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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.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday vetoed legislation that would have made California the first state in the nation to allow legal immigrants who are not citizens to serve on juries.
Head Start doors will remain open through the end of October after philanthropists offered up to $10 million to the embattled institution.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal of a lower-court ruling that struck down Virginia’s anti-sodomy law, halting state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's long-standing legal efforts to preserve the statute.
Percent of state and local governments reporting hiring freezes last year (down from 41.6 percent the year before).
Stephen Klineberg, co-director of Rice’s Kinder Institute, on the problem with outsiders’ perception of Houston.
A new GAO report finds that states don't do a particularly effective job of monitoring kids on psychotropic meds.
Nearly every state has a prescription drug monitoring program, but most aren't being used by providers and pharmacists. New York's new system makes it easier to get the right data in the hands of the right people.
In Colorado, voters will consider a huge tax hike on legal marijuana; New Yorkers could expand gambling; and voters in Washington state are in the midst of a multimillion-dollar campaign over the labeling of genetically modified foods.
In a rare display of contrition coming to a Florida city near you, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration is acknowledging what civil rights groups and local elections officials had already been saying: Last year’s attempted purge of noncitizens from voter rolls was fundamentally flawed.
Calls for massive salvage logging, restoration and reforestation projects in the 257,000 acres of public wilderness scarred by the Rim fire have ignited controversy over how to proceed with the largest recovery effort undertaken in the Sierra Nevada.
Off-year municipal elections like those held this year in Los Angeles reduce overall voter turnout and appear to draw disproportionately small numbers of voters from minority groups, according to a study by the Greenlining Institute to be released Monday.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging an Arizona law that bans abortions based on a fetus’ race or sex, saying the civil-rights groups that filed the suit lacked legal standing.
A renewed and spirited effort is underway to recall Sen. Evie Hudak, a Democrat from Westminster, less than six months after an initial effort faltered.
As he announced last month, Gov. Jerry Brown today sued the U.S. Department of Labor over its ruling that California's new pension-reform law violates mass-transit workers' collective bargaining rights.
Despite previously supporting millions of dollars in tax breaks to keep corporations in Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn on Friday declared there will be no more special incentives for businesses until lawmakers send him a measure to overhaul the state's public employee retirement system.
A federal judge has overturned a state law that made it a crime to beg in public, declaring it violated free speech rights.
Consumers shopping in the new health insurance marketplaces find the pricing very complicated, while people in some areas of the country have to pay much more for the identical level of coverage than consumers elsewhere.
Despite the bleak employment outlook and negative rhetoric, recent surveys suggest enrollment for public administration programs and interest in government careers has increased.
Recent security problems involving contractors suggest that we need to rethink what government services should be performed by the private sector.
While the federal government has grabbed headlines for slow enrollment in its health insurance exchanges, many state-run marketplaces have quietly amassed thousands of completed applications for coverage.
The news came as the city is dipping into its own reserve funds to continue operating during the shutdown.
Many Republican politicians are finding the government shutdown tests their party loyalty.
Number of New Hampshire residents represented per state legislator. In California, there's one legislator for every 475,518 residents.
Minnesota Vikings Vice President of Public Affairs Lester Bagley, explaining why the professional football team will have to scale back plans for its new stadium in Minneapolis.
The state attorney general is leading one of the last state challenges against the law in federal court.
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