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Granting citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States could boost state and local government coffers by about $2 billion annually, said a liberal-leaning think tank study released on Wednesday.
New York Times writer Jon Pareles criticizing the rapper for using an app for his new album release that required fans to grant access to their phone's private data. Responding via Twitter, Jay-Z said his company must do better about protecting fans' privacy.
The portion of the 50 largest U.S. cities that had a Democratic mayor between 2005 and 2010.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has asked the top managers of 35 city agencies and departments to reapply for their jobs. Executives overseeing parks, libraries, airports and a host of other city-run services are being told they will have to demonstrate how their agencies will become more nimble, technologically savvy and responsive to Los Angeles residents or risk losing their jobs.
The California Supreme Court has ruled that digital mapping files known as geographic information systems must be released under the state's public records law. The decision could make it easier for media organizations, advocacy groups and others to obtain government GIS databases.
More than a year after Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the creation of the nation's first urban infrastructure bank it has not broken ground on a single venture. The slow start is being attributed to the lack of a working model, which means building policies for how the bank will operate from scratch.
Over 700 activists have been arrested at the North Carolina capitol building for protests against the conservative agenda being enacted by the Republican-controlled legislature. Some have charged the arrests are purely political, but the activists have vowed to continue protesting what they believe is an extreme conservative agenda.
The requirements in the Affordable Care Act pertain only to private insurers, Medicare and Medicaid expansion programs.
The director of the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division is retiring, at a time when the embattled division is taking on the task of regulating the state's new recreational marijuana industry.
An insurance company that backs more than $170 million in Detroit bonds said it opposes emergency manager Kevyn Orr’s attempt to restructure the city’s finances, a rejection appearing to place the city one step closer to the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S history.
The instinct that leads many people obsessively to pursue public approval and power through winning elections is closely linked to the instinct that leads many of these same people (and let’s face it, they are all men) to sexual excess and disaster.
Hundreds of witnesses from both sides of the abortion issue tried Monday to sway a Senate committee as a sweeping abortion bill remained on a fast track in the Legislature.
Gov. Pat McCrory said Monday he wants legislators to take a closer look at abortion regulations in North Carolina before acting further on legislation that would place higher standards on clinics and more responsibilities on physicians.
After a hastily called hearing, a federal judge Monday put a 10-day freeze on a new state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital-admitting privileges.
Their complaints focus on policies that put inmates in isolation indefinitely, some for decades, if they are suspected of having ties to prison gangs.
While the nation is aging, a few select areas are not only bucking the trend but may actually be getting younger.
Councilwoman Mary-Ann Baldwin in Raleigh, N.C., where the City Council will discuss the impacts of a column in the July issue of Governing magazine that singled out Raleigh and Oakland, Calif,. as cities where the councils are overdoing hands-on government.
The number of protesters arrested inside North Carolina's Republican-led legislature over the past 10 weeks -- some of whom critics say were unnecessarily taken to jail for their anti-conservative agenda.
Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday that he will not run for re-election next year, creating the first open race for Texas governor since 1990 and making Attorney General Greg Abbott the instant favorite to replace him.
The gap between the rhetoric and the reality of sequestration is an opportunity for Washington to follow in the footsteps of state and local governments by rethinking how services are delivered.
The number of arrests New York cops are allowed to make of women who go topless in the city. The NYPD recently reminded all of its officers that women who simply bare their breasts in public aren't committing any crime.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has cut taxes five times since coming into office and entered the 2013 legislative session with two specific goals (both of which he accomplished) -- to secure a $2,500 raise for the state’s teachers and repeal a sales tax on manufacturing equipment.
The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected Gov. Rick Snyder’s request for an advisory opinion on whether thestate’s 3-month-old right-to-work law is constitutional.
As more schools consider arming their employees, some districts are encountering a daunting economic hurdle: insurance carriers threatening to raise their premiums or revoke coverage entirely.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Friday requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges, and abortion clinics responded by immediately suing state officials over the measure.
The flip side of gay marriage is, of course, gay divorce. With the legal resumption last week of same-sex marriage in California, the state's family law attorneys are gearing up for what happens when some of those marriages fail.
California lawmakers are considering a bill requiring officials to make condoms available to state prison inmates as a way of limiting the spread of HIV and other diseases.
State officials across the South are aggressively moving ahead with new laws requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls after the Supreme Court decision striking down a portion of the Voting Rights Act.
It's looking increasingly unlikely that Gov. Perry will seek a fourth term in the Governor's Mansion.
Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York five years ago amid a prostitution scandal, is re-entering political life, with a run for the citywide office of comptroller and a wager that voters are ready to look past his previous misconduct.
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