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Hawaii's state emergency manager resigned Tuesday after officials said a recent false alarm warning of an incoming missile was triggered by an employee who got confused during an unplanned drill and thought the state was really under attack.
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was arrested for having a loaded handgun at the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport in Jackson on Jan. 2, according to the Associated Press.
Louis Jacobson, Politifact senior correspondent and Governing contributor, makes his predictions based on consultations with multiple experts in the states as well as national party strategists.
At one point in his address, the president seemed to call for abolishing civil service protections for federal employees.
Learn what budget-strapped agencies can do to compete for the best talent and create their workforce of the future.
Jackie Biskupski, mayor of Salt Lake City, on her decision to speak out about being raped in college. Biskupski says she was empowered to do so in the wake of the #metoo movement, which has brought new light to the issue of sexual harassment and assault.
The number of nonemergency medical transportation (NEMT) trips taken each year by sick patients on Medicaid. Some states are trying to limit NEMT benefits, which could leave some patients with no way to make their appointments.
A sitting commissioner in the sleepy Miami-Dade coastal town of North Bay Village, Hornsby was removed from office Monday after government officials determined he was never eligible to take his post.
Chris Christie is trading a beach chair for a seat in a news studio.
Idaho is saying it will allow insurers to ignore some ACA rules on plans not sold on the marketplace, aiming to make these state-based plans less costly.
For more than 50 years, the program for the poor and sick has been required to ferry certain clients to and from medical appointments. But a few states have sought — and received — waivers to that rule.
Amazon is diving into health care, teaming up with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and the New York bank JPMorgan Chase, to create a company that helps their U.S. employees find quality care "at a reasonable cost."
Gov. Murphy on Monday signed an executive order for New Jersey to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, reversing a decision by former Gov. Chris Christie that has rankled environmentalists for seven years.
Eliminating layers of them would do more than save money. It would empower public workers and unleash their capabilities.
As civic employees work tirelessly to coordinate relief efforts, their human resource teams care for them.
The cities that achieved the top grades in a new certification program have important things in common.
Connecticut, New York and New Jersey say that GOP tax policies unduly punish their populations. Some doubt whether their claims would stand up in court.
“I grew up believing that’s what you do, that when a problem arises it’s your civic duty to step in and fashion a solution for your community."
The amount of money the Michigan Senate spent to investigate and settle sexual harassment complaints a decade ago.
Travis Allen, a GOP Assemblyman from California, called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump to arrest California AG Xavier Becerra for enforcing a state law on immigration. Becerra made headlines when he stressed that businesses giving up information on their immigrant employees would be subject to prosecution. "It’s important, given these rumors that are out there, to let people know — more specifically today, employers — that if they voluntarily start giving up information about their employees or access to their employees in ways that contradict our new California laws, they subject themselves to actions by my office," Becerra said.
In a report released last week, the "Fix NYC" transportation task force, appointed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last fall, recommended charging drivers a fee to enter Manhattan's central business district — and using the revenue to improve the public transit system.
Four months after Hurricane Irma buzz-sawed its way across South Florida, the state’s busiest national park is understandably still recovering. But the shoddy conditions date way before the latest storm
In an ironic twist, the Trump administration's embrace of work requirements for low-income people on Medicaid is prompting lawmakers in some conservative states to resurrect plans to expand health care for the poor.
Republican lawmakers typically tout the benefits of local control. But in states across the country, they have taken action to rein in cities that want to enact progressive measures such as gun control laws and minimum wage hikes. Now plastic bags have become an unlikely flashpoint in the conflict between blue cities and their red state legislatures.
In response to a deadly school shooting in western Kentucky this week, some state lawmakers are pushing to pass a bill that would allow school districts to appoint campus staff members to become armed guards.
The blue wave some Democrats hope for has to be big enough to top the red seawall that protects Republicans. The Democrats don’t need a wave in 2018 — they need a tsunami.
When families on welfare failed work requirements in Kansas, they fell into deep poverty. Could the same thing happen with Medicaid?
Homicide rates are at an all-time high in the city, and its police department has been mired in turmoil. The state is stepping in.
The meals served to prisoners have been a catalyst for riots throughout history. Prison advocates and workers say outsourcing the kitchens to companies only makes them worse.
Mayors gathered in Washington last week worried that the White House’s plan would drain their resources. But they were hopeful that the new money could come directly to cities, instead of through the states.
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