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New York City's decade-long, multi-billion dollar effort to overhaul its 911 system is $700 million over budget and years behind schedule due to a series of mistakes made by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, according to a Department of Investigation report.
State lawmakers in California introduced legislation Wednesday that would require children to be fully vaccinated before going to school, a response to a measles outbreak that started in Southern California and has reached 107 cases in 14 states.
Engineers and transportation safety experts around the world are working to reduce the dangers of grade-level rail crossings like the one in Valhalla, N.Y., that was the scene of a deadly accident Tuesday evening. But human behavior and the laws of physics can defeat even the safest system, researchers say.
After pledging last month to cut more than 6 percent from state agency spending, Gov. Bill Walker on Thursday revealed just how he’d do that, releasing a proposal that trims $240 million in part by cutting 250 of the state’s 22,000 full-time employees.
Federal investigators are looking into a former county prosecutor’s allegation in a lawsuit that he was fired because he complained about the dropping of an indictment that involved a donor to Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was admitted to an Ann Arbor area hospital Thursday with a blood clot in his right leg, where he has been wearing a protective boot due to a torn Achilles tendon, a spokeswoman said.
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Scott Walker changes would have struck pieces about state outreach, improving the human condition and pursuing truth in favor of more narrowly defining state campuses as agents of workforce development.
North Carolina's governor announced plans to create jobs, raise both expectations and rewards for educators, undertake ambitious transportation improvements.
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Gov. Rick Scott and his cabinet face a case alleging that they broke the state's Sunshine Law when they fired Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey.
At a Congressional hearing, the Indiana governor, who could be a presidential contender, touted his state as a national leader and expressed his support for diminishing the federal role in schools.
Rick Snyder backer John Yob joins the fight against a sales tax hike proposed by the politician he twice helped elect to office.
Gov.John Kitzhaber is already enacting policies Cylvia Hayes was paid to promote.
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Gov. Larry Hogan used his first State of the State address to follow through on a campaign promise, vowing Wednesday to push for tax relief for small businesses, motorists and some retirees, and to seek repeal of a controversial stormwater fee.
Declaring it's "make or break time," Gov. Bruce Rauner used his first State of the State speech Wednesday to lay out a comprehensive conservative agenda aimed at repairing the state by helping businesses while putting the brakes on the power of organized labor.
Gov. Bruce Rauner wants to give cities, towns and counties the authority to file for bankruptcy protection, a move that could give local governments a stronger foothold when negotiating with local police and fire officials over costly pension obligations.
A case headed for a Staten Island courtroom on Thursday that seeks to unlock grand jury evidence in the police killing of Eric Garner is part of a national push to pry from law enforcement information long kept secret.
Health insurance giant Anthem Inc. said late Wednesday that hackers had breached its computer system and the personal information of tens of millions of customers and employees was possibly at risk.
Cleveland police have begun wearing body cameras as part of a program to outfit 1,500 officers with the devices, the department announced Wednesday, nearly 10 weeks after a city police officer shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old who was holding a toy gun.
In 1993, Lisa Bashert's partner proposed to her by phone, popping the question while she was at work.
Tennessee lawmakers ended the special legislative session called by Gov. Bill Haslam to consider his health insurance plan for the working poor Wednesday afternoon after a Senate committee killed the plan on a 4-7 vote.
In the past decade, heroin abuse has exploded—and it is hitting white people in suburbs and rural areas particularly hard. As the demographics of heroin use have changed, so have states’ efforts to combat the problem.
Four questions are all you need. They're simple, but they're not easy.
Municipalities' increasing reliance on bank deals, which governments can legally hide from investors for more than a year, has spurred calls for better transparency.
Gov. Phil Bryant touted the Mississippi economy during his annual State of the State address Wednesday night, but also announced programs that he said would help the state move to "a new level."
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Gov. Pete Ricketts proposed strengthening the state economy, cutting taxes, cutting regulations, and expanding educational opportunities in his first State of the State address.
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Gov. Mary Fallin, in her annual state of the state speech, urged lawmakers to improve the way the state budget is drawn up so that priority areas of education, public safety and health can be adequately funded.
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His idea is to eliminate the estate tax and cut the Maine income tax by more than half a billion dollars annually by 2019.
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Patrick Cannon, now serving 44 months at a federal prison camp in West Virginia, was indicted this week for an illegal vote he cast last fall.
Outside of the state Gov. John Kasich barely registers in presidential polls.
