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Recent changes to Arizona’s “resign-to-run” law mean current officeholders can now speak publicly about running for another office without having to use wiggle words, and Secretary of State Ken Bennett has taken advantage of the revisions that went into effect last week to say he will be a Republican candidate for governor next year.
Gov. Rick Scott intends to take his fight for random drug tests of tens of thousands of state employees all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a lawyer for the Republican governor told a federal judge Thursday.
Saying his actions will speak louder than his words, Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday vowed to step up oversight of public assistance programs, ordering the state health department to implement six strategies to combat fraud.
Vincent August Sicari chose his acting and stand-up comedy career over his part-time job as a municipal court judge in South Hackensack on Thursday after the state Supreme Court ruled that he could not continue to do both.
The legislation, which will cut red tape and ensure critical port projects are completed more quickly, got unanimous passage. Its next stop is the full House of Representatives.
Shelli Weisberg, spokeswoman for the ACLU in Michigan, where lawmakers passed a bill to keep people who refused to take employee drug tests or tested positive from getting unemployment benefits.
The number of people who have gotten citations this year for having marijuana on federal land in Washington and Colorado, where recreational use of the drug is legal. The misdemeanor is punishable by up to 6 months in jail and a $5,000 fine.
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A federal appeals court affirmed California's right to impose low carbon fuel standards aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, rejecting an industry argument that the regulations penalized out-of-state fuel producers.
Under fire for refusing to issue driver's licenses to young people permitted to stay in the U.S. under President Obama's deferred deportation program, Arizona has decided that anyone whose deportation has been deferred, including abused women and children, would be ineligible.
State officials have no plans to license pot gardens or stores on federal land, but beyond that, they say, it’s not clear what they can do to discourage backpackers or campers from bringing a few joints into Rocky Mountain or Mount Rainier national parks.
New Jersey’s use of tax breaks and grants to lure businesses to the state — already ramped up under Gov. Chris Christie — may now expand even more sharply.
Property losses from deadly flooding in Colorado will total nearly $2 billion, about half from housing and half from the commercial and government sectors, catastrophe modeling firm Eqecat said on Wednesday in the first comprehensive estimate of the disaster's economic toll.
In a letter to the state's health agency on Monday, the governor laid out his plan to request a federal waiver to reform Medicaid as Texas sees fit — without expanding eligibility.
The session will deal with more money for schools and more cuts to the public employees retirement system, items that lawmakers couldn’t agree to when the regular session ended in July.
The community service bill, which passed the state Senate on a 27-9 vote would require people receiving food stamps or other welfare benefits to perform community service in order to get the money.
The on-set sparring capped off several days of back-and-forth between the two governors — both considered possible 2016 presidential contenders — over the virtues of their respective states and their differing political philosophies.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who wants the U.S. Department of Justice to drop its lawsuit against the state's program that allows low-income students to transfer from poor-performing public schools to private schools. The feds are seeking to block the program in districts with desegregation orders.
The rate of American households who used food stamps last year, which is a slight increase from 2011 when 13 percent received SNAP benefits.
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The legislation to allow states and localities to collect online sales taxes has been stuck in the U.S. House, but the issue may gain momentum back.
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will open its doors and records so a newly created state strike force can help chisel away at a daunting backlog of claims that is costing California veterans millions of dollars in lost benefits every year.
A Dane County judge ruled Tuesday the state cannot enforce key provisions of a law limiting collective bargaining against local government unions.
Oklahoma now joins Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana as the only states that have publicly said they will limit how and where such couples can register for benefits, despite a recent Pentagon directive that gay couples be treated equally.
Gov. Christie's plan to redirect $15 million in federal Sandy aid to another tragedy - the fire last week on the Seaside boardwalk - is vague on eligibility requirements, and is drawing criticism from both the left and the right.
The federal appeals court in Philadelphia handed down a 2-1 ruling today that New Jersey could not implement sports betting because the state’s new law conflicts with a federal statute that bans it in all but four states: Nevada, Delaware, Montana and Oregon.
The D.C. Council failed Tuesday to overturn a mayoral veto of a hotly contested measure requiring the city’s largest retailers to pay their workers no less than 50 percent more than the current minimum wage.
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