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Opponents say a ballot question asking Missouri voters Tuesday whether they support the right to farm is a misleading attempt to exempt agribusiness from future regulations.
Facing ballooning costs for a $1,000 pill to treat hepatitis C, Illinois' Medicaid program is putting tight restrictions in place, including requiring patients to meet 25 criteria and get prior approval before the government program will pay for the new drug.
Massachusetts is failing to properly staff and track hundreds of state boards, committees, and commissions, a Senate panel concluded in a report released Wednesday, resulting in what some call “zombie boards” that never meet.
Idaho Republicans are poised to elect a new party leader after spending months entrenched in political infighting over who should have control of the state's GOP.
In a huge victory for Gov. Jerry Brown, a panel of appellate court judges Thursday affirmed the state's bullet train funding plan, paving the way for California to sell $8.2 billion in bonds it needs to construct the embattled San Francisco to Los Angeles rail line.
Minnesota is seeing its first minimum wage increase in nearly a decade.
The nation’s highway and mass transit programs can breathe easy for another 10 months after Senate Democrats relented Thursday and cleared a GOP-crafted $11 billion extension they had overwhelmingly rejected two days ago.
Full results and data for Governing's report on pedestrian safety in poorer neighborhoods
The other 42 states will let the Medicaid pay rates revert back to their 2012 levels. The pay raise was supposed to allow low-income people enrolling in the expanding insurance program to have access to a physician.
Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System is looking to private clinics in the Baltimore region to deal with primary-care backlog.
At the city's conclusion of the city inaugural entrepreneur-in-residence program, departments and startups showed fresh pilot programs, prototypes and fully developed products.
The number of official holidays that will be celebrated in Puerto Rico next year -- down from 19 this year because of complaints that too many holidays cost the government millions in lost productivity.
David Keim, spokesman for Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that works for the U.S. Department of Energy. ORNL cancelled plans for a “Southern Accent Reduction” class because of objections from lab staff members.
A Facebook post from the Lockport, N.Y., Police Department, after a local TV news reporter questioned the department’s description of a suspect as “negro-dark.”
The court upholds Act 10, the 2011 law repealing most union bargaining for most public employees in Wisconsin, finding that collective bargaining is not a fundamental right under the constitution.
As the housing agency socks away millions, HUD calls on the city to expand vouchers to provide more housing for the poor.
Controversial coal mine regulations go into effect Friday.
Pot money is going to the state's public schools to help fund pricey capital projects.
Percent of marijuana tickets issued by the city of Seattle in the first six months of 2014 that were written by a single police officer. The officer has been reassigned.
Many patients don’t understand the instructions on the label on their prescriptions. The California’s Board of Pharmacy will discuss new regulations that would require pharmacies in California to provide translated labels on prescription drug bottles.
The warning, in a sharply worded letter from Mr. Bharara’s office, came after several members of the panel issued public statements defending the governor’s handling of the panel, known as the Moreland Commission, which Mr. Cuomo created last year with promises of cleaning up corruption in state politics but shut down abruptly in March.
Facing cuts of more than $850 million for Tennessee highway and infrastructure improvements, state and local leaders are bracing for potentially catastrophic economic effects that could put at least 1,000 jobs at risk and slow the state's economy.
House and Senate budget writers reached agreement Tuesday on a $21.3 billion state spending plan that averts significant cuts to Medicaid but leaves unresolved a major overhaul of the health insurance program for the poor.
The New York State Sheriffs’ Association has recommended that its members refuse requests by federal immigration authorities to hold foreign-born detainees for additional time so that they can be investigated for immigration-related offenses.
Governor Deval Patrick today signed a bill that tightens security regulations regarding protests and demonstrations at abortion clinics in Massachusetts.
Gov. Christie on Wednesday urged lawmakers to vote for changes he says are needed to reverse the "utter failure" of New Jersey's bail system, declaring that "we are nearly out of time to act."
See detailed pedestrian fatality data for larger counties.
In a response to a Los Angeles RFI for citywide broadband, Dutch start up Angie Communications said it would also build and operate a nationwide 4G network and a Wi-Fi network that reaches 90 percent of the population. But some are skeptical of the ambitious plan.
A new report shows how states could have weathered the recession better.
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