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This week's roundup of money (and other) news that governments can use touches on retirement security, ridiculously cold weather, superdowngrades and more.
The City of Detroit is proposing to pay the city’s pension funds slightly more than bankers, bondholders and other creditors in its plan to reduce its $18 billion in debt and long-term liabilities, the Free Press has learned.
In the face of growing opposition to the Common Core State Standards — a set of K-12 educational guidelines adopted by most of the country — officials in a handful of states are worried that the brand is already tainted. They’re keeping the standards but slapping on fresh names they hope will have greater public appeal.
An untold number of people who applied for Connector plans without financial assistance have not gotten coverage, because their payments were lost or somehow never linked to their accounts.
The sun could power more of Iowa’s energy needs, with solar potential that exceeds sunny states like Florida, Georgia and Utah, a new report shows.
The federal government said Thursday it has blocked millions in funding to Idaho's education broadband system because a lawsuit over the project's $60 million contract raised questions about who should get the cash.
Minimum wage is an important discussion, but it should happen at the state level, Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia, said this week.
Fifteen states experienced significant population increases last year. New Census estimates on migration trends and birth rates provide a glimpse into what's driving each state's growth. View data for your state.
Mitch Landrieu faces tough re-election race despite the city's strides.
Dirty, old, and inconvenient, New York's LaGuardia Airport faces a tough slog.
A Pennsylvania McDonald's employee is accused of selling heroin in Happy Meal boxes.
Less than a year after the Boston Marathon bombing, in which social media and crowdsourcing proved instrumental to finding the suspects, this year’s Super Bowl security technology pools resources in a way that that uses data to paint the most comprehensive picture yet.
In an effort to improve health care, more states are requiring private insurers to provide information about their claims.
Legislators propose overturning a law requiring counties to conduct random drug tests of welfare recipients who have been convicted of a drug felony in the past 10 years.
States risk losing out on federal work-share dollars if they don't act by the end of the year.
View and compare funded ratios for 246 state pension systems.
GOP candidates are scarce in 2014 statewide races.
Maryland Delegate James E. Malone Jr., objecting to a series of bicycle bills, one of which would expand the distance drivers are required to keep from bikers while passing them to four feet.
Number of Atlanta-area children stranded in school overnight on Tuesday due to snow and ice that gridlocked the region.
Watch and read the governor's annual address.
Gov. Gary Herbert called for steps to clear Utah’s air, using his State of the State address to push for quicker adoption of clean-burning gasoline, clamping down on the use of wood-burning stoves and retrofitting aging, dirty school buses.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn today used his election-year "State of the State" speech to make the case that, far from being the flailing chief executive portrayed in brutal poll numbers, he has in fact brought Illinois back from the brink of corruption and fiscal catastrophe.
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest sued the state health commissioner Wednesday over regulations that would further define what constitutes a "medically necessary" abortion for purposes of receiving Medicaid funding.
The Maryland Senate gave final approval Wednesday to a plan for the state to offer temporary, retroactive health insurance to residents unable to sign up through the state’s troubled online marketplace.
Supply problems in several states where propane is a crucial heating source have prompted governors and other officials to take action against vendors, investigate claims of price gouging and increase aid to low-income customers.
The U.S. attorney general made waves last week when he said the Obama administration plans to give banks the go-ahead to make loans or open accounts for marijuana dispensaries in states where they’re legal without running afoul of federal laws, which still consider cannabis an illegal substance.
Analysts see a better year ahead, but say there are factors that could cause a 2013 repeat.
Watch and read the governor's annual address.
The president signed an executive order Wednesday to offer retirement accounts to workers who don’t have access to them. The program will be watched closely by states contemplating similar solutions.
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