mistakenly thought was an Uber.
The federal guidelines for bus fire safety haven't been significantly updated in nearly 50 years, according to the NTSB.
Dave Bauer, the CEO of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, says the Trump administration and Congress need to pitch in to help states accomplish their transportation goals.
A playbook developed by religious interest groups was used to push controversial new laws in statehouses nationwide.
The EPA's Affordable Clean Energy rule rescinds the Obama administration's ambitious Clean Power Plan and replaces it with less stringent guidelines for states and coal-fired power plants to reduce their emissions.
The screenshots of the public posts, published in the Plain View Project's online database, purport to show officers or police department employees making hateful or racist remarks.
All 11 Republican senators are in hiding, at least some of them out of state, in order to prevent the Senate from having the quorum it needs to operate.
The #MeToo movement, along with advocacy by former staffers who reported harassment, helped usher in changes in Albany.
In 1910, rural African American farm families held between 16 million and 19 million acres of farmland, but the latest Census of Agriculture shows the amount of land held by African American farmers with active farms has dropped to just over 2.5 million acres.
Hawaii’s governor announced Thursday that state officials gave the go-ahead to a construction company that will build a giant telescope on top of a volcano that some Native residents consider sacred.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation clearing the way for Briarwood Presbyterian Church and its affiliated school, as well as a private academy in Madison County, to establish their own police forces.
They're putting more emphasis on applicants' emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills.
Almost every state has jumped at the opportunity to tax online purchases.
New research offers one way to look at the enormity of the cost as policymakers consider how to choose winners and losers in the race to adapt to climate change.
More than half of the $1 billion is earmarked for the town of Paradise and Butte County, which sustained catastrophic loss of life and property damage after the Camp fire in November 2018. At least 85 people died.
A county clerk in New York is challenging a new state law that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain noncommercial driver’s licenses and learner’s permits.
Google's announcement Tuesday that it would put $1 billion toward housing -- including affordable units for the community and housing for its employees -- came weeks after Wells Fargo pledged the same round number -- $1 billion -- toward housing affordability over the next six years.
The work requirement had only a limited chance for success because nearly 97% of Arkansas residents subject to the mandate — those between the ages of 30 and 49 who were eligible for Medicaid — were already employed or should have been exempt from the new law.
The 65 Bitcoins, which equals $600,000, will come from the city's insurance, officials said.
Gerd W. Clabaugh, director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, will serve as the interim director of Human Services, according to a statement from the Governor's Office.
Fairbury Junior-Senior High School has had students participate in random drug-testing system for two years where students and their parents are required to sign a consent form agreeing to urinalysis, reported the Journal Star.
The Trump administration is rolling back carbon dioxide emissions regulations. Meanwhile, states are divided on whether to raise their clean air standards.
Quinton Lucas, who rose from poverty and homelessness on Kansas City's East Side to become an Ivy League-educated lawyer and City Council member, won a decisive victory in the mayor's race Tuesday night, becoming the youngest person to win the office in more than a century.
The legislation sharpened its focus on unscrupulous doctors while easing the list of medical conditions that physicians could cite in allowing schoolchildren to skip required immunizations.
Concern about an undercount of Native Americans is gaining traction here and across the country.
More Americans are saying they need a variety of animals — dogs, ducks, even insects — for their mental health. But critics say many are really just pets that do not merit special status.
One thing is certain: Illinois’ population has declined by 157,000 residents over the past five years, making it one of only two states — West Virginia is the other — to lose people over the past decade.
Gov. Cuomo and state lawmakers reached a deal Tuesday and planned to vote on a sweeping piece of climate legislation that would promote green jobs, end the state's reliance on fossil fuels and eliminate nearly all man-made pollution by 2050.
Hoosier taxpayers could be forced to pay the price for alleged sexual misconduct by Attorney General Curtis Hill Jr.
Some $2.3 million in unused funds from a $19.1 million federal grant for election cybersecurity for the 2018 election cycle is being rerouted back to counties that failed to spend the money ahead of that election.
