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The increase in casino tax revenue in Kansas from 2011 to 2012. New casinos in the state have successfully siphoned revenues from Colorado, Indiana and Missouri.
Brunswick County, N.C., introduced “Vote & Vax” last election season in an effort to fight the flu by reaching at-risk residents at the polls.
The package of bills signed by Gov. Rick Snyder create a commission to set minimum standards for attorneys who provide legal work for indigent defendants and make available more state funds to fill budget gaps at the county level.
The University of California system has adopted a number of measures to work around a statewide ban on using affirmative action in recruiting and admissions that passed in 1996. Despite those efforts, enrollment numbers for blacks and Latinos have not recovered to pre-1996 levels.
After a bloody 2012 with more than 500 slayings, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy delivered some encouraging news about the homicide number: It's at its lowest total in nearly half a century. The city reported 184 homicides for the first half of 2013.
The Colorado Springs resident is a former prosecutor who was first elected to the legislature in 2008.
A scheduled cut in payments for Tennesseans collecting unemployment benefits has been delayed indefinitely, after state officials were warned the action could trigger a loss of federal funding for other benefits.
Thousands of small businesses in North Carolina must now use an Internet-based system to verify that new hires are eligible to work in the United States.
As a result, almost everyone agrees that the plan that sits on the governor’s desk is too broad in what it allows and will require a legislative fix in the next few months.
With the help of state lawmakers, Gov. Corbett slapped together a $140 million plan to help fund the distressed school district, but the deal did not include Mayor Nutter's $2 per-pack-tax on cigarettes.
One of Virginia’s leading abortion rights groups says about 70 percent of the state’s crisis pregnancy centers told patients that the procedure leads to psychological damage, alcoholism, drug addiction or eating disorders.
Los Angeles voters approved measure D, which limits the city's dispensaries to the 135 or so that were in business when the council began trying to regulate them in 2007.
The retail industry reported the greatest number of breaches, followed by financial institutions and insurance providers.
Iowa's GOP Gov. Terry Branstad, referring to the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that will allow same-sex couples legally married in Iowa and 11 other states to get the same tax breaks and other federal benefits as opposite-sex couples.
As U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood leaves office Tuesday, he sees a path forward for solving transportation's biggest problems.
The move will mean more money for infrastructure, but could also frustrate drivers traveling on Independence Day.
The number of partial vetoes Gov. Scott Walker used to strip laws and programs out of Wisconsin's $68 billion budget bill that he signed over the weekend.
In signing the $68 billion state budget bill into law, the Republican governor used his substantial partial veto power to strip out a number of laws and programs he did not want.
Small and midsize cities are behind in harnessing data to make a city run smarter. Dubuque, Iowa, is bucking that trend.
Four U.S. senators are hoping to answer a question states have long been asking: where will the country permanently deposit the thousands of tons of nuclear waste piling up at sites ill-suited to handle the load?
Parent trigger laws are a controversial and drastic step when schools are failing, but are being increasingly talked about. Bills to either create new parent trigger laws or modify existing ones – in some cases expanding them to potentially include more struggling schools -- are still alive in about a dozen states.
Gov. John Kasich last night vetoed language attempting to block him from moving forward with Medicaid expansion, but did not touch any of the anti-abortion language before signing the new two-year, $62 billion state budget.
A review of the governor’s budget vetoes shows the first-term Republican has vetoed $110 million worth of public education programs and services since 2011, vetoes that account for more than a quarter of the $419 million she has vetoed in state spending since 2011.
For the first time, the Republican governor withheld his veto pen and signed exactly what lawmakers passed Monday.
The ruling is the latest legal setback for Gov. Bobby Jindal, who backed the pension changes, after seeing his education overhaul struck down earlier this year.
Nineteen elite firefighters who died battling a fast-moving wildfire here Sunday in the country's worst wildfire disaster in at least 30 years have been hailed by President Obama as "heroes."
Gov. Jay Inslee signed a new two-year budget on Sunday, averting a government shutdown that state officials had been planning for in case the new spending plan wasn't in place by the end of the weekend.
Trains will not run for the Monday morning commute, which could be a nightmare of gridlock and longer travel times.
Gov. Perry had signaled that he would make his decision about the 2014 governor’s race known by July 1. But that turned out to be the day the next 30-day special session begins.
Around the nation, July 1 marks the start of new fiscal years and the date recently passed legislation goes into effect, although states often mark their independence by enacting new regulations on their own calendars.
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