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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.

A new report documents what environmental advocates say has been happening for decades: The federal government fails to protect Americans from potentially cancer-causing chemicals. And they have little hope that will change anytime soon.
It's hard to fix a problem you can't see. So Maryland made its lack of healthy food options very visible.
"It clearly shows that something is going wrong in that system when a grandmother is raising her hands like she might be shot," says author and professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve.
Although the disaster spurred federal, state and local authorities to put immigration enforcement on pause, many undocumented people are still fearful and likely to be left behind in the recovery.
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday, marking the administration's latest departure from its predecessor's policing policies.
California recently outlawed the practice, but it's unlikely to change immigration officers' behavior. The legislation highlights the tactic's murky legality.
Tiana Nobile, who initially wasn't allowed to get married because she had her citizenship paperwork, passport and driver’s license but no birth certificate. A Louisiana judge, however, recently struck down a state law requiring birth certificates in order to issue a marriage license.
The hole in the Texas legislature's 2018 budget. It's a lot of money but not an immediate problem. State officials won't have to reckon with the consequences of this shortfall until January 2019.
Delaware voters soon will cast their ballots on new voting machines. But exactly when – and what those machines will look like – remains to be seen.
Like Medicaid programs in many states that want more budgeting certainty or hope to save money, Medi-Cal is shifting many patients with complex conditions into managed care plans.