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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.

Taxes on marijuana would hit to 28 percent under the bill Massachusetts House lawmakers plan to propose and take up this week. A legalization advocacy group called the tax hike "irrational" and a boost to the black market.
Iowa wants help from the federal government to bail out the state's individual health insurance market, which has emerged as a leading example of troubles with the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA).
A proposed ban on private prisons in Nevada will not move forward after Gov. Brian Sandoval’s veto.
The head of the Michigan health department was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter, the highest-ranking member of Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration to be snagged in a criminal investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water.
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The percentage of Georgia voters that said they were closely following the House special election between Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff in a poll by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Sixty-four percent said they were following the race "very closely," and 52 percent said they thought the race was more important than past elections.
Alison Dreith, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri, referring to Missouri state Rep Mike Moon, who released a video of himself killing a chicken to highlight his bill to ban abortion in the state. Dreith went on to say that "we will not let [Moon] use the rights of women across Missouri as some kind of political prop. His call to ban abortion is disturbing and dangerous, no matter what he does with that chicken."
Louisiana and other Southern states have the highest rates of new HIV and AIDS diagnoses, the largest percentage of people living with the disease, and the most people dying from it.
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday signed into law a controversial bill that changes how state law enforcement seize money and property suspected of being linked to crimes, despite pressure from Colorado sheriffs and police chiefs who say the measure will hurt investigations.
More than half of voters said the special election is more important than typical campaigns.
Low-level offenders who have been arrested and can't come up with enough money to get out of jail can get a rehearing of their bail amount, under a plan signed into law Friday by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.