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The debate is likely dead until next year.
The Sacramento City Teachers Association, embroiled in a labor dispute with the Sacramento City Unified School District, announced Tuesday that it will hold its second strike on May 22.
A bill making it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion passed in the Alabama House of Representatives Tuesday 74 to 3.
The morning after Mohamed Noor became Minnesota's first law enforcement officer to be convicted of murder while on duty, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey acknowledged that trust in his police force needs to be shored up.
The front lines in a bitter debate between Israel’s defenders and critics now lie in an unexpected place: state capitals across America.
Don Gathers, former chair of Charlottesville, Va.'s Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces, after a judge ruled that the city needs the state's permission to remove its Confederate monuments. In 2017, the monuments were a source of conflict at a white supremacist rally that left one counterprotester dead.
Time that a Mississippi prison has been on lockdown due to a shortage of corrections officers. Most of the inmates are locked in their cells for 23 hours a day and not allowed visitors.
States are receiving mixed messages from the federal government and have unanswered questions about their plans to lower drug prices.
Roughly 1,800 of the 3,000 inmates at the South Mississippi prison in Leaksville are locked in their cells 23 hours a day and haven't been allowed visitors in at least three months.
The unanimous ruling partially overturns an April 2018 Appeals Court decision that highlighted the challenges of mediating battles between parents who differ on how to handle kids exploring their gender identities.
He declined to sign a bill establishing redistricting criteria for the process and rejected a proposal that would allow for redistricting outside of the census process.
De Blasio announced the executive order, which includes all future advertising contracts or contract renewals, citing a study that exposure to alcohol advertisements can increase the likelihood of alcohol consumption.
UNCC Police Chief Jeff Baker confirmed that a suspect, who had been armed with a pistol, was taken into custody, but would not identify the alleged shooter
A Virginia judge has ruled that statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson in Charlottesville are war monuments that the city cannot remove without permission from the state.
Two states are seeking to intervene on the side of the federal government after four conservation groups asked a judge to immediately halt drilling, mining and other activities to protect habitat for a ground-dwelling bird in seven Western states.
A handful of states are requiring doctors to give or at least offer a prescription for the overdose rescue drug to patients taking high doses of opioid painkillers.
Roads and bridges get most of the attention, but America’s public housing is crumbling too, advocates told Congress on Tuesday.
Gov. Phil Murphy took aim at New Jersey's dubious distinction as first in the nation in foreclosures Monday when he signed into law a package of bills intended to help remove the state from the crisis' grip.
Pennsylvania is now the 23rd state to sign on with the U.S. Climate Alliance, as Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday announced the release of the new Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan.
Lake Calhoun is back on the map.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick declares marijuana bill 'dead in the Texas Senate'
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The economy is strong, and the job market is plentiful. That’s a good thing, right? Well, not if you are a government employer competing for talent with the private sector and other municipalities around you.
Federal tax reform and the economy are boosting state coffers -- for now.
Lifetime limit a potential ballot measure would impose on serving in the Arkansas Legislature. If passed, the state would have the strictest term limits in the country. A competing ballot initiative would instead set a 12-year limit but allow lawmakers to run again after a four-year break.
Marc Edwards, the Virginia Tech professor who helped expose the Flint water crisis and now says activists and scientists are exaggerating the danger of the city's current water supply. He has filed lawsuits and public records requests to make his case.
More and more cities are coming to understand that the key to developing their economies is the job-creation assets they already have.
I-1000 repeals Initiative 200, a measure approved by Washington voters 20 years ago. I-200 blocked the government from giving preferential treatment to, or discriminating against, people and groups on the basis of sex, ethnicity, color, race or national origin.
Steve Stenger lied in public statements and took other actions to cover up the crimes, prosecutors said.
In the legislative session that just wrapped up, Arkansas lawmakers sent voters a proposal that would rework the term limits on House and Senate members for the second time in the past several years.
Arpaio was found in contempt of court in 2017 because he continued to make immigration arrests after he was ordered to stop.
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