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Rooms at Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., paid for by Maine taxpayers while then-Gov. Paul LePage and his staff were in town to meet with the president and members of Congress. The rooms cost $362 to more than $1,100 a night.
David Carney, a Republican consultant, on the importance of conducting opposition research on oneself.
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Unless agencies continue to modernize and make digital transformation a priority, meeting the expectations of constituents and employees will become increasingly difficult.
A case over a Hawaii wastewater treatment plant could redefine the scope of the federal law that regulates pollution in lakes, rivers, streams and oceans.
Former Gov. Paul LePage and his staff members paid for more than 40 rooms at Washington, D.C.’s Trump International Hotel during a two-year period, spending at least $22,000 in Maine taxpayer money at a business owned by the president’s family.
Candy Noble and Angela Paxton were the only freshman female Republicans elected to the Texas House and Senate, respectively, amid a surge of women running for office.
The screening process failed to detect a mid-1990s felony conviction for aggravated assault in Mississippi for which he served five years in prison and was released in 1997.
Monday marked the first time that state officials revealed the findings of their nearly three-month investigation into voting irregularities.
Pamela Taylor, 57, admitted on Tuesday that she falsely registered for more than $18,000 in FEMA disaster benefits after historic flooding in Clay County, West Virginia, in June 2016, the U.S. attorney's office said in a statement.
All but one of West Virginia's 54 countywide public school systems canceled school Tuesday.
Flights and some toll roads cost the most when demand is highest. Now California wants residents to get used to the same dynamic when it comes to purchasing electricity.
The 16 states, led by California, where the complaint was filed, wrote in the suit that they have filed the complaint in light of "President Donald J. Trump's flagrant disregard of fundamental separation of powers principles engrained in the United States Constitution."
As a project in Long Beach demonstrates, treating people as individuals rather than as statistics can yield big benefits.
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, referring to the failure of the state's Department of Education and Department of Law Enforcement to create a centralized system for monitoring social media threats by last year's December deadline.
Pay raise that Denver teachers negotiated after they went on strike for three days, according to the union. The district, by contrast, said the average raise will be 11.7 percent.
Denver's schools began returning to normalcy Thursday morning in the wake of a marathon all-night bargaining session that brought an end to the city's first teachers strike in 25 years.
A member of Portland's city council said Thursday a newspaper's report that the commander for the police rapid response team exchanged friendly text messages with a leader of far-right protests that have rocked the city confirms collusion exists between some police and right-wing extremists.
Highlighting a lack of revenue and too much borrowing, the state transportation director gave Ohio lawmakers a blunt assessment Wednesday of Ohio's road construction finances.
In a letter sent to state lawmakers late Wednesday, Whitley largely defended the review efforts as a legally sound exercise, and he did not admit that his office had erred when it mistakenly threw into question the eligibility of tens of thousands of U.S. citizens or when it sent counties lists of voters it knew very likely included naturalized citizens.
If the Florida Supreme Court accepts the petition by DeSantis, this would be the fourth time a grand jury has investigated the school district.
Tennessee does not have an explicit hate crime charge, though the General Assembly in 2000 added a hate crime factor to judges' sentencing rules for crimes targeting a person based on race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry or gender.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló on Thursday threatened legal action against President Trump if American citizens foot the bill for his long-desired border wall.
President Donald Trump and Congress took the federal government to the brink of another shutdown this week. And yet again, states and cities had to prepare for the worst.
The online retail giant's plans in New York attracted bad PR for a new federal program aimed at helping economically distressed areas like Long Island City.
Democrats once fought to keep her from becoming Obama's education secretary. Now she's set to lead California's State Board of Education, where she could influence the national party's education stances.
How much home sales impacts a place depends a lot on its property tax policies.
New York State Sen. Michael Gianaris, a Democrat, after Amazon cancelled plans to build a corporate campus in New York City. The highly publicized search for a new headquarters site drew criticism from residents and lawmakers. Gianaris went on to add: “The only thing that happened here is that a community that was going to be profoundly affected by their presence started asking questions."
The amount Google said it will spend on data centers and offices in the United States this year. With the new investment Google will now be in 24 U.S. states.
After the blackface scandals involving Virginia politicians, expect more candidates to dig up dirt on themselves while keeping in mind the changing culture of America and the power of the internet.
In almost every state where ballot measures to expand Medicaid have passed, Republicans have tried to change the voter-approved laws.
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