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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).
Idaho's unique substitute law lets pretty much anyone take over if needed.
Connecticut state lawmakers are considering whether to expand restrictions on pesticide use to include more public places like parks, playgrounds and municipal greens.
If Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott wins, his wife will become the first Latina to be the first lady of Texas.
The Drug Enforcement Administration may approve research to study whether pot can help veterans cope with post-traumatic stress.
Thousands of young California immigrants are eligible for coverage -- though often they don’t know it.
Many state and local governments are still using the soon-to-be obsolete operating system, and the upgrade transition is proving very slow and costly.
Percent of children living in New Mexico and Washington, D.C., whose households did not have a consistent food supply in 2011. These were the highest such rates.
Dr. Nathaniel Stewart of Pacific Avenue Animal Hospital in Tacoma, Wash. Veterinarians have seen an increase in the number of animals with THC problems since the state legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2012.
School superintendents across the state are employing a rare, unified message that has intensified the pressure on lawmakers to significantly bolster education funding this legislative session.
Tea party activists have been waging war for months against the Common Core academic standards. Now, in a coordinated show of muscle, Big Business is fighting back — and notching wins.
All were asked to sign confidentiality agreements that would have kept the settlements out of public view, according to documents obtained by The Des Moines Register and interviews with the ex-state workers.
More than two dozen attorneys general sent letters on Sunday to five of the country’s largest retailers, encouraging them to stop selling tobacco products in stores that also have pharmacies, which would follow the example CVS Caremark set with its announcement earlier this year that it would stop selling such products in its drugstores.
Republican leaders are threatening to take congressional action to stop state governors from flouting the food stamp cuts contained in the 2014 farm bill.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office ran an undercover sting operation over three years that captured leading Philadelphia Democrats, including four members of the city's state House delegation, on tape accepting money, The Inquirer has learned. Yet no one was charged with a crime.
There are many lessons for public leaders in how a New York City park was brought back from chaos.
As consolidations have become increasingly more common across the country, Massachusetts has the nation's only independent state agency focused on evaluating their effects.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The number of school districts in financial distress has doubled since 2012
Recovering from hip surgery, Mark Dayton meets with 11 activists at the Governor's Mansion.
Former Utility Commissioner John Hanger says he has "no path to victory."
Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade organizer Philip J. Wuschke Jr., on why the Allied War Veterans Council, which runs the parade, was opposed to allowing a gay veteran’s group to participate openly in the event.
Amount raised by the Dallas Safari Club in January for the protection of black rhinos through the selling of permits to hunt black rhinos.
There's a growing trend of teaching young people (especially those from demographic groups that historically haven’t embraced biking) how to repair and ride bikes.
Indiana lawmakers have ended their 2014 session, sending business tax cuts, a preschool program, new roads funding and a series of other measures to Gov. Mike Pence for consideration.
It took three years and tortured negotiations that lasted until the final day of the Legislative session.
Even as he came under escalating attacks from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the Legislature for his stance toward charter schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday stepped closer to securing state financing to expand prekindergarten in New York City.
The delegation from the National Cannabis Industry Association made a point of dressing well for its day on Capitol Hill, sporting mostly dark suits, lots of ties and plenty of the group’s signature lapel pins, which feature a sun rising over vibrant fields of marijuana.
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