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A cost-benefit model is the best route to creating fiscally prudent incentive packages.
The attorneys general from California and Massachusetts, Xavier Becerra and Maura Healey, said on Monday they are leading the case, after the EPA denied the states’ petition that it collect more data on asbestos.
Beating back the plant requires coordination between different agencies and levels of government, sustained commitment and funding.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Friday evening a controversial bill limiting how many felons will be able to vote, undercutting much of the promise of last year’s historic Amendment 4.
It will allow duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and "cottage clusters" on land previously reserved for single family houses in cities with more than 25,000 residents, as well as smaller cities in the Portland metro area
A new state law beginning July 1, which received unanimous support in the South Dakota House and Senate, is the first step in understanding the depth of the missing and murdered indigenous women issue in the state and begin to address it.
The Official Recall Colorado Governor Jared Polis committee doesn't have the support to start its recall petition campaign July 8, but a rival group plans to move forward.
Las Vegas is one of just 30 U.S. communities chosen to participate in ConnectHomeUSA.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Friday erased $130 million in state support for the public university system on top of a $5 million cut approved by the Legislature for the fiscal year that started Monday.
Fearing more changes from Congress, states and cities are turning less and less to the municipal bond market.
They're bringing new perspectives and ideas.
Jonathan Singer, one of just two state legislators who endorsed the Colorado ballot measure that legalized recreational marijuana. He was talking to a reporter in his car while his 3-year-old sat in the back seat.
Criminal records that Pennsylvania is automatically sealing for charges that didn't result in convictions and low-level misdemeanors committed by people who haven't incurred any other charges within a decade. The state's Clean Slate law is unprecedented in America.
One study, conducted at the University of Michigan Law School, found people who received expungements saw their wages increase by an average of 25 percent within two years.
Colorado’s first-in-the-nation experiment with legalized marijuana has infused the drug into almost every corner of life.
Pritzker said the order establishes a new Affirming and Inclusive Schools Task Force, and directs the state’s public school board to take “comprehensive action” to better support transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students.
Gov. David Ige has approved a new law that enables family members, co-workers or police to obtain court orders blocking access to firearms for people who show signs they could pose a danger to themselves or others.
The settlement stipulates $200 million, or the bulk of the settlement, must go toward establishing a national center for addiction treatment at the Oklahoma State University Center for Wellness and Recovery in Tulsa.
A loss of accreditation would prevent university students from receiving federal financial aid, as well as affect processes for transfer students.
Medicaid recipients in Arizona can now use Lyft to travel to non-emergency medical appointments, with similar laws on the way in Florida and Texas.
Much remains in flux, including the possibility of land being taken through eminent domain to widen evacuation routes.
Patricia Okonta, a legal fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, referring to school dress codes that prohibit hairstyles typically associated with black people, such as afros, braids, twists, and locks. California is on its way to becoming the first state to ban discrimination against natural hair.
Anticipated reduction in non-citizens' response rate to the 2020 Census if it includes a citizenship question. That translates to an overall drop of 2.2 percentage points for all households.
That number represents about 2.5 million more voters than were removed from 2013 to 2014 under the National Voting Rights Act, which mandates that states allow increased voting and registration opportunities as well as maintain accurate and current voting rolls.
The New York City Council passed the legislation Wednesday, calling for an immediate response to the global climate crises.
The bill, which the Senate approved in April, updates the state's anti-discrimination law so that the term "race" includes "traits historically associated with race."
The attack hit the city on June 10 after being targeted with malware attack known as "Triple Threat." The ransom request came days later.
Used by countless state lawmakers around the country for the past two centuries, walking out grinds legislative action to a halt.
Conversion therapy, banned in 16 states and Washington, D.C., is an umbrella of interventions — such as hypnosis or physical distress — to change a child's sexual orientation or gender identity.
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