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The highest minimum wage in the country, which is in Washington state. In 2016, California will raise its minimum wage to $10 under a bill approved last week.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough.
Unless Congress amends the law, marijuana businesses must be cash-only, creating a potentially dangerous situation in which they must keep thousands of dollars in cash on hand.
Combining data with new analytics techniques can help governments react nimbly and purposefully. It's hard work, but the potential payoff is worth it.
Laboring late into the night Thursday to finish their work for the year, state lawmakers acted to allow many more immigrants who are in the country illegally to obtain California driver's licenses, a measure Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign.
Oregon’s House leadership is talking about referring its own marijuana legalization measure to voters rather than waiting on someone else to write a ballot measure for 2014.
Denying reports that he has agreed to Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, aides to Gov. Tom Corbett said on Thursday he is reviewing options for Medicaid reform that he will outline next week.
A bill that would boost California's minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016 won approval by the state Legislature on Thursday and was sent to Gov. Jerry Brown, who said he would sign it.
Heavy rains caused widespread flash flooding in Colorado on Thursday, forcing hundreds of evacuations and leaving at least three people dead.
Eight years after Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast, Mississippi still hasn’t spent almost $1billion in federal money dedicated to recovery from the storm.
Statistics from a collaborative effort to reduce the use of antipsychotic drugs to control troublesome behavior by people with dementia in nursing homes shows that North Carolina led the nation in achieving reductions.
More than half of U.S. states are working to make sure veterans earn academic credit for military service.
With Congress back in session, tough issues like Syria and the deficit may put the bill known as the Marketplace Fairness Act on the back burner.
The Commonwealth Court today granted the state's request to force Montgomery County Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. The Legislature in 1996 explicitly banned same-sex marriage and refused to recognize such unions performed in other states.
The annual fee state and local government employers will have to pay for each person on their health coverage. AFL-CIO came out this week in opposition of Obamacare's transitional reinsurance fee, which would start being collected next year.
Joe Lhota, the Republican candidate for New York City mayor, who said he disagrees with the subway's decision to stop trains for two hours to rescue two kittens from the tracks.
District Mayor Vincent C. Gray vetoed legislation Thursday that would force the city’s largest retailers to pay a super-minimum wage to their workers, ending two months of uncertainty over the controversial bill’s fate and setting up a decisive override vote at the D.C. Council as early as Tuesday.
Ohio’s law enforcement database and its facial recognition software are open to more than just law enforcement, a concern of members of the advisory group reviewing the security of the systems.
Foreclosures in Orlando —- and the rest of Florida — have dropped dramatically since the state started expediting them under a new law that took effect July 1.
People with limited English skills will have an easier time in Michigan's courts after the Michigan Supreme Court issued an order Wednesday setting down a uniform rule for the availability of interpreters.
Gov. Jay Nixon scored two key victories as the Republican-controlled Legislature failed to override his vetoes of legislation that aimed to cut income taxes and nullify federal gun laws Wednesday.
New York City’s Democratic power brokers moved swiftly on Wednesday to prevent a combative sequel to the party’s primary for mayor, as union officials and party leaders rallied around the front-runner, Bill de Blasio, and urged the second-place finisher, William C. Thompson Jr., to end his quest for a runoff election.
City Treasurer Kathy Sheehan's resounding victory in Tuesday's Democratic mayoral primary overshadowed a broader story about the city's political present and future that played out further down the ballot.
In a rare effort to move legislation more quickly, Gov. Jerry Brown endorsed a bill that would raise California's minimum wage to $10 an hour by January 2016.
Obamacare sign-up starts less than a month but a few states are still answering a basic question: Are they in, or are they out of the law’s massive expansion of Medicaid?
The AFL-CIO is asking for changes to the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s landmark health-care overhaul, potentially opening fissures between the White House and one of its staunch political allies
The Reason Foundation -- one of the early champions of public-private partnerships -- outlines a plan for lifting the federal ban on interstate tolling to fund roads.
States that don't recognize same-sex marriage will face a few tax complications come 2014.
A report from the conservative Cato Institute, which also notes that evidence suggests many welfare recipients are reluctant to accept available job opportunities.
The number of states Texas is running ads in to tout its low taxes in an effort to get businesses and families to move there.
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