Gov. Rick Scott wants to repeal a controversial hospital funding law under which counties that use local dollars to attract federal matching funds have to share the money with counties that don't raise local funds.
New Sublette County Sheriff Stephen Haskell will require all deputies to wear black trousers, a tan shirt, black boots and a black ball cap.
The Environmental Protection Agency is calling on the State Department to rethink its conclusion that construction of the Keystone XL pipeline would have minimal impact on climate change, saying the pipeline could significantly increase greenhouse gases.
Arizona's treatment of foster children is so bad it actually puts kids at risk of greater harm, says a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday against the directors of the Arizona Department of Child Safety and the Department of Health Services.
To bridge a budget chasm, Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday proposed holding the line on local property taxes and school spending, cutting public universities and expanding private K-12 voucher schools using money otherwise earmarked for public education.
That is the message that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is delivering as he tours the state with his budget proposal, laying on the line what may be his proudest accomplishment of more than four years in office -- on-time passage of the state budget.
About a month after a white officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., the city’s assistant police chief, Al Eickhoff, took to Google and searched under the words “less lethal.”
Michael K. Young has built a reputation for making sure that research done at the universities he led could find its way to the market.
Pledging anew to replace the federal health law that President Barack Obama signed five years ago, House Republicans passed yet another bill Tuesday to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Why Florida is number one in ACA enrollment despite GOP opposition.
Will Vermont become the East Coast hub of marijuana tourism?
Gov. Bill Haslam urged skeptical state Republican lawmakers Monday night to set aside the "easy political argument" against his Insure Tennessee proposal and embrace it as conservatives' opportunity to improve people's lives while attacking soaring health care costs.
Hawaii lawmakers are proposing legislation to study state laws with the goal of creating a state-owned bank to assist homeowners who are having trouble making their mortgage payments.
Federal transportation officials have preliminarily agreed to help fund a $150 million downtown Sacramento streetcar project this year, as long as Sacramento can come up with local matching funds in the next few months, according to local officials with knowledge of the federal plans.
Voting mostly along party lines, the state House rejected an amendment that would have made private e-mails by public officials about official state business open to public scrutiny.
When raising campaign cash last year, prosecutors say, former Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord had a simple and crude message:
Two leading Republican presidential hopefuls waded into the argument over childhood vaccinations Monday, with Sen. Rand Paul declaring that he had heard of "many tragic cases" of children suffering harm after receiving shots and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie saying parents should be given a choice on the issue.
Map shows new data from a report on the economy's advanced industries
A new study takes a novel approach in identifying types of jobs vital to prosperity, finding some regional economies lag behind others.
The popular GOP governor wants to increase taxes to pay for schools and other improvements, after 80 percent of voters rejected a tax hike on the ballot in November.
USDA orders zoo to stop the practice, which may cause elephant anxiety.
The president's budget would be a boon in a host of areas but also includes cuts to popular programs.
As the popularity of electronic cigarettes continues to grow, California’s top public health official warned residents Wednesday about their dangers and announced a new campaign to reduce their use.
The Philadelphia School District plans to hire at least 400 teachers for the 2015-16 school yea
The Arkansas Senate voted Thursday to continue the state's compromise Medicaid expansion another year and create a task force to look at alternatives for the hundreds of thousands of people receiving coverage through the first-in-the-nation initiative.
Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins remains heavily sedated and in critical condition at the University of Toledo Medical Center, the former Medical College of Ohio, following his hospitalization for cardiac arrest, a city official said tonight.
Gov. Bruce Rauner faces an immediate test of his ability to work through the challenges of running cash-strapped Illinois now that the state has run out of money for a popular subsidized day care program.
Many low-income, working adults are caught in what experts call the coverage gap, eligible for neither federal subsidies nor Medicaid because they live in states that have declined to expand Medicaid under the health care law.
Just about everyone agrees that performance budgeting is good for government. But making it work in practice is tricky.
Police in a Maryland county combined analytics with aggressive goals to put a serious dent in armed robberies.
Rene "Boxer" Enriquez was taken downtown to be the featured speaker at a meeting _ arranged by police _ with a private group of prominent business leaders and local law enforcement officials.
The former budget analyst is set to lead assembly as its first black speaker.
Hoping to increase competition and lower premiums, three states allow consumers to buy health coverage from out-of-state insurers and more are trying. But the laws have fallen short of expectations.
The U.S. Secretary of State will have to pay $50 for failing to shovel snow around his Beacon Hill mansion.
State Treasurer Rob McCord steps down amid signs of federal probe.
