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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.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed two bills supporting immigrants living in Oregon at the annual May Day rally Tuesday.
The city emerged from state oversight Monday in a historic milestone that ends the last vestige of Detroit’s bankruptcy and marks the first time in four decades that the city has full control of government operations.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed a $28.9 billion state budget into law.
Nashvillians resoundingly defeated a controversial plan that would have raised four taxes to fund a transit system anchored by light trail, voting against the historic referendum by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.
The Trump administration on Tuesday exempted most of southeast Wisconsin from the latest federal limits on lung-damaging smog pollution, delivering a political victory to Gov. Scott Walker as he makes a new Foxconn Technology Group factory the centerpiece of his re-election campaign.
Leading a seven-state coalition, Texas will sue the federal government to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects unauthorized immigrants who came to the country as children, Attorney General Ken Paxton's office announced Tuesday.
Abdul Khadir Muhammad, a representative for Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, at an event organized to defend D.C. councilmember Trayon White. White has been under fire for the last month over anti-Semitic comments he made on his Facebook page, promulgating conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the weather. Muhammad's comments resulted in the resignation of a mayoral appointee named Joshua Lopez, who organized the event where Muhammad spoke. Lopez held the speakerphone as Muhammad called councilwoman Elissa Silverman a "fake jew." He says he did not ask Muhammad to leave because he wanted to avoid a physical altercation.
The median home price in previously redlined neighborhoods as of 2017. This is two-and-one-half times less than the median home price in the neighborhoods favored by this 1930s federal lending policy.
Less than a week after a conservative think tank sued Austin over the city's paid sick leave ordinance, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has thrown the state's support behind the suit, calling the ordinance "unlawful."
Add Minnesota to the growing list of states that will no longer tolerate pet owners trying to pass off their furry or feathered friends as service animals when they have never received any such training