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The hourly rate, which the city has agreed to pay, for the court-appointed attorney put in charge of monitoring Detroit's legal bills in its Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
Actress Susan Sarandon in defense of her decision to endorse Bill de Blasio in the New York City mayor's race instead of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who would be the city's first female mayor.
Cellular-free mobile phone service and Wi-Fi boosters are part of the next generation of technologies that could make communication during disasters easier.
Map shows Michigan municipalities under emergency managers and consent agreements.
Take the 203 seats in the House of Representatives and add the 50 in the Senate, and Pennsylvania has one of the largest legislatures in the country.
Drivers tooling through the Illinois countryside will be able to nudge the gas pedal a little harder next year after Gov. Pat Quinn overcame safety concerns and approved legislation Monday that will raise the speed limit on rural interstates to 70 mph.
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell announced Monday that the state finished its fiscal year in June with a significant budget surplus, a ray of good news overshadowed by an intensifying federal investigation into gifts and money provided to the governor and his family by a wealthy political supporter.
The federal government removed restrictions on the purchase of emergency contraceptives in June. The Oklahoma Legislature subsequently passed a law that required purchasers to show identification and, if age 17 or under, to have a prescription.
Governor Christie signed a law banning the use of a practice known as gay conversion therapy on minors Monday, using the opportunity to once again detail his position on homosexuality and draw a distinction between himself and conservative Republicans.
Dozens of creditors, unions and retiree groups objected to Detroit’s eligibility to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, setting up a fierce legal battle today that will determine whether the city’s bankruptcy case can proceed.
A veteran state environmental regulator told staffers in an email Monday that Republican Gov. John Kasich was forcing his resignation after pressure from the coal industry.
Gov. Rick Snyder announced Monday that the financial emergency in Pontiac was over and that the city no longer needed to be run by an emergency manager.
California prison officials have obtained a federal court order to allow force-feeding and other steps to keep prison hunger strikers alive even if they declared they do not want such medical intervention.
Arizona state Sen. Chester Crandell, the author of a bill that would let voters decide on a case-by-case basis if the state should withhold staffing or other resources needed to carry out certain federal policies.
The portion of one wait staff worker's pay that it takes to rent an average two-bedroom apartment in Honolulu, according to a recent report that details the lack of affordable housing for employees in the travel and tourism industry.
In part to head off an avalanche of expected appeals, at least 10 states have changed laws to comply with the ruling.
Officials in Washington and across the country are pushing rapid rehousing as the most promising way to help homeless families move out of shelters and motels and become self-sufficient.
The high-tech tablet — which hangs on a hook, measures 18 by 20 inches and comes in pink, blue and green — can be used as a personal shield for professors under attack, according to the company that makes it, and as a portable writing pad in quieter times.
If voters approve the measure, it would allow lawmakers, or the voters directly, to decide on a case-by-case basis if the state should withhold staffing or other resources needed to carry out a federal policy.
Pennsylvania voters will not be required to produce identification to cast ballots in November.
After months of pressure from both sides of the gun control debate, Gov. Chris Christie today refused to sign three controversial gun control measures sitting on his desk — including a version of a weapon ban that he had called for.
Gov. Chris Christie agreed today to make it easier for severely ill children to participate in the medical marijuana program, but said he would not go along with one provision of the measure and sent it back to the state Legislature.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge delivered a major rebuke to the California bullet train project Friday, ruling that the state failed to comply with requirements on funding and environmental reviews imposed by voters.
In 2011, state governments collected more than $50 billion in taxes and proceeds from vice: gambling, smoking and alcohol consumption.
These customer-service systems are evolving into far more than a way to get a pothole filled or graffiti cleaned up.
Amount it will cost to tear down Seattle's so-called “ramps to nowhere.”
Steve Lavin, a Montana state representative from Kalispell, on a new state law passed with bipartisan support and signed by Gov. Steve Bullock that allows anyone who comes across dead deer, elk, moose and antelope -- or strike them with their vehicles -- to take them home for dinner.
he Common Core, a set of standards for kindergarten through high school that has been ardently supported by the Obama administration and many business leaders and state legislatures, is facing growing opposition from both the right and the left even before it has been properly introduced into classrooms. Indiana has already put a brake on them. The Michigan House of Representatives is holding hearings on whether to suspend them. And citing the cost of new tests requiring more writing and a significant online component, Georgia and Oklahoma have withdrawn from a consortium developing exams based on the standards. New York state, an early adopter of the new standards, released results from reading and math exams showing that less than a third of students passed.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says the union-backed contract proposal would limit Department of Water and Power reforms. With the City Council and others favoring the agreement, he may be on his own.
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