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That’s what federal officials told Idaho regulators and the state’s governor late Thursday regarding the state’s plan to allow insurers to sell health plans that fall short of the Affordable Care Act’s requirements.
The White House said Sunday that the federal government will help provide "rigorous firearms training" for qualified volunteer school personnel as part of a package of policy changes he will proposal after the mass shootings in Parkland, Fla.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law sweeping changes to school safety and gun access Friday _ a measure crafted in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
A new tech startup allows cities to chart drug usage down to the neighborhood level.
Most mayors said people of color experienced worse treatment by police and the courts and had worse access to education, housing and health care.
Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson of Gary, Ind., and Mayor Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento spoke on a special SXSW preview episode of Governing's newest podcast, Go Public.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, last week while discussing a proposal to cut the group out of the state's gun permitting process.
Import taxes that the conservative Tax Foundation estimates states could pay this year because of President Trump's tariffs on aluminum and steel. Florida, Ohio, Texas and Utah would pay the bulk.
As homelessness rises nationwide, Las Vegas is taking a gamble on a new way of helping the homeless. But some say it's money that could be better spent.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Gerardo Alejandrez used to punch classmates, throw chairs and curse at his teachers, conduct that forced him to switch from school to school. “I had a lot of anger issues,” the 16-year-old said recently.
A judge in Mercer County on Thursday ordered two affluent New Jersey towns to plan for more low- and middle-income housing within their boundaries, a long-anticipated ruling some say might force municipalities statewide to build more affordable housing.
Almost seven months after Charlottesville became synonymous with resurgent white supremacy and political violence, the Virginia General Assembly has rejected virtually every legislative proposal stemming from the deadly rally that shook the city last summer.
State Rep. Angel Arce, under mounting pressure to resign following revelations that a series of text messages went from his Facebook account to a 16-year-old girl, announced Wednesday that he would step down from his legislative seat.
For years, Oklahoma teachers have rallied at the Capitol, run for state office and campaigned for a statewide sales tax increase, all in the hopes of reversing the state's status as the lowest paying for public school teachers.
It may be years before the courts decide the Trump administration's lawsuit that seeks to overturn California's sanctuary laws, but the political impact will be felt in just months. And it likely won't help Republicans.
The California Senate has reprimanded Sen. Bob Hertzberg and told him to stop initiating his trademark hugs after an investigation determined that his behavior made two female legislators and a male sergeant-at-arms uncomfortable.
The Trump administration sent a letter to Idaho Gov. Butch Otter on Thursday turning thumbs-down on his proposal to allow the sale of health insurance plans in Idaho that don't comply with the Affordable Care Act.
"There’s an important principle here that affects not just Gateway but every major project in the country," says the head of the project that advocates call one of the nation's most crucial.
Florida is closest to ending the clock-changing practice, but other states have flirted with the idea.
As city leaders from around the country meet at South by Southwest in Austin, they'll discuss the forces that will shape urbanism for decades to come.
Florida state Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, to lawmakers who struggled with whether to vote for a bill to raise the age to buy a gun and take guns from people who pose a threat. He said he's haunted by the screams of parents learning that their children were victims of last month's school shooting in Parkland.
Portland city commissioners made permanent on Wednesday a program that requires landlords to pay renters' moving costs if they are evicted without cause or are forced to move because of a rent increase of 10 percent or more.
A wave of Texas women candidates won or made it to runoffs in more than 50 primary races statewide amid a surge of interest in running for office among women around the country.
For the second time in less than a week, a storm rolled into the Northeast with wet, heavy snow Wednesday, grounding flights, closing schools and bringing another round of power outages to a corner of the country still recovering from the previous blast of winter.
A long-simmering battle between the Trump administration and California over immigration boiled over Wednesday, with Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions deriding the state's "irrational, unfair and unconstitutional policies" and Gov. Jerry Brown accusing the federal government of launching "a reign of terror."
California's three new "sanctuary" laws, challenged in court this week by the Trump administration, face different hurdles and have varying vulnerabilities, legal experts said Wednesday.
A bill prohibiting domestic abusers and people under restraining orders from owning firearms became America’s first new gun control law since the Feb. 14 Florida high school massacre.
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