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In the state's drought, people speak up about wasteful practices like watering a lawn.
Unnamed "senior District official" quoted in a withering 115-page audit of the three agencies that issue Washington, D.C.'s parking tickets. The audit portrayed parking ticketing in the city as arbitrary and inconsistent.
Percent of consumers aged 18 to 29 who don't have a credit card, compared to only a third of Americans over 30. About two-thirds of consumers with more than one credit card are over 50.
Slogan planned by ride-share company Hailo to promote its brief price slash and capture some of Uber's business. The company has hired Jimmy McMillan, who ran for governor of New York in 2010 under the slogan "The Rent Is Too Damn High," to make commercials and ride around Washington, D.C., in a float to promote it.
Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's antipoverty plan may be worth considering.
The New York City Police Department outlined a new tactical training program on Monday as the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio continues its efforts to mend the fractured relationship between the nation’s largest police force and the city’s minority communities.
As a similar bill languishes in Congress, Delaware is the latest in a growing number of states and localities to pass what lawmakers call “common sense” legislation to keep pregnant women working with certain accommodations, if warranted, as long as they don’t pose undue hardship on businesses.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe unveiled a stopgap package of health care initiatives Monday that he said will improve the lives of more than 200,000 Virginians in the absence of an expanded Medicaid program.
After weeks of primaries and now just 56 days away from Election Day, it’s time for the final primer for the last primary day of the season.
The Ferguson City Council announced plans Monday to make changes designed to reduce court fine revenue, reform court procedures and start a Citizen Review Board that will help keep an eye on and guide the police department.
When the Christie administration declared on Monday that, effective immediately, casinos and horse racetracks may legally offer sports betting, legislators were quick to welcome the move.
Public-private partnerships are still relatively new for most U.S. states, but analysts anticipate they will become more common.
The Democratic Party is likely to gain a few seats after the GOP's big gains in 2010.
Parents increasingly decide not to get their kindergartners vaccinated.
The largest government infusion of cash into the U.S. economy in generations - the 2009 stimulus - was riddled with a massive labor scheme that harmed workers and cheated unsuspecting American taxpayers.
The Goldwater statue, created for the National Statuary Hall, is still stranded in Phoenix.
Rich people and corporations who keep money in foreign tax havens cost states $39.8 billion in 2011. Jack Lew says its time to stop them.
The number of gubernatorial elections that are too close to call has nearly doubled over the past few months.
The GOP has more seats in jeopardy since the party's big gains in 2010.
Voters in Massachusetts will decide in November whether to make paid sick time a required benefit for most workers after California became only the second state to do so Wednesday.
Louisville, Nashville and Philadelphia move forward with anti-poverty plans.
Rick Lewis, chief of emergency medical services at South Metro Fire Rescue Authority in Centennial, Colo., which sends ambulance crews to provide care for some people on-site instead of having all patients come to the ER in an ambulance.
The Democratic Party plans to launch a political ad on Monday marking the one-year anniversary of "Bridgegate" to remind voters of the scandal that ensnared top aides of Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a likely 2016 White House contender.
Reacting to news that state Sen. Wendy Davis had two abortions for medical reasons, including one because brain damage was detected in her unborn child, Texas’ leading anti-abortion groups reiterated their opposition to the termination of pregnancies, including ones where severe disabilities can be detected in a fetus.
Police crowd-control techniques and military-like equipment used in response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting death of Michael Brown have sparked a national conversation about the relationship between police and the civilians they’re charged with protecting.
In preliminary but encouraging news for consumers and taxpayers, insurance filings show that average premiums will decline slightly next year in 16 major cities for a benchmark Obamacare plan.
With President Obama deciding not to take executive action on immigration until after the November election, some Democrats took to the Sunday talk shows to voice their frustration with him and with Congress' continued inaction.
Years ago, the now-convicted politician seemed honest and straightforward.
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