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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.
Flu diagnoses and hospitalizations in New York have climbed to their highest levels on record prompting the governor to issue an executive order to contain what has been declared an epidemic.
The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut this morning said they are teaming up to challenge new federal tax overhaul law in court.
At the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting this week, a panel of female mayors gathered to discuss the movement's impact on them and the way they lead their communities.
Donn Devine, 88, on why Delaware should update its state song -- which he co-wrote -- to be gender-neutral. A bill to do so has been proposed, but some lawmakers see it as an overreach of political correctness.
Statue of limitations in Michigan, for charging or filing a civil lawsuit against someone suspected of sexually assaulting a minor under the age of 16. The legislature wants to eliminate it after Larry Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor, was sentenced to prison for decades of sexually abusing at least 150 girls.
Concerned about soaring health care costs, Idaho on Wednesday revealed a plan that will allow insurance companies to sell cheap policies that ditch key provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday informed the U.S. Supreme Court that if the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program still exists in June, his office would consider filing suit to eliminate the program.
The candidates who hope to be California's next governor clashed Thursday about immigration, health care and how they made their fortunes at a boisterous debate in front of a packed hall with a predominantly Latino audience.
Before moving on to the next vote-counting drama, let's reflect on what went right in Virginia and what policymakers and election administrators elsewhere can learn.
There has been plenty of pomp and circumstance, and even more long-windedness, as governors from coast to coast stepped to rostrums this month to deliver their annual State of the State addresses.
In the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal, lawmakers in Lansing called Thursday for legislation to ensure that sexual abuse complaints are never ignored again and two legislators sent a subpoena to MSU demanding records of complaints filed against Nassar over a three-year period.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it was withdrawing a provision of the Clean Air Act that requires a major source of pollution like a power plant to always be treated as a major source, even if it makes changes to reduce emissions.
The U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Early Warning System director announced today that the preliminary phase of its rollout will begin this year in California, Oregon and Washington.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has less than a week left in office before he resigns to take a job in President Donald Trump's administration.
The state joins a small but growing movement to curb the practice of incarcerating low-risk offenders who can't afford bail.
Cost of driving on I-66 in Northern Virginia one morning last week. That toll price -- which is set by demand and traffic volumes, and changes every six minutes -- was a record high.
Califorina Gov. Jerry Brown, in his final State of the State address on Thursday, defending the cost of the high-speed rail project, which was recently raised by $2.8 billion.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday issued an executive order intended to strengthen net neutrality in New York by prohibiting state government contracts with internet companies that do not honor the rules that were unraveled last month by the Federal Communications Commission.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
California and environmental and tribal groups sued the Trump administration in San Francisco federal court Wednesday seeking to enforce Obama administration regulations of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and gas wells on hundreds of millions of acres of federally managed lands.
The office of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and her own appointment calendar, dispute Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor's assertion that she has not talked to the governor in more than a year.
Gov. Paul LePage imposed a moratorium on new wind energy projects in western and coastal Maine on Wednesday while establishing a secretive commission to study how wind turbines impact the state's tourism economy.
Mayors across the country are counting on voters to act on their frustration with Washington and state capitals — by electing them instead.
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