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Percent of Washington, D.C., residents who support the legalization of marijuana -- one of the highest rates in the nation.
Sixty children have been removed from their homes under the direction of Gov. Jan Brewer’s child-welfare team charged with examining thousands of uninvestigated reports of neglect and abuse. Yet the team’s leader said he doesn’t know the nature of the allegations that required the children to be separated from their parents.
Saying some neighborhoods have more pot shops than banks, Colorado Democrats on Wednesday rejected a proposal to ban the use of public assistance cards to obtain cash at marijuana-shop ATMs.
The worst kept secret in Iowa politics is out: Terry Branstad is running for re-election.
Three months after its debut, Florida’s $63 million unemployment benefits website is showing signs of improvement but falls far short of adequately serving claimants who depend on it, state officials testified Wednesday before a Senate panel.
Governor Chafee proposed a new $8.5-billion budget Wednesday that would set the stage for cutting the state’s 9-percent corporate tax rate to 6 percent, freeze state college tuitions and pump hundreds of millions of dollars into new, legacy-building public works projects, including the repair or replacement of 834 bridges.
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With a landmark court case on school finance looming, Gov. Sam Brownback delivered a stern message to the courts about who bankrolls education in Kansas.
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Percent of American adults vaccinated last flu season. (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends everyone older than 6 months get a flu shot every year.)
President Barack Obama (reportedly) to the nation's governors, according to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.
This year the states will air their differences at the Supreme Court.
Three governors whose states have done a poor job of shielding kids from sometimes-fatal abuse and neglect are taking important steps.
Do states and localities have a revenue interest in virtual currencies?
Gov. Dave Heineman calls for tax relief of up to $500 million over next 3 years
Nathan Deal Proposes a $547 million increase in state education spending, while also promising to keep Georgia's tax burden low.
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Under Obamacare now, undocumented immigrants and children who are legally present under Obama’s Deferred Action program are ineligible for Medicare, non-emergency Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
During this year's State of the States address, governors continued their push for more control over their economic futures.
The vaccination rate for the flu is disappointing.
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Read and watch the governor's annual address.
The Texas Workforce Commission said it will not be able to start the drug testing program on the state’s timetable because the United States Labor Department has not set the required parameters.
Gov. Brown and lawyers for inmates miss a court deadline to file negotiated proposals on prison crowding, so jurists say they will make their decision within a month.
After 10 months and even a lawsuit demanding he move faster, Gov. Rick Scott has finally announced his new lieutenant governor. Scott named Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera, 40, to the post Tuesday morning.
A Tulsa-based federal judge on Tuesday ruled that an Oklahoma constitutional amendment that precludes same-sex couples from receiving state marriage licenses violates the U.S. Constitution.
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are increasingly borrowing border-patrol drones for domestic surveillance operations, newly released records show, a harbinger of what is expected to become the commonplace use of unmanned aircraft by police.
Gov. Jay Inslee's proposals to boost teacher pay and increase the state minimum wage ran into a wall of Republican opposition after his State of the State address Tuesday.
Gov. Mike Pence pushed lawmakers Tuesday night to settle the divisive debate over banning gay marriage in the state's constitution this year and made it clear he wants Indiana's school standards to be written "by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers."
Five days after he announced the firing of a top aide implicated in a scandal that continues to threaten his administration, Gov. Christie tried to move beyond the turmoil Tuesday in his State of the State address.
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