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A state education union leader said Sunday that union leaders are “exploring all avenues” — which could include legal action — after the state Senate mistakenly passed the wrong public employee pay raise bill Saturday.
Gov. Jay Inslee couldn’t get the votes in time to pass one of his top priorities: a tax on carbon dioxide pollution. It would have been the first tax of its kind in the country.
Colorado state Rep. Alec Garnett, on Friday, when lawmakers were voting on whether to expel one of their colleagues for alleged sexual harassment.
Worth of a bond that California lawmakers approved back in 2016 to help finance new housing for the homeless. Not a penny has been spent as the issue of how the debt will be repaid plays out in court.
Predictive technologies promise to let police fight crime before it happens. But do they work?
Gov. Nathan Deal signed legislation to lower state income tax rates Friday, giving quiet approval to a measure that caused a national uproar after Georgia lawmakers punished Delta Air Lines for rescinding discounts for National Rifle Association members.
New Census data show 11.3 percent of homes were vacant last year.
As state security officials mopped up ransomware that attacked Colorado Department of Transportation computers last week, malware struck again Thursday.
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced Thursday that his office had opened an inquiry into The Mission Continues, the charity Gov. Eric Greitens founded in 2007 and left in 2014.
In the two weeks since the Florida school massacre, state lawmakers around the country have introduced bills to ban bump stocks, ban assault weapons, and expand background checks — and also to arm teachers, lighten penalties for carrying without a permit, and waive handgun permit fees.
The White House on Thursday said the Department of Justice was reviewing the actions of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who last weekend alerted residents in advance of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Northern California.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday signed a $176.3 million personal exemption expansion law he said should save an average family of four more than $100 a year once fully implemented in 2021.
After more than a year of tentative approvals, Elizabeth City changed its mind Monday and voted against placing a 25-ton Russian war monument in the North Carolina coastal town’s U.S. Coast Guard Park.
Despite early enthusiasm, even the most liberal states are struggling to get enough support to restore the health insurance requirement that Congress repealed in December.
How well are doctors, nurses and other workers at your local hospital vaccinated against the flu?
When Arkansas lawmakers debated in 2016 whether to renew the state’s Medicaid expansion, many Republican lawmakers were swayed only if some of the 300,000 adults who gained coverage would have to start paying premiums.
Social service providers slammed the LePage administration for its decision to end a statewide child abuse and neglect prevention program even as Maine has witnessed its second horrific case of child abuse in three months.
Scott Surovell was a baby in a stroller when his mother took him to hearings on the Equal Rights Amendment in the early 1970s, and growing up, he often heard stories about the need for the ERA.
More than 40 city leaders have joined a new exchange to share disaster relief expertise with their local counterparts on the island.
In case the Supreme Court legalizes it this summer, states are racing to take advantage of the new revenue. But it likely won't be the jackpot they're hoping for.
Members of the state House released a parody video explaining how a bill becomes a law “with a surprise twist.”
As one award-winning proposal demonstrates, there's much that could be done to get a lot more out of our existing transportation network.
By tapping their residents' knowledge and creativity in sustained ways, cities can achieve more with less.
States that had their websites or voter registration systems compromised by Russia during the 2016 election, according to three senior intelligence officials who said the states were never informed. They were: Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin.
Lyrics to the Utah House of Representative's parody song to the tune of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme song. Their version details how a law is made.
The Justice Department has sued the city of Houston over sex discrimination claims launched by two female firefighters who say their male coworkers tormented them by urinating on the women's bathroom walls and sinks and scrawling vulgar slurs on their belongings.
Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday he is working with lawmakers on legislation to address school safety, though he wouldn't divulge which ideas he supports.
The U.S. intelligence community developed substantial evidence that state websites or voter registration systems in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed covert operatives prior to the 2016 election — but never told the states involved, according to multiple U.S. officials.
A new road project serving the $10 billion Foxconn plant in Racine County could reduce funding for other state roads by as much as $90 million in the current budget, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
The statewide public school employees strike that began last Thursday will continue today, despite state-level union leaders' call for workers to return to schools today following a new proposal from the governor.
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