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Even before the first chunk of earth is turned for the new Vikings’ stadium, project planners are finding out that $975 million doesn’t go nearly as far as they had hoped.
The Tax Foundation's ranking of states based on how business-friendly they are has generated a lot of attention, but a better rating doesn't necessarily mean a state has a stronger economy.
Innovation is an important part of leadership, but so is failure.
A big salary hike for Boston police might turn out to be the defining issue of the city's hotly contested mayoral campaign. Beyond that, it illustrates a deeper problem.
Thanks to the federal government shutdown, North Carolina has run out of funds to allow residents to sign up for the program that provides food vouchers and nutrition information to women and children.
The only police department with more Facebook "likes" than Brimfield, Ohio's is New York City's. We interviewed Brimfield's police chief to see how his department got 88,000 people from around the world to care about his community.
Members of Congress are still getting paid despite the federal government shutdown. Given the way state-level politics works, it is no surprise.
On Tuesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation to significantly limit workers' compensation claims by professional athletes.
Homeless veterans are notoriously difficult to count. Michigan found a way to test the accuracy of its numbers and deepen the state’s understanding of veteran homelessness today.
Arizona plan to tighten voter registration to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting would affect only several thousand people.
California Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed more than a dozen bills aimed at improving access to water in the state, where drought is common and tension is high over the competing needs of residents, agriculture and the environment.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday to give Californians a better peek into the wallets of their elected officials and to provide the state's ethics watchdog agency with more tools to hold politicians accountable for misconduct.
A Senate panel took the first step toward amending the Stand Your Ground self-defense law on Tuesday, approving a bill that would revamp neighborhood watch programs.
Gov. Chris Christie and Democratic challenger Barbara Buono clashed sharply tonight on everything from unemployment to gay marriage to Hurricane Sandy in a contentious first televised debate.
To settle a free speech lawsuit, Gov. Scott Walker's administration agreed Tuesday to pay more than $88,000 in attorneys fees and drop its hard-and-fast requirement that larger groups protesting in the Capitol receive a permit.
Mayor Vincent C. Gray warned Tuesday that a drawn-out federal shutdown could lead to crisis in the city — a stark change in tone from his portrayal last week of a District government going about its business amid congressional dysfunction.
In an aggressive challenge to President Barack Obama’s health-care law, 15 Indiana school districts — backed by the state’s attorney general — say they shouldn’t have to pay expensive penalties if they fail to provide health benefits to employees who work a minimum of 30 hours a week.
A group criticized for running purportedly anti-Islamic ads around the country has sued King County over its refusal to allow it to run a poster of wanted terrorists on the sides of Metro buses — an ad almost identical to ones pulled down earlier this summer for being insensitive to area Muslims.
All employees at a disability services office in Winthrop and four more in the Maine Department of Health and Human Services were laid off Monday as a result of the federal government shutdown, Gov. Paul LePage announced Monday evening.
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Protesters say they'll cause congestion on Washington's Beltway starting Friday, but state transportation leaders aren't saying much about how they'll respond.
Because there’s no single blueprint for fiscal success and very little actually can be replicated by another city or town.
Total annual compensation provided to every member of the New Hampshire state legislature.
Arizona, long at odds with Washington over immigration policy, plans to require voters to show proof of citizenship to vote in state polls, even after it lost a high court battle to demand such documentation for federal elections.
Churches, unions and social service organizations now can set up computer stations to help the uninsured sign up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act without fear of being fined by the state of Tennessee.
Democrat Terry McAuliffe has opened up a significant lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia governor’s race amid broad public disapproval of the federal government shutdown, according to a POLITICO poll of the 2013 gubernatorial election.
Mary Burke, a former Trek Bicycle Corp. executive and state Commerce secretary, ended months of speculation Monday by announcing in a web video that she is running for the Democratic nomination to challenge Gov. Scott Walker.
Pot farms of up to 10,000 square feet will be allowed in most Seattle industrial areas under zoning approved Monday by the City Council.
Days after her administration said thousands of Arizona’s poorest families would not get welfare checks because of the federal shutdown, Gov. Jan Brewer late Monday ordered the state’s safety-net agency to make this month’s payments.
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