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Kimberly Mitchell, executive director of Everglades Trust, reacting to news that GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed a biologist as the state's first chief science officer. His predecessor was criticized for not addressing climate change and for banning the term from state government.
Reported measles cases this year, which is the highest in the past five years. The once-eradicated disease spread to four more states last week.
From Kansas City, Mo., to Tampa, Fla., a record number of large cities could elect an openly gay woman as mayor this year.
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“I think about it every minute of every day. Now, thinking about it and doing it are two different things,” Manchin said. “I’ll make a decision this fall sometime. I don’t think there’s any hurry at all.”
Robert Foster, a state representative from Hernando, is seeking the GOP nomination against former state Supreme Court Justice Bill Waller Jr. and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves.
More than 1.4 million people across the Garden State are getting their drinking water from systems that are dealing with high levels of lead.
The Texas Education Agency said Friday that it is discussing solutions with the federal government and the Legislature.
Law enforcement groups are worried about the shifting political climate on this issue.
A bill authorizing the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance to share tax return information with Congressional committees was introduced Monday by state Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan).
Now, measles has been found in more than a third of U.S. states — up and down both coasts, and across the plains, the Midwest and the South — with most of the illnesses occurring in children.
Most of them are being killed off by automation, but they are still common in certain parts of the country. See where.
Of death among Native American women and girls is murder. In some counties, their murder rate is more than 10 times the national average.
Carmel, Ind., Mayor Jim Brainard, in testimony last week before a U.S. House subcommittee on environment and climate change.
Michael E. Busch, the longest-serving House of Delegates speaker in Maryland history and a champion of the state's schools and the Chesapeake Bay, died Sunday.
The 350-mile, $2.5bn Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline through southern Pennsylvania has sparked growing outrage.
Rather than lobby the U.S. Congress, partisan organizations, business interests, and religious groups with national agendas plant these bills in statehouses across the country.
The controversial ban went into effect late last month in an effort to contain an outbreak of measles that began in October. Nearly 170 cases have been confirmed in the county.
The governor chose the smallest country in Central America as the backdrop for his debut on the world's stage to observe its socio-economic conditions, which send tens of thousands of Salvadorans fleeing for the U.S. each year.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill Sunday that will raise the legal age for purchasing cigarettes, e-cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 statewide.
During the 2010 census, more than 30% of Midwood households failed to respond to mailings, requiring costly and fallible follow-up interviews.
“This wall is unnecessary, and an abuse of power that will take away resources that could be used to help Americans across our nation,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Twitter.
The state has made a number of key reforms to streamline its recruiting and hiring. One big change? Using plain English.
The number of people in Louisiana who have been booted from Medicaid after an upgraded state computer check determined they earn too much to receive the government-run health insurance.
New Jersey Superior Court Judge John Russo Jr. speaking to an alleged rape victim during a May 2016 hearing. The comments have come under scrutiny by the state Supreme Court.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued an opinion declaring that the exclusion of a Buddhist adviser was religious discrimination and proposed two alternatives for the Texas prison system: Don’t allow any chaplains into the execution chambers, or allow chaplains of all religions.
As of now, 36 states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Louisiana’s health department sent notices to 40,000 Medicaid recipients in February, warning them they would lose the insurance coverage unless they could demonstrate by March 29 that they met the program’s income requirements.
House Bill 55 allows New Mexico to join a compact of states that would allocate their electors in a presidential campaign to the candidate who wins the most votes nationally.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation to replace Georgia's electronic voting machines with a touchscreen-and-paper ballot election system, after a polarizing debate over how to balance the integrity of the vote with ensuring accurate election results.
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