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At least she didn't used to. Now, she says, times have changed.
His executive order, signed on Wednesday, comes after days of governors and mayors escalating their words of opposition into actions attempting to block the immigration policy announced in April.
Oklahoma will become the first state in the nation to oversee coal ash disposal within its borders, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday, a decision that pleased utility companies and worried environmentalists.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will sue the federal government over its policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the southern border, as more than 70 of those children have wound up in facilities in New York State _ with a federal source telling the New York Daily News the number of separated children here is even higher, 311.
Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order on Tuesday that will bar any state resources from being used to help federal authorities separate children and their parents who are seeking to enter the U.S.
D.C. voters backed Initiative 77 Tuesday, raising the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, up from the current level of $12.50, and phasing out the $3.33 an hour minimum wage for tipped workers.
California would lead the U.S. in significantly changing the standard for when police can fire their weapons under legislation that cleared its first hurdle Tuesday after an emotionally charged debate over deadly shootings that have roiled the country.
In a high-stakes and fast-moving legal dispute, Gov. Paul LePage on Monday filed a second appeal of a lower court ruling requiring the administration to move forward with an expansion of Medicaid approved by Maine voters in 2017.
The New York Police Department will spare many people who smoke marijuana in public from getting arrested and will give them a ticket instead.
A bipartisan group of seven governors rejected President Donald Trump's request to send their states' National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border because they object to the administration's policy of separating minor children from asylum-seeking adults.
Aubrey Vincent, sales manager for Lindy’s Seafood, a crab wholesaler on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Lindy's and other "picking houses" rely on seasonal Mexican laborers with H2-B visas to process the crab harvest. But the federal government this year changed the way it distributes those visas, moving from a first-come, first-served system to a lottery. Half the state's crab houses failed to get visas, leaving them without any workers for the upcoming season. One seafood wholesaler previously told the Baltimore Sun that "this is going to cause the price of crab meat to go out of sight. There’s not going to be hardly any Maryland crab meat."
Number of sessions convened by the Louisiana Legislature in the past three years. The latest session, which began Monday, is already the fourth one called by lawmakers in 2018.
Lawsuits are costing governments millions, and, in some cases, forcing them to shut down departments.
Improving the on-time completion rate is critical to ensuring communities' economic health. Mayors have an important role.
The decision is unlikely to have widespread impact but represents a rebuke to the White House.
Gov. Charlie Baker is reversing a decision to send a Massachusetts National Guard helicopter to the country’s southern border, citing the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents.
Lawmakers have already tried -- and failed -- to reach a consensus on taxes in a regular session in 2017 and two previous special sessions this year.
Democrats no longer make up a majority of registered voters in Kentucky, dipping below 50 percent for the first time since at least the World War II era.
The intensified hostility between the governor and state Legislature pushes New Jersey closer to the possibility of a second state government shutdown in two years.
Rendell said he had begun having symptoms including a slight tremor three and a half years ago, and sought medical attention at the urging of his family.
The measure would have imposed a higher income tax rate for personal earnings above $1 million, a levy that would have brought in an estimated $2 billion in new revenue next year.
County Board President Toni Preckwinkle called the fiscal gap "difficult and challenging."
A federal judge has struck down a Kansas voter citizenship law that Secretary of State Kris Kobach had personally defended.
Her candidacy may not loom as a major threat on its own, but it just might attract enough votes in concert with other left-leaning opponents to present a big time problem for the incumbent Democrat.
Most New Yorkers caught smoking marijuana will face criminal summonses instead of being arrested, under a new city policy announced by the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio Tuesday.
In cities and counties across the country — including Little Rock, Ark.; Phoenix, Ariz.; southeast Michigan; central Utah; and in Tennessee — the Koch brothers are fueling a fight against public transit, an offshoot of their longstanding national crusade for lower taxes and smaller government.
Under fire for child detention centers in Texas, the Trump administration has also reopened a Florida facility that once housed children who entered the country illegally and alone.
Themis Klarides is defying expectations and redefining leadership in the Connecticut legislature.
Number of children, according to the Trump administration, who have been separated from parents facing criminal prosecution for unlawfully crossing the border over a six-week period that ended last month. Controversy over the practice has led to growing cries for the White House to end the "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal immigration that it put in place in April.
Diana Ramirez, deputy co-director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a nationwide advocacy group and the leader of an effort in Washington, D.C., to end the practice of allowing restaurants and bars to pay below-mimimum wages and make up the difference in tips. D.C. residents will vote Tuesday on whether to repeal the so-called tip credit. Restaurants have said the added workforce expense would put many eateries out of business.
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