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The governor indicates that the federal government says there's "no deal breaker" in his proposed health-care expansion plan.
Amazon will begin collecting sales tax in Florida on May 1.
The California governor pushes for a rainy day fund, but it'll be a tough political battle to get the policy he wants.
Illinois could be first state to outlaw microbeads, the tiny plastic particles found in many facial cleansers and soaps.
The results of state-based paid leave have been mixed.
Mayor Nutter signed an executive order to end the city's compliance with federal agents' requests to hold arrested immigrants who otherwise would be released pending trial.
As he continues trying to shift attention from the scandal gnawing at his administration, Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday expressed support for a pair of controversial proposals: allowing unlimited campaign donations and scrapping a home sellers fee that produces big bucks for the state budget.
The D.C. Council will sue Mayor Vincent C. Gray and the city’s chief financial officer, the council chairman said Wednesday, setting up the first such legal showdown between the city’s two branches of government in a decade.
The former city boss could be a free man in six years with time off for good behavior.
A federal judge on Wednesday overturned a North Dakota law that bans abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before many women know they're pregnant.
For its most provocative investigative target, an anticorruption commission appointed last year by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo set out to scrutinize the millions of dollars earned by New York legislators who also have other jobs.
After Mesa, Ariz., Mayor Scott Smith stepped down from the presidency to run for governor, Johnson assumed the top position this week for the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
One state university could get $15 million in federal money to support programs that train police how to address situations like the recent Fort Hood shooting.
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, implying that teachers are already earning too much money.
A resource recovery rate of 100 percent may be a worthwhile goal, but there are plenty of challenges facing governments that want to achieve it.
Jezebel's Rebecca Rose, on the name of a Colorado vending machine to be stocked with marijuana products that will be located outside Montana Steakhouse in Avon, Colo.
In several states, public employees anticipated pay raises this year. But in some states, all they're left with is disappointment.
Mayor Ed Murray says the panel needs to reach a deal on $15 minimum wage plan, or he'll introduce the plan himself.
Gov. Scott Walker kicked off his re-election bid with rallies around the state.
Gov. Tom Corbett approved a spate of child welfare laws earlier this week.
New York drops a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop and record behavior.
John Land, 93, has served for all but three years since 1949.
Abortion coverage details are very difficult to find on marketplace plans.
Officials put building permits and inspection process online using a civic cloud platform and innovative apps.
Oklahoma’s cities and counties are banned from setting their own minimum wage standards under a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Mary Fallin.
A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever limits on air toxics, including emissions of mercury, arsenic and acid gases, preserving a far-reaching rule the White House had touted as central to President Obama's environmental agenda.
Gov. Bobby Jindal has said he wants to withdraw Louisiana from a consortium of states developing the assessment associated with the Common Core academic standards if the Louisiana Legislature doesn't choose to do so on its own.
Several state attorneys general are pressing Google to make it harder for its users to find counterfeit prescription medicine and illegal drugs online, marking the second time in the past three years that the firm has drawn government scrutiny for its policies on rogue Internet pharmacies.
The Obama administration and state officials are in discussions on a deal that would free up an additional $100 million to soften the blow to Detroit pensioners, two people familiar with the talks told the Free Press late Tuesday.
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