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Natalie Delgadillo

Natalie Delgadillo is Governing's Web Editor. She's an editor and writer living in Washington, D.C., and her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Bloomberg's CityLab, and The Atlantic. She was previously the managing editor of DCist.

The cost of the Gateway Program, a massive undertaking to add tunnels, replace old bridges and expand Penn Station in New York City. Writer Daniel C. Vock stressed that it would be "one of the most expensive infrastructure ventures in the history of the United States."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaking about Phil Murphy, the Democratic contender for the state's governor's race. Current polls show Murphy up by about 15 points over his Republican challenger, even as he has embraced increasingly left ideas. The election is next Tuesday.
Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a bill into law that will expand the reach of a highly trained group of volunteer cybersecurity experts from the public and private sectors.
In the early months of 2016, as U.S. overdose deaths were on track to break records and the number of Texas infants born addicted to opioid painkillers climbed steadily higher, Gov. Greg Abbott was courting a massive pharmaceutical company, McKesson, with a multimillion-dollar offer.
Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, a Republican, is facing another lawsuit over the state’s process for removing voters from registration lists.
On Nov. 7, the people of Maine will vote on whether or not to expand Medicaid through a citizen's initiative question, giving voters a final say by possibly circumventing the governor's prior refusals after legislators failed to override his previous vetoes.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has implemented a requirement that people who apply for assistance from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program pass a drug screening.
Together, in one of the first statewide races of the Trump era, Democrat Phil Murphy and Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno are demolishing the conventional wisdom that centrists win in New Jersey.
States are starting to require it. Ironically, police advocates and groups like Black Lives Matter agree that the new laws are problematic.
They're the most vulnerable to disasters, but they don't have to be.