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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.
Marc Edwards is fighting with Flint activists and Michigan scientists. He said they're exaggerating the danger of city water, which has met federal standards for two years. They said he's unwilling to entertain new research.
One in every 11 Floridians is a noncitizen (according to the Census Bureau’s own American Community Survey, which does ask about citizenship).
Newsom announced his support after the 14-member California Legislative Jewish Caucus made an urgent request for $15 million to be budgeted this year for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which only provided $500,000 last year.
Legislation on Medicaid work requirements died in West Virginia and Wyoming in February and in Iowa in March at virtually the same time a U.S. district judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that work requirements in Medicaid in Kentucky and Arkansas were illegal.
Texas Secretary of State David Whitley has agreed to halt an investigation into the citizenship status of registered voters in a settlement agreement that will end three lawsuits filed by civil rights groups and naturalized citizens.
Los Angeles Fire Department officials said their response to the massive Woolsey fire was complicated by requests from local politicians, according to a document reviewed by The Times.
Days after a judge and court officer were arrested on charges they helped a man evade immigration authorities, advocates are filing a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement's practice of arresting people at local courthouses.
Minnesota state Rep. Zach Stephenson, a Democrat who introduced a bill to repeal the marital rape loophole. In 12 states, it can be legal to rape your spouse.
Increase in monthly welfare benefits for a single mother in Massachusetts with two children -- one born while the family was receiving welfare. The Democratic legislature overrode the GOP governor to end the state's "cap on kids." More than a dozen states still have a similar policy.
President Donald Trump is targeting his home state on Twitter, encouraging the National Rifle Association to leave New York over "oppression of sorts."
After many votes and multiple vetoes, Massachusetts lawmakers have finally lifted the "cap on kids," which denies additional welfare benefits for children born while a family is already receiving welfare.
Mississippi, consistently among those most impoverished states, spent 7.2 percent, or $8.6 million of its welfare funds on these direct cash payments to poor families in 2017.
Gov. Jared Polis’ signed a bill Thursday preventing people accused of many low-level offenses — such as petty, traffic or most municipal charges — from being jailed because they can’t pay their cash bail.
For opponents of the plan, the issue boils down to a clear-cut principle: How can a public hospital that has been a leader in women’s health care and medical services for the gay and transgender community partner with a private system that not only denies such services but also casts them as immoral?
On April 2, the Department of Justice issued a horrifying report on Alabama’s prisons, with graphic accounts of prisoners who were tortured, burned, raped, sodomized, stabbed and murdered in largely unsupervised dorms.
Texas has had the anti-boycott law regarding Israel on its books since 2017.
Kansas' long, bitter fight over abortion entered an intense new phase Friday after the state Supreme Court ruled that women have the right to end a pregnancy.
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