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Many states lag in using electronic health records.
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Enrollment numbers in 10 states are critical to the administration's efforts to enroll 6 million Americans in new health plans.
The National Governors Association announced three states that will participate in a program to improve data sharing to reduce recidivism and help prisoners successfully re-enter society.
Tennessee’s combined state and local sales tax rate, the highest in the United States.
Percent of U.S. flights that arrived on-time in January, the worst record since the Transportation Department started keeping records in the 1990s.
Morgan Fox, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, referring to legislation to allow the use of cannabis oil for medical use in states where medical marijuana is prohibited.
The latest, greatest idea for making a college education affordable sounds simple enough — students can attend school for free.
For $100,000, you can have a private dinner with Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the first lady, participate in a roundtable discussion with the governor and sit down every month with “policy experts.”
The fall campaign for Illinois governor between Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner will feature dueling brands of populism, campaign bankrolls in the tens of millions of dollars and plenty of scorched-earth attacks from groups with a vested interest in the high-stakes race.
Massachusetts is dropping the contractor that created the state’s dysfunctional online health insurance marketplace, ending a troubled partnership that has left thousands of consumers frustrated and many without coverage for months.
An Oklahoma court on Tuesday rescheduled a pair of executions set for this week and next, so state prison officials will have more time to find a supply of drugs for the lethal injections.
At a time when other states are curtailing or outlawing executions, Florida is bucking the trend.
Several states that ban the drug for medicinal purposes are considering allowing children suffering from epilepsy to take a marijuana extract. But the bills stop short of easing the sale of those medications.
Thanks to technology, the systems that run our cities are becoming more and more interconnected. But how we use those systems is always going to be guided by human intelligence.
California experiments with crowdsourced legislation.
After the GOP's ordeal with the Tampa convention, cash is king.
How are states tackling health disparities?
A video explainer on the mechanics and players that make the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market work.
Saving money isn't the only reason to continue reforming sentencing and helping former inmates stay out.
Number of child abuse and neglect cases opened in Arizona since 2009 that have been closed without investigation.
Akron, Ohio, Mayor Don Plusquellic, speaking at a meeting of mayors in Washington, D.C., this month to protest the president's proposed spending cuts to CDBGs.
Most Americans enjoy their public libraries and use them frequently, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.
Judicial Watch, a non-profit watchdog that promotes transparency, has sued the Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System after the trust refused to release a copy of a federal grand-jury subpoena that is part of a criminal investigation into the pension system.
Records released today by a legislative panel investigating the George Washington Bridge lane closings link Gov. Chris Christie’s chief political strategist to discussions about fallout from the scandal, and show that Christie’s campaign manager was more in the loop than previously known.
Just three years after his release from federal prison, former Gov. Edwin Edwards is throwing his hat into the open race for Louisiana's 6th Congressional District.
In a surprise vote, the New York State Senate on Monday rejected legislation that would have granted state tuition aid to undocumented immigrants, dealing a blow to immigrants’ advocates who had made it their top priority in the capital.
Illinois primary election day dawned Tuesday with voters getting to shape the Republican and Democratic fall tickets for contests ranging from governor and U.S. Senate down to state legislature and county board.
Seattle Monday became the first city in the country to limit drivers for Lyft, uberX and Sidecar, in what will eventually be an overhaul of all of the city’s ride-service rules.
Even though Obama proposes cuts, mayors are asking Congress not to touch Community Development Block Grant funding (which, unlike most federal funding, flows directly to cities).
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