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The cost to taxpayers for flaws in Maryland’s online health insurance exchange, according to a report by state budget officials.
New Jersey Assemblyman John Wisniewski, leader of the legislative committee investigating the George Washington Bridge lane closings, on David Wildstein, a top official at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Bridget Anne Kelly, former deputy chief of staff in Gov. Chris Christie’s office, joking about their ability to cause transportation problems via text message.
After months of anticipation, Gov. Gary Herbert released a proposal Thursday to use federal money to help 111,000 low-income Utahns buy private health coverage, saying the state has a "moral obligation" to its citizens.
California's attorney general on Thursday waded into a court fight over the state's strict gun laws, asking an appeals court to reverse itself and restore the leeway local governments had to decide who can carry a concealed firearm.
U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II in Louisville issued a final order Thursday requiring Kentucky to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other states and countries. Heyburn struck down parts of a 1998 state law and a 2004 state constitutional amendment defining marriage in Kentucky as between one man and one woman, and prohibiting the state from recognizing same-sex marriages from elsewhere.
South Carolina already has the type of religious-freedom law that Arizona lawmakers passed that critics say could allow businesses to discriminate against gays.
Some 9 million poor women and young children who receive federal food assistance under the U.S. government's so-called WIC program will have greater access to fruits, vegetables and whole grains under an overhaul of the program unveiled on Friday.
Jerry Brown finally made it official Thursday: He's running for an unprecedented fourth and final term as governor.
Some states are seeking to send their sickest inmates to private facilities, allowing them to shift significant costs to the federal government. But those ideas can come with political costs.
Eight states make ex-lawmakers wait two years before they can become lobbyists, and New Mexico may join them.
Some cities are using government-issued prepaid cards to fight poverty and increase public safety. New Haven, Conn., is using them to stimulate the local economy. Should other cities do the same?
New technology makes it possible to turn ordinary streetlamps into data-gathering networks. But is it too much of a good thing?
Obama introduces a $302 billion transportation Infrastructure Investment and outlined how the White House plans to fill the gap in the Highway Trust.
Percent of young people in homeless shelters who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
Mayor Arthur Smith of Dufur, Ore., describing his community's reaction to his decision to cite a family for noise and nuisance violations after neighbors complained about a 5-year-old girl's pet rooster.
Politicians took to Twitter to respond to the court's decision to strike down Texas' ban on same-sex marriage.
With the ways for funding transportation infrastructure changing, what options do Congress and the states have left?
An attempt to raise the minimum wage in Tennessee by $1 an hour for workers who have not been offered health insurance was turned back Wednesday.
Now, amid growing national momentum for government-paid preschool for all, Tim Burgess is proposing an ambitious plan to make high-quality preschool free for Seattle families earning up to twice the federal poverty level, or about $47,000 for a family of four.
A West Coast car-sharing service is facing off against Minneapolis City Hall, and regulators say they are prepared to ticket and impound cars they encounter after the service launches Thursday.
Alaska voters will decide this summer whether America's Last Frontier will become the third U.S. state to legalize the sale and recreational use of marijuana for adults under a proposal that officially qualified on Wednesday for a statewide ballot.
Texas became the biggest conservative state to have its gay marriage ban declared unconstitutional by a federal judge Wednesday, though he held his ruling in abeyance so higher-ranking jurists, possibly even the U.S. Supreme Court, can weigh in.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer silenced the vitriolic outcry over Senate Bill 1062 with a veto early Wednesday evening, eliciting relief from opponents who said it would lead to discrimination and hurt the state’s economy and reputation, and disappointment from supporters who maintained the bill’s intent had been distorted.
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Number of pre-k openings New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he can create for children. He proposes to pay for the expansion with a higher income tax.
During the last school year, 307 students were kicked out of charter schools, which have a total enrollment of about 50,000. In regular public school schools, there were 182 kids expelled out of a student body of more than 353,000.
After 5 years, Mayor Michael Nutter gets a union contract.
As highway money runs dry, Congress considers lifting the ban on tolls on tolling existing interstates.
The wireless industry is bristling over the Commission’s proposed rulemaking on wireless 911 location results.
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