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Number of states where Republicans control both the governor's office and the legislature.
Before a chamber filled with Democratic and Republicans lawmakers who only hours earlier were calling each other liars, Gov. Paul LePage delivered his third State of the State address Tuesday evening by highlighting his biggest policy achievements and then pledging additional reforms.
A recent report finds that states lost $20.7 billion to tax havens in 2011 and tallies how much they can save by closing the offshore tax loophole.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision not to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in protest of its ban on marchers who carry gay-pride signs.
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Gov. Tom Corbett on Tuesday presented a $29.4 billion state budget to a joint session of the General Assembly, saying it does not raise taxes, invests more than $240 million more in block grants for public schools and boosts funding for special education and early childhood education.
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The Legislature's Joint Judiciary Committee will be pushing for an interim study to find out why the prison population is growing while the crime rate has declined overall.
The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to eliminate criminal penalties for possession of marijuana but left smoking it in public a crime, keeping alive concerns about racial profiling in pot arrests in the District.
Missouri's attorney general has asked a federal court to strike down a California law regulating the living conditions of chickens, setting up a cross-country battle that pits new animal protections against the economic interests of Midwestern farmers.
President Barack Obama's healthcare law will reduce the American workforce by the equivalent of 2 million full-time workers in 2017, the Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday, prompting Republicans to paint the law as bad medicine for the U.S. economy.
Lawyers, accountants and other professionals racked up about $13.3 million in fees and an additional $348,000 in expenses from July to September in the early stages of the battle to restructure the bankrupt city of Detroit.
The sweeping farm bill that Congress sent to President Obama Tuesday has something for almost everyone, from the nation’s 47 million food stamp recipients to Southern peanut growers, Midwest corn farmers and the maple syrup industry in the Northeast.
A report highlighted in the aftermath of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's apparent heroin overdose notes that most states lack the recommended laws to curb overdose deaths.
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Valdez, no stranger to disaster, sees a recent avalanche as a wonder.
Governors' tax plans get pushback from their political allies.
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said the city of Detroit’s current proposal to spin off its water department would probably triple suburban water rates and that he can’t support the proposal in its current form.
An unusual Super Bowl ad floats Rick Snyder as the "comeback kid."
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday called on the Legislature to cut the state's highest income tax rate by 0.25 percent and recommended that lawmakers cut most state agencies' budgets by 5 percent to help pay for it.
Transportation needs are piling up as funding remains uncertain.
The state's citizens are scolding MNsure for waiting too long to fix call center glitches.
Florida Health Choices at last gets ready to launch.
Julio Rivera, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1001 in Denver, on the impact of Denver's efforts to privatize the city's bus service.
Number of Americans who have filed requests to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Department to fix errors in their health insurance coverage caused by HealthCare.gov glitches.
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The state Monday released its plan for spending more than $1.46 billion in long-awaited federal funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy amid mounting criticism over how well and how fairly the money is being distributed.
Bridget Anne Kelly, considered a crucial figure in unraveling the George Washington Bridge lane closures, is refusing to produce documents and information requested under subpoena by the state legislative committee investigating the controversy, The Star-Ledger has learned.
The Washington State Senate on Friday passed legislation to extend eligibility for State Need Grant assistance to college-bound young people live in the state but were brought here illegally by their parents.
Police led those arrested to a nearby room, cited each for trespassing and released them to break up the protest midmorning.
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