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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.

State politicians on both sides of the aisle have increasingly worked to curb the practice. Now, the attorney general may have made their efforts pointless.
Environmental advocacy is difficult in the Trump era. In rural areas, it's even harder. “To be personally attacked for speaking up, to be silenced, it was devastating to me," says one resident who tried to fight fracking in her rural Pennsylvania county.
Businesses and governments are going cashless. Anti-poverty advocates say the change is problematic for low-income people, but they disagree on how to solve it.
Erwin, Tenn., was struggling. Then its mayor did something many public officials usually don't: She listened to young people.
They're too expensive for many low-income families, but courts recently ruled that the federal government can’t regulate their cost. States still can.
They have pledged to carry out the landmark accord on behalf of America. We asked environmental experts for the most effective and politically practical ways they can help do that.
The number of children in Maine that lack health insurance. That's 6 percent of all children in the state, a 50 percent increase from 2010, when only 4 percent of kids were uninsured. Even as the rates of uninsured children across the nation have dropped, those in Maine continue to climb.
Nick Lyon, the Michigan health and human services director, who was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter for his role in the Flint water crisis. According to charging documents, Lyon knew about an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease due to contaminated water in 2015, but said nothing to the public until a year later. Twelve people died in the outbreak. He also allegedly said "[we] can't save everyone."
The number of Maine children without health insurance is climbing after years of declines, even though fewer live in poverty, a new report found.
Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders announced a budget deal Tuesday that strips University of California President Janet Napolitano's office of some of its financial autonomy, limits the authority of the embattled Board of Equalization, increases tax credits for the poor and saves the Middle Class Scholarship program at public universities.