Wealthy residents remain in the city at a higher rate than poor residents, according to a new D.C. government report.
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New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney accused Gov. Christie on Thursday of trying to "force" Atlantic City into bankruptcy, and said he would sue to block such a move.
After three weeks and nearly 50 amendment votes, the Senate on Thursday approved legislation to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Weighing a 2016 run, Paul has added Texas GOP Chairman Steve Munisteri as a senior adviser.
Fulfilling a campaign promise, Gov. Wolf on Thursday reinstated a moratorium on natural gas drilling on state parklands. It came less than a year after his predecessor lifted the ban.
At least seven cases of measles connected to the Disneyland outbreak have been confirmed around Phoenix.
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H.B. 868, also known as the Teacher’s Protection Act, would authorize instructors to use “force or deadly force on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored event in defense of the educator’s person or in defense of students of the school that employs the educator.”
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From expanding health coverage to 70,000 low-income Montanans to a $400 million infrastructure plan Gov. Steve Bullock said will create 4,000 jobs, the first-term Democrat urged the GOP-controlled Legislature to overlook partisanship and adopt his wide-ranging agenda.
A Muslim group has asked Texas House Speaker Joe Straus whether state Rep. Molly White violated ethics rules by instructing her staff to ask Muslim visitors to her office to declare their allegiance to the United States.
Gov. Gary Herbert urged investment in what he called Utah's next "greatest generation" in his State of the State speech Wednesday night by addressing needs including education, transportation and health care for the poor.
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The Congressional Budget Office expects the economy to grow at an even slower rate than it has in the past.
The state would become one of just a handful to issue "enhanced driver's licenses" to cross borders.
They drive drive population growth in most states, but the relatively low percentage of them earning college degrees is becoming a pressing concern.
The city's port-a-potty program offers the homeless privacy and cleanliness.
America’s Playground recently had its credit rating downgraded to junk status, and the state is unwilling to take over its finances.
A sharply divided state Board of Education voted 5-4 Wednesday to take immediate control of the Little Rock School District.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel still has a ways to go to persuade city voters to give him a second term next month and allow him to avoid a politically risky runoff contest in April, according to a new Chicago Tribune poll.
Teacher pension plans across the country are staggering from a half-trillion dollars in debt. Put in perspective, that's more than $10,000 worth of debt for every student in the nation's primary and secondary schools.
Ten years after California voters passed Proposition 63’s tax on millionaires to fund programs for the mentally ill, the state cannot document whether billions of dollars in funding have improved residents’ lives, according to a new report by the Little Hoover Commission.
As the nation waits for the Supreme Court to decide whether same-sex marriages should be legal nationwide, another, more mundane front has opened in the wedding wars: the offices of the state and local officials who perform civil marriages and issue licenses.
Alabama’s only openly gay state legislator, Rep. Patricia Todd (D), expanded on the threat she made over the weekend in a Facebook update in which she said she’d out the marital infidelities of straight anti-gay politicians who threatened to derail marriage equality in the state.
Most often, lottery officials say, scams involve retailers who are cashing in winning tickets for a fee for people who don't want to collect their jackpots personally because they owe back taxes, child support payments or other debts that states generally deduct from lottery winnings.
Women are much more sensitive to location. Men were 14 points more likely to choose the state legislature when it was close by. Women were 28 points more likely.
The Houston-Galveston contract also was used by Fort Worth and Washington, D.C., to award Motorola deals worth tens of millions of dollars without taking bids from other vendors.
In Georgia, to prove that a death row inmate has an intellectual disability, the inmate's attorneys must show that he is disabled "beyond a reasonable doubt." This is the toughest standard of proof in the nation.
Gov. Mike Pence said Tuesday he soon will be "clarifying" what his Just IN news site will be doing and called reports on the plan an "understandable misunderstanding."
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is looking for a few farmers interested in growing industrial hemp.
A judge on Tuesday rejected former Gov. Rick Perry’s attempt to throw out a two-count indictment against him, saying it's too early in the case to challenge the constitutionality of the charges.
Assembly Democrats on Tuesday night settled on a plan to oust Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver next week, ending the political career of the longtime state government power broker whose rapid fall came just days after his arrest on federal corruption charges.
A fee charged to states, some local governments and universities under Obamacare is unconstitutional, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday.
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Want to know how to do less with less? Activity-based costing has great promise.
Transit agencies are finally catching up to the private sector’s use of social media to improve their systems and increase the public’s trust in them.
