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Gov. John Kitzhaber announced a major managerial house-cleaning Thursday in response to the state's ongoing health insurance exchange fiasco.
In what is likely its final session of the year, the state Assembly voted late Thursday to curb early voting and decided early Friday to limit the incidents when police take DNA from criminal suspects.
Pennsylvania's fee on Marcellus Shale natural-gas wells is the lowest among 11 states examined in a study released Thursday by the Independent Fiscal Office, the state legislature's nonpartisan budget agency.
People who light up at a park or beach in New Jersey could see their money go up in smoke under a bill quickly advancing through the state Legislature.
A medical marijuana bill unanimously passed both the Alabama House and Senate on Thursday and is headed to the desk of Gov. Robert Bentley, who has said he will sign it into law.
More than 8,000 toddlers in the U.S. were suspended from preschool at least once during the 2011 school year, new data from the U.S. Department of Education show — a small but significant number, experts say, because preschool students shouldn’t be sent home from school at all.
More than 225 years after the first one, states are considering whether to call a second as a way to rein in the feds. But no one really knows what a convention can and can’t do and how it would work.
With kids on the decline in urban areas, cities can make themselves more attractive to young families by building more playgrounds.
Politicians sometimes promise to eliminate problems like smoking or traffic deaths, but what does that mean for policy?
Nathan Deal endorses plan aimed at keeping more rural hospitals open by having them deliver fewer services.
A bill to expand government-funded health coverage was narrowly defeated.
Gov. Susana Martinez's wants to stop allowing union dues to be withdrawn automatically from state employee paychecks.
Carson is the first city in California to ban all oil drilling, even temporarily, officials say.
Officials in Maryland and Pennsylvania are looking to technology to reduce contraband in prisons and keep inmates from illegally receiving unemployment checks.
Percent of household electricity use in California that comes from the indoor growth of marijuana.
Harvard School of Public Health Professor John McDonough, while discussing a new commission in Massachusetts (which is the only of its kind in the nation) designed to look at the impact of increasingly popular hospital mergers.
The cumulative impact of voting-rule changes on the outcome of several key state races in November looks to be hit or miss.
People found to have used justifiable force in a “stand your ground” hearing could apply to have all court records related to their case expunged and made unavailable to the general public, according to an amendment filed by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach.
Efforts to roll back Common Core have begun to stall in the week since opponents scored a surprise victory in the state House of Representatives.
An ambitious bipartisan proposal to raise the minimum age requirement for buying cigarettes in Colorado was rejected in a House committee Wednesday amid concerns the bill infringed on the rights of young adults.
Massachusetts regulators issued a strongly worded warning Tuesday about the risks of the virtual currency known as bitcoin after the opening of the second ATM-like kiosk in the Boston area that make it easier for people to buy it.
Almost all of the 12 states splitting about $5 billion in federal economic stimulus money to re-imagine education policy have one thing in common: They need more time to get the job done.
A U.S. District Court judge ruled Wednesday that Arizona and Kansas can require anyone registering to vote to prove their citizenship and the federal Election Assistance Commission cannot block them.
Abundant water in California's Imperial Valley belies the drought.
New data suggests Republican-leaning states are home to the highest concentrations of employees on government payrolls. View data for every state.
The 32-year-old secretary of state wants to make Missouri’s ethics laws, which are currently among the nation’s weakest, some of the strongest.
Recognizing that the majority of calls they get are now people seeking medical help, some fire departments are diving deeper into a medical role.
Gray Davis was recalled as governor of California -- and recalled again by a minor league baseball team.
More job openings, pay raises and better benefits all appear to be on state and local government managers' minds.
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