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Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Medical Aid in Dying bill Friday, making New Jersey the eighth state to allow terminally ill patients to request prescriptions from their doctors for medication to end their lives.
In 11 states, higher-education appropriations have not recovered at all from the worst years of the Great Recession, according to a report by the association of State Higher Education Executive Officers.
Some say the rush to pass these bills is about lawmakers competing to get their particular state's law before the Supreme Court. The state that helps overturn Roe v. Wade would go down in history.
In an attempt to retaliate against Democrats, President Trump and White House officials reportedly plotted to release detained immigrants into sanctuary cities.
Gov. Mike DeWine signed the "Heartbeat Bill" on Thursday, after eight years of the controversial measure falling short of becoming law. The action was met with applause and shouts of "thank you, governor!" by the crowd of about 30 proponents invited inside the governor's ceremonial Statehouse office.
Buddy, a 34-year-old man who sleeps at the Las Vegas Courtyard, which -- unlike most homeless shelters -- allows people to stay with their partner, to store their belongings, to have pets and to show up drunk or high.
Increase in voter registrations in Georgia after the state enacted automatic voter registration (AVR). More than a dozen states either have or are in the process of implementing AVR.
Last week, corrections officials faced a backlash after banning nonprofit groups from mailing used books to prisoners. This week, their math is raising eyebrows.
The city's law department filed a civil complaint on Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County "that pursues the full measure of damages allowed under the false statements ordinance," a spokesman said in a statement to The Times.
Kentucky officials announced Wednesday their plan to take advantage of what's called "rapid DNA" technology in which machines analyze a forensic sample and can produce a DNA profile within about two hours.
Former Douglas County prosecutor David Emadi, who started his new job Monday, also said his office will soon decide whether to prosecute the campaigns of Atlanta mayoral candidates.
The bill, introduced by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, however, would exempt safety, sensitive security jobs and those tied to a federal or state contract or grant from the policy.
High-paying blue-collar jobs lifted incomes in West Virginia, New York and Illinois last year, even though the states lost residents.
The United States is almost alone among industrial countries and other democracies in putting most of the onus of registering to vote on individual voters.
Parents of students killed and injured in the 2018 mass murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have filed more than 20 lawsuits, alleging negligence by the Broward Sheriff's Office, the Broward County School Board and Henderson Behavorial Health and "willful and wanton negligence" against former BSO school resource officer Scot Peterson and campus monitor Andrew Medina.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little approved legislation Tuesday adding work restrictions and other conditions to the voter-approved Medicaid expansion initiative.
Despite scores of protesters both outside and inside the legislative chambers Wednesday, Ohio lawmakers approved what both sides are labeling the strictest abortion law in the nation.
Building anything anywhere is a short-sighted approach to fixing the affordability crisis.
As the idea of "free college" gains popularity, Virginia and Iowa are instead focused on career and technical education.
For sustainability to be successful, it must also be affordable. Spokane, Wash.'s mayor thinks it can be.
The way governments are measuring results is becoming kinder -- and more effective.
How housing shortages, NIMBYism and traffic are reshaping America.
Its problems didn't start with Trump, but he ironically may be helping to turn some of them around.
Well-run governments must have clear lines of leadership. Just ask Pueblo, Colo.
California Sen. Richard Pan, a pediatrician who introduced a bill to require the state health department to sign off on medical exemptions and to let the department revoke exemptions that are inconsistent with CDC guidelines. Outbreaks of measles -- a once-eradicated disease -- have been reported in more than a dozen states this year.
States that have loopholes that make it legal to rape your spouse. Minnesota and Ohio are considering bills that would close them.
The part of the 2017 law that high-tax states are battling in court is likely helping them lower their debt -- at least in the short-term.
Protecting providers from competition is the enemy of efficiency and integrated mobility. It's an issue that New York City's congestion pricing will address.
Students in Indiana's Elkhart School District are served breakfast and lunch at school, but may go hungry on nights and weekends. So, the school joined forces with an innovative nonprofit to ensures kids in need have enough to eat.
A California court decision could harm not just businesses but also workers and consumers. And the misguided idea shows signs of spreading to other states.
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