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Without Congressional support, Obama will depend on new Race to the Top funding for early childhood education and a coalition of influential people to find ideas for further investment.
The state senator says her critics have picked on the "wrong Texas gal."
When the Jaguars played in London last year, the Florida city's mayor tagged along and used the trip to convince a top financial investment firm to open a new office in Jacksonville.
Obama's annual speech focused mostly on job growth and made and made only brief mentions of technology.
Gov. Scott Walker expected to sign bill that would prevent Wisconsin employers from asking for the log-in information and passwords for a prospective employee’s social media accounts.
After bills to raise the federal minimum wage stalled in Congress last year, Obama asked state and local officials to raise the minimum wage in their jurisdictions.
Gov. Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, political partners who have helped shape the state's agenda, sought to calm infuriated residents as they confronted a snowstorm that brought metro Atlanta to a standstill and laid bare flaws in the government's response.
This summer students will begin attending the SEED School of Miami, Florida's first residential public school.
President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.
Amount of money U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee wants to use to subsidize private and other school choices for poor kids in any state that opts into the program.
View state population estimates, including births, deaths and net migration totals.
Watch and read the governor's annual address.
Gov. Deval Patrick used his swan song State of the Commonwealth address to trump up his accomplishments -- and briefly address the glaring issues that have rocked his administration in recent months -- in a speech observers say smacked of his lame-duck status.
A Los Angeles jury Tuesday found state Sen. Roderick D. Wright, a fixture in area Democratic politics, guilty on eight felony counts of perjury and voter fraud.
A coalition of labor unions Tuesday filed the latest lawsuit seeking to torpedo the state's new pension law.
Twenty-nine states, plus the District of Columbia, have laws offering compensation for wrongful imprisonment.
A state appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that three-strikes inmates serving life in prison for being armed cannot ask for shorter sentences under a 2012 ballot initiative that softened the state's tough sentencing law.
House and Senate negotiators have reached an agreement on a new farm bill that includes a roughly $800 million reduction in annual food stamp funding, a 1 percent cut to the $80-billion-a-year program.
The president's State of the Union address included five references to state governments.
Sometimes getting health coverage means getting creative.
Some states lag far behind others in disclosing information online, according to a new report that reviews 246 subsidy programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The California drought will soon expose the geographic, political, personal and institutional divisions that complicate meaningful congressional action.
Kansas residents and scientists are noting an increase in earthquakes and wondering if fracking is the cause.
Northwestern football players are seeking to join a labor union.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee introduced a plan to subsidize school choice for poor kids in any state. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is narrowing his attention to students with disabilities or from military families.
Gov. Jan Brewer abolished the child protective services division in her state in the hopes of creating an independent agency that reports directly to her -- something only 10 other states have done.
Percent of New York State's workforce that's unionized, which is the highest rate of any state in the country.
Peggy Grover, the first female member of the Idaho Potato Commission, on what her appointment may do for women in the public sector.
The nation’s governors want to mobilize the Guard to take on cyberattacks.
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