South Bend, Indiana Mayor and 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday requested the city's police chief to issue an order reaffirming the city's police department's policy on body cameras.
Kansas prisons are in crisis after decisions by state leaders have left them overcrowded and suffering from dangerous staff shortages.
Making medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder more readily available is a cost-effective, life-saving strategy. Some states are showing the way.
According to the most comprehensive report of its kind, states spend more than $9 billion a year incarcerating people who violate community supervision terms that even corrections officials admit are difficult to comply with.
In 2017, GAO found that the median price charged nationally by air ambulance providers was around $36,400 for helicopter rides and even higher for other aircraft.
State Police and Randolph County Sheriff's deputies on Friday announced they detained 48-year-old Rebecca Lynn O'Donnell in the ex-lawmaker's death.
So far, Cal Cunningham becomes the highest-profile Democrat to enter the Senate race.
Cake makers Melissa and Aaron Klein told lesbian couple Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer in January 2013 that they didn't do same-sex wedding cakes.
Cuomo has repeatedly expressed support for the bill -- but raised last-minute concerns Monday about whether the information about undocumented immigrants gathered by the state DMV could be obtained by federal officials and used for immigration enforcement.
Every other state has sued, filed administrative charges or promised to sue the companies blamed for the national crisis, which played a role in the deaths of more than 390,000 Americans from 2000 through 2017.
Arizona law prohibits use of the funds out of state, but the bill makes an exception until July 1, 2020, for any student currently using an Empowerment Scholarship Account voucher at an out-of-state private school within 2 miles of the state border.
The birth rate is at an all-time low. That’s going to have a major impact on public services.
Absentee property owners from abroad take much of the blame for rising housing prices in America. But they’re really a net win for cities.
First-time buyers aren’t just acquiring property. They’re taking on a jurisdiction’s financial liabilities.
Performance data hasn’t worked out the way it was intended.
Cities must resist this vocal minority using pseudoscience. Their budgets are at stake.
Making neighborhoods denser is an idea with growing appeal. The question is whether it works.
The administration is focusing on a level of government that past presidents have often neglected.
Google’s sister company wants to build the city of the future on Toronto’s waterfront, raising concerns over privacy and the role of government.
Counselors say budget cuts have left them unable to respond to students’ mental health needs.
Cautiously and slowly, governments are taking more risks and modernizing the way they purchase goods and services.
Supporters of the initiatives will have to wait at least two years before they go before voters.
The policy was intended to discourage government dependence. It didn’t seem to work.
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Washington state is going further than any other to cover aging Americans' medical bills.
As the EPA and Congress debate PFAS regulations, local governments are taking action to protect people from toxic chemicals used in the production of practically everything.
Still, a few states may miss the July deadline, leading to a government shutdown in some.
White enrollment in private schools creates stark disparities in many districts.
The ruling, which united an unusual coalition of justices, could boost Democrats' chances in November.
The bill, SB 168, requires local and state law enforcement officials and entities to honor federal "immigration detainer" requests, which ask a law enforcement agency to detain someone on probable cause that they are "removable" under federal immigration laws.
California is beefing up Obamacare, restoring an individual mandate, expanding health insurance subsidies well into the middle class and covering some undocumented adults through Medicaid.
The high court unanimously ruled that the actual language of the 556-word amendment -- although dense and complex -- should have been presented to voters on the statewide ballot last November.
City officials said the contribution, which would be included in the budget being negotiated between the Council and the mayor’s office, would allow about 500 women to terminate their pregnancies.
Texas has resisted recent attempts to change its vaccine laws, allowing parents to get their children exemptions for "reasons of conscience."
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said she was "sick" over a video showing a police officer pointing his gun at a mother and her two children, while another cop slammed a father against a car and kicked him because of shoplifting allegations.
With jobs unfilled and young people moving away, some rural states are doubling down on efforts to attract new blood by expanding programs that offer incentives to live there.
