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The 1978 federal pregnancy discrimination law hasn’t kept up with changes in the workplace, and efforts to reform it have failed.
It’s an increasingly divisive question. If the goal is to affect change -- from gun control to climate change -- some argue that to divest is the best, while others believe pensions would have more power keeping their financial stake.
Cities are eliminating requirements for new buildings to have parking.
It wouldn't be the first time lawmakers have attempted to strip a new governor of some power. But it is rare.
Springfield, Mass., is in the best shape it’s been in a generation.
Whether governments are leveraging technology to streamline services or engaging their employees in meaningful ways, state and local leaders are embracing a strategic approach to attract and retain the talent they need.
Of all the new governors, few will change the culture of their states as much as him.
"This is something that school districts are just going to have to plan for," says an education official in Washington state, which is proactively helping these students succeed and secure housing.
Some cities are closing recycling plants. Others are ending curbside pickup. For recycling to be sustainable, consumers must learn to sort their trash better.
More than 15 percent of students are missing almost a month of school. Districts don't know how to address the issue.
The White House has learned that there’s more than one way to attack a liberal-leaning federal government.
It’s a massive shift in the dynamic between outlying communities and urban cores.
As Maryland has learned, it’s crucial to know the costs of proposed legislation.
Fiscal incentives can encourage local governments to consolidate redundant operations.
Jim Kenney is focused on rebuilding public spaces that everyone uses as a way to address the highest poverty rate of any big U.S. city.
There’s still plenty of coverage of governors and legislatures. But the void of newspaper reporters has been filled with partisan-slanted bloggers.
Suicide note from Alfredo Lopez, a New York state prisoner who was found hanging in his cell on Jan. 13, 2015. Despite testing drug-free 10 times while in prison, he was repeatedly locked in solitary confinement for occasions when he was unable to pee for a drug test -- a symptom he blamed on a medical condition. While in solitary, he was not given his pain medication. His death is one of 50 in the last few years that a state review board concluded could have been prevented with medical care.
Residents of Butte County, Calif., who were not signed up for emergency alerts at the time of the Camp Fire, which has become the deadliest wildfire in the state's history.
State Epidemiologist and State Health Officer Dr. Katrina Hedberg said the guidelines are part of a much larger strategy the state has been using since 2016 to curb the abuse of opioids, such as oxycodone or hydrocodone.
Her remarks Tuesday came during her first news conference since the Nov. 6 election, when a reporter asked about the thoughts on the increased controversy surrounding King.
Sgt. Marc Dennis was in charge of calibrating the devices, and authorities have alleged that he skipped a required step in the calibration process. Dennis has denied any wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty to records tampering and other charges.
Officials with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision say that even one such case is unacceptable, but that only around 0.02% of the total prison population of nearly 50,000 are referenced in the reports.
Some of those who escaped from the massive Camp Fire last week questioned why Butte County leaders did not do more to warn residents of Paradise and neighboring mountain communities as a fire whipped with fearsome speed through the mountainous region north of Sacramento.
Citing a lack of evidence pointing to any wrongdoing, the judge stopped short of granting the Scott campaign’s request for an injunction to impound the machines.
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh filed a motion Tuesday in federal court challenging President Donald Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting U.S. attorney general after the ouster last week of Jeff Sessions.
The winning packages, disclosed by Amazon on Tuesday, paled next to Washington state's historic $8.7 billion giveaway to Boeing five years ago.
Small schools and high poverty schools are putting their students at the biggest disadvantage, according to a new report.
Thad Kousser, political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, describing outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown’s persona.
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