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Gov. Scott Walker's tax cut plan passes in the Senate and is likely to become law.
One state senator is really concerned that some legislators might live outside of their districts.
The city bans e-cigarettes in parks, restaurants and workplaces.
Facing a backlog of hundreds of health and safety complaints, it appears county officials told inspectors to cut short nursing home probes.
President Barack Obama signaled Tuesday he still wants the federal government to sell its ownership stake in the nation’s largest federal utility, the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Arkansas' first-in-the-nation plan that uses Medicaid funds to buy private insurance for the poor survived an effort to defund it Tuesday, as lawmakers gave final approval to continue a program that has extended health coverage to nearly 94,000 people.
Chicago’s financial standing took a hit Tuesday when a major bond rating agency once again downgraded the city’s credit worthiness because of a huge government worker pension shortfall and the overall amount of money it owes.
Possessing marijuana and smoking it in the privacy of one’s home would no longer be criminal offenses in the nation’s capital under a bill passed Tuesday by the D.C. Council, putting the District at the forefront of a simmering national debate over decriminalization.
As the Republican primary results poured in Tuesday evening, a general rule of thumb emerged in races featuring Tea Party insurgents challenging Republican incumbents: Money matters.
A scramble to fill statewide offices in one of the biggest turnovers in Texas government history began with Tuesday's primary, but several of the key contests will require runoffs to decide a final winner.
Steve Beshear said he will fight a judgement that requires the state to honor out-of-state same-sex marriages, though he'll have to find someone other than his attorney general to represent the state.
Scandals cost the state's Democrats supermajority control of the California Senate.
The former basketball star teams up with Robert Hays to do an ad based on the 1980 movie Airplane!
Gov. Phil Bryant reiterated his support of a merit-based pay increase for teachers Wednesday during his annual State of the State speech.
Gov. John Kasich set the stage for an intense legislative schedule in coming months with a policy-laden State of the State address that was anchored by more than a half dozen proposals tied to education and a 6.3 percent state income-tax cut.
Republicans hold the lead in governorships, but Democrats may be making slight gains in this year's gubernatorial races.
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We examine the tossup gubernatorial races in the six states where votes will likely matter the most.
Andrea Pook, spokeswoman for East Bay Municipal Utility District, on the utility company's efforts to reduce consumption by allowing customers to compare their energy use to that of their neighbors.
How governments respond to the widening rift between rural and urban America can either help bridge the gap or drive the country down an even more divergent path.
Here’s a rundown of the proposals that would most affect states and localities and how stakeholders reacted to the president's budget.
States lag in educating students about personal finance. Only four states even require that high school students take a course in it to graduate.
Detroit reaches a deal in a debt swaps settlement with banks, which could save taxpayers millions.
When federal officials closed national parks during last year’s government shutdown, it meant nearly 8 million fewer visits to the parks and cost local communities more than $400 million in economic activity, the National Park Service said Monday.
In a bid to alter the funding mechanism of Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal for free tuition at community colleges, a top official representing Tennessee's private colleges met with governor's office aides on Monday to push a counter plan they say would protect the state's four-year universities.
Cities that have worked for years to attract young professionals who might have once moved to the suburbs are now experimenting with ways to protect a group long deemed expendable — working- and lower-middle class homeowners threatened by gentrification.
South Carolina reached a tentative agreement to not allow police to hold people while checking to see if they are living in the country illegally, immigration rights groups announced Monday.
The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand two appeals court decisions blocking local ordinances that sought to bar landlords from renting housing to illegal immigrants and to prevent employers from hiring workers who lack proper immigration authorization.
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