In expanding its program that lets residents vote on public spending, New York City is enlivening democracy and engaging the electorate.
Eight remaining Flint water prosecutions have been dismissed by the Department of Attorney General, officials said Thursday, June 13.
The order, in a second major case challenging the laws that passed after a Democrat was elected governor but before he took office, reinstates a law that reduced the power of Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul to drop out of or settle cases.
Both the Democrat-led Assembly and Senate spent the previous hours wrangling over whether or not to repeal the exemption, which allows parents not immunize their children because of their religious beliefs.
As the Supreme Court considers a challenge to a citizenship question in the 2020 census, the U.S. Census Bureau will start testing the question’s effect on participation this week.
For more than a decade, New York City officials stood by while thousands of cabdrivers became mired in reckless loans that saddled them with debt they could not afford and helped lead to a near-collapse of the industry.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is taking steps to temporarily hand over power to the state’s No. 2 officeholder later this month when he travels to Europe for a trade mission and a vacation.
The town, which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, has fewer than 2,300 residents, is located right next to the Texas-Louisiana border (roughly 28 miles west of Shreveport).
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the hyper-loyal mouthpiece for President Trump and his scandal-scarred administration, said Thursday she's leaving the White House at the end of this month -- and her soon-to-be ex-boss sent her off with a plea to run for governor of Arkansas.
"There is something to upset everyone in the IRS rule."
Immigrants make up a quarter of the long-term care workforce, which struggles with high turnover. Without them, shortages could worsen and make it harder for people to age at home.
State officials note that drug abuse problems seldom involve only one substance.
Surrounded by dozens of lawmakers and abortion rights advocates, Pritzker signed the controversial legislation that he said will ensure that Illinois is "going to be there for women if they have to be refugees from other states."
Gov. Janet Mills signed legislation Wednesday that would allow terminally ill patients to obtain prescriptions for lethal doses of drugs, making Maine the latest state to legalize medication-assisted suicide.
Marijuana tax, license and fee revenue has reached $1.02 billion, and marijuana sales over $6.5 billion, the Colorado Department of Revenue announced in a news release.
Starting in 2020, it will be illegal for employers in Nevada to refuse to hire applicants based on positive results for pot in pre-employment drug testing, thanks to a new law signed by Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat.
Record rainfall has led to the persistent flooding this year.
The 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned criminal convictions for five Sacramento defendants who had been caught with marijuana in their prison cells.
A record number of asylum seekers are crossing the border into the United States, and the U.S. Border Patrol does not have enough holding cell space for families.
The lawsuit argues that the merger would create a company that become the largest wireless company in the U.S., with the effect of "diminished competition, higher prices, and reduced quality and innovation."
Although the rates of the so-called deaths of despair are up nationally, the report's investigators were particularly struck by regional differences in the rates.
Democrats, in control of both the Senate and Assembly for the first time in nearly a decade, have spent weeks mulling over a nine-bill package that would radically reform regulations in favor of renters.
In September, major hotel brands -- including Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt -- agreed to provide the buttons to their employees after hotel workers with the union Unite Here held protests across the country calling for panic buttons and other safety measures.
After winning the special election, Morrissey said voters were not worried about the drama that landed him in jail.
Supporters of the bill said the measure is necessary to protect religious freedom.
The West Virginia Senate passed a bill that would not only punish teachers for protesting but also includes a charter school provision they recently fought to defeat. The House could vote on it as early as Monday.
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The governors of Kentucky, New Jersey and West Virginia face different controversies, but they're all wealthy businessmen who had never before held elected office.
Amid concerns over "fake" exemptions, California is debating a bill that would make public health officials sign off on them like they do in other states. Doctors support the legislation, but the Democratic governor has criticized it.
A staunch defender of abortion rights and Maine's first female governor, Janet Mills introduced the bill this year and supported a similar measure last legislative session when she was serving as attorney general.
The treatment consists of taking a medication to suppress or block the production of testosterone.
