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Coordinating commissions have fallen out of favor. It’s time to bring them back.
With falling ridership and scrapped expansion projects, urban transit faces an uncertain future.
Queens, N.Y., will soon join the list of places electing district attorneys who reject the tough-on-crime policies of the past. But their approach isn't always well-received by governors.
Gary, Ind., Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, a Democrat, talking about Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican.
State legislators who are Republican women, which represents a decline from before the 2018 midterm elections. Democratic women, by contrast, increased their numbers after November.
Embattled Secretary of State David Whitley -- whose office wrongly challenged the citizenship of thousands of Texas voters -- resigned Monday.
The eight-week ban will take effect in late August.
Oklahoma initially sued three large opioid manufacturers and their affiliated companies, but two of the groups have entered into settlement agreements and been dropped from the lawsuit.
The Education Department “continues to require eligible veterans to take affirmative steps to secure the loan forgiveness that is their statutory right,” the attorneys general wrote.
In their suit, the state attorneys general, all Democrats, said the rule will disrupt their longstanding labor arrangements and make it harder for home care professionals to work together to improve their jobs and better serve their elderly and disabled clients.
The surge of forms that landed in the months before Election Day was chaotic and consuming, according to officials in the state’s two largest counties.
House Bill 1177 passed by a vote of 16-15 and now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature or veto.
On Memorial Day, 51 tornadoes were reported across eight states -- Idaho, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio -- and severe weather is forecast to continue Tuesday and Wednesday.
More people are believed to be relying on family and friends to watch their kids. Minneapolis is helping to educate those informal providers.
More than half of mayors discussed it during their annual State of the City addresses this year -- double the number four years ago.
Clarke Forsythe of the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life, referring to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case guaranteeing women the right to an abortion.
States where the measles has made a comeback in the last year, most recently in Maine. The vaccine-preventable infection can cause pneumonia, encephalitis, brain damage and death.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported the state's first measles case in two years on Tuesday, adding Maine to the growing list of states affected by one the nation's most severe measles outbreak in decades.
The Mueller report indicated the FBI believed Russian hackers sent more than 120 "spearphishing" emails to elections officials throughout the state in 2016.
The legislation brings Maryland to the forefront of states using energy policy to promote investment in green technology.
Gov. Jared Polis signed equal pay legislation into law Wednesday, but it won't take effect for another 19 months, leaving Colorado employers with time to limit their legal liability before 2021.
The legislation, which passed both chambers with bipartisan support, is expected to raise more than $20 million a year for addiction prevention and treatment to stem the opioid crisis.
The company’s product, HEXWAVE, can be hidden in walls and other structures as it scans for objects like guns, knives and explosives obscured by clothing or bags, according to a promotional video on the Liberty Defense website.
The recovery from the Great Recession has in some ways led to a tiny reversal of the Great Migration.
"It's happening again," one man tweeted Wednesday before the sky turned violent. "Just like eight years ago. ..."
Children at risk of losing their home because a proposed U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development rule would disqualify families from living in public housing if they have an undocumented person living with them.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on infrastructure.
Most states have improved their finances since the last one.
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