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Governors like Mitt Romney have typically lost popularity at home when they made a run for the presidency. Will the current governors being talked about as potential 2016 candidates suffer the same fate?
With far too little water in some places and far too much in others, U.S. governments can no longer ignore climate change.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced a new grading system to evaluate whether states are meeting the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act -- and the first year's results aren't good.
As suburban poverty rises, cities aren’t as enthusiastic about annexing the suburbs anymore.
The Sandusky probe report is less critical than Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who makes new charges.
The city council puts two preschool plans on November ballot.
Health officials say the immigrant surge is a medical crisis because of the conditions where people are housed.
Gov. Pat Quinn signed a "non-binding advisory referendum" asking voters whether or not they would like to increase the wage from $8.25 to $10 an hour.
California's public universities have become so expensive that under a new program aid will come to families that earn up to $150,000 annually.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, calling for immediate action to stop the flow of Central Americans attempting to cross illegally into the United States, because many children will die during the desert journey.
Percent increase in cost allowed for rent-stabilized apartments in New York City. The city's Rent Guidelines Board rejected a rent freeze, though landlords argue the increase isn't enough.
New York Public Library President Tony Marx said the project is a way to “leak” the Internet in a meaningful and pervasive way.
Factor by which the number of religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions for kindergarten students increased in Ohio between 2000 and 2014. The state is now struggling to contain a measles outbreak.
Number of California eighth graders given an essay assignment this year about whether the Holocaust occurred.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, in a cease-and-desist letter to Monkey Parking, a mobile app that allowed people to auction off public parking spaces that they were using to nearby drivers.
Gov. Rick Scott signed into law Monday a sweeping overhaul of Florida's long-troubled child welfare agency, discarding a decade-old policy that favored the rights of parents over those of neglected and abused children -- even as hundreds of infants and toddlers died gruesome and preventable deaths.
The nation's highest court on Monday turned down Wisconsin's bid to reinstate a state law requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, leaving the rule blocked for now amid an ongoing legal challenge.
The U.S. Supreme Court today spurned New Jersey's long effort to legalize sports betting, handing another defeat to Gov. Chris Christie and lawmakers who view it as a way to revive Atlantic City and the state's ailing racetracks.
The Virginia General Assembly completed work late Monday on a two-year, $96 billion state budget, averting a government shutdown and at least temporarily thwarting Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s key priority of expanding health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
Investigations into the Christie administration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have zeroed in on possible securities law violations stemming from a $1.8 billion road repair agreement in 2011, according to people briefed on the matter.
The Internet giant quietly has planted its political roots in places far beyond the Beltway — in state legislatures and city councils that have become hotbeds for tech policy fights.
Oklahoma holds an unusually busy primary election Tuesday as voters pick nominees for two U.S. Senate seats, several competitive U.S. House seats, legislative posts and statewide offices, including governor.
Voters on Tuesday will pick their parties' choice to be South Carolina's education superintendent, while Republicans will also pick their lieutenant governor nominee.
Tom Tancredo, the firebrand former congressman, Harley-Davidson biker and perennial headache for Colorado’s Republican leaders, was taking fire from all sides last week in the final days of his primary campaign for governor.
The Loveland proposal has been the subject of intense legal wrangling and a fractious messaging war that is raging at full steam, where house mailboxes and television and radio airwaves are filled to brimming with messages.
The Maryland gubernatorial race is perhaps the roughest Democratic primary out there.
Republican state Sen. Evan Vickers is expected to face a stiff challenge from former lawmaker Casey Anderson in his southern Utah district in one of seven contested legislative races during Tuesday’s primary election.
Cities should strive to provide recreation for vulnerable populations.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors backed resolutions aimed at preserving equal access to the Internet, reducing income inequality and slowing climate change at the group's annual conference in Dallas.
With elections looming, state lawmakers mostly left transportation funding alone.
