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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.
For now, it's the Republicans. Seven GOP-held AG seats, compared to three for the Democrats, are being hotly contested.
The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a decision on when partisan gerrymandering goes too far, ruling against the challengers of a Republican-drawn map in Wisconsin, and a Democratic redistricting in Maryland.
The state is the only one nationwide that bans municipal police officers from using radar to enforce speed limits. For the last 57 years, Pennsylvania has reserved that technology for state troopers.
Ohio is still waiting for a state Supreme Court ruling that will either drive the final nail into [the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow's] coffin or let the controversial online school rise from the dead.
But the assets of the recently closed charter school are being sold off, some in surprising ways, as state officials start digging into major lingering issues about online schools overall.
The unprecedented outpouring of activism from students after the shooting at Marjorie Douglas Stoneman High School in Parkland, Fla., in February is the genesis for a bill introduced in the Legislature last week that would change the voting age in Michigan to 16.
After a bruising, month-long fight in which Amazon and other businesses squelched a new corporate head tax to fund homeless services, Seattle is struggling to find a path forward to deal with a crisis that's exploded in recent years.
They are a torment for motorists and a costly headache for transportation departments. Every winter and spring, potholes plague city streets and rural roads, causing drivers to curse and public works officials to shudder.
Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra fought to reinstate the law in recent weeks with a court appeal. He celebrated the court's most recent action Friday.
Law enforcement leaders in Houston and elsewhere joined in Sunday on condemning President Donald Trump's 'zero-tolerance' immigration policy, which is leading to the separation of thousands of young children from their parents in recent weeks.
Days after a tent city went up near El Paso, demonstrators near the facility took aim at the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from parents who were seeking asylum.
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