A new state law allowing Nevada to test out a limited marijuana banking system is expected to bring some relief to the state's booming cannabis industry where dispensaries and other businesses are forced to deal in cash.
A St. Louis judge has ordered that Missouri's sole outpatient abortion provider -- the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis -- be allowed to keep its doors open for now.
Emboldened by encouraging internal poll numbers and growing support from fellow Democrats — though most never retracted their calls for him to step down — Gov. Ralph Northam is becoming more assertive.
The bill, which takes effect before the 2020 election, makes it drastically harder to collect enough signatures to make it onto voters’ ballots.
The governor's opposition does not kill the project but it does set up political hurdles that figure to be formidable.
The seat is currently held by Councilman Dwight Boykins, who recently filed paperwork indicating he will run for mayor, according to earlier reports in the Houston Chronicle.
It's the first state where the legislature -- not voters -- legalized cannabis sales. But that's not all that makes it unique.
Since the Black Lives Matter movement gained prominence in 2013, much of the public focus has been on African Americans. But broader racial and ethnic coalitions pushed the recent changes in policing practices in a handful of states.
Last month, Alabama lawmakers considered a bill that addressed ending parental rights in cases of rape that result in conception, but the legislature removed that language, limiting the law to cases in which people sexually assault their children.
The state Department of Community Health said the 17,000 had simply not responded to renewal notices informing them how to continue their coverage.
The new law, which goes into effect on July 1, 2020, would require providers to ask for permission before they sell or share any of their customers' data to a third party.
The legislation addresses “not only the tragedy that took place at Santa Fe,” Gov. Greg Abbott said, “but will do more than Texas has ever done to make schools safer places for our students, for our educators, for our parents and families.”
The agreement includes funding to let young undocumented young adults under age 26 enroll in Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income Californians. But it doesn’t extend that eligibility to undocumented seniors, as state senators had proposed.
Jada Andrews-Sullivan will represent District 2, Adriana Rocha Garcia will represent District 4 and Melissa Cabello Havrda will represent District 6.
As police now routinely seek access to people’s cellphones, privacy advocates see a dangerous erosion of Americans’ rights, with courts scrambling to keep up.
The move could cut costs and mark a broader change that influences nuclear sites across the country. But some nuclear watchers have warned it could also make Americans less safe.
Lawmakers gave final passage Tuesday to the measure aimed at defending abortion bans in the future, part of a wave of abortion bills being passed in Louisiana and across the country this year.
The state Supreme Court reaffirmed a ruling it made in 2017, after the U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back to Washington to determine whether it had been handled with "religious neutrality," as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
In 1999, 13 people were killed by two students in a mass shooting at the school in Littleton, Colorado. Nearly two dozen others were injured.
Prior to her time in the Senate, Linda Collins-Smith served one term in the state House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. While she was elected as a Democrat, she swapped parties just months after taking office.
The University of Alabama is expected to return a $21.5 million donation it received in September after the donor advised women against attending the school because of the state's new abortion ban, according to The Associated Press.
Commissioner James O'Neill began his briefing on the security measures for this year's Pride Month events, which include the June 30 Pride March, by addressing the NYPD's actions at the Greenwich Village bar in 1969.
As transit agencies move away from fossil fuels, they are figuring out which environmentally friendly option is right for them.
Whether it's violence like the Virginia Beach shooting at a municipal building, or danger due to the nature of the job, government workers lack health and safety protections in nearly half the states.
The state, which has worse credit than any other and has had chronic budget deficits, passed a fiscal plan this week that relies on new revenue sources to help pay down its massive debt.
Competition for talent is going to intensify. Government needs new approaches to how it compensates its workforce.
The North Carolina House on Wednesday failed to block Cooper's veto of Senate Bill 359, which would bring new penalties for medical professionals who allow abortion survivors to die.
Oregon's seven Electoral College votes could one day be awarded to a candidate who did not win the most votes in Oregon.
