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Key GOP-held attorneys general seats are becoming more competitive, paving the way for Democrats to possibly flip their balance in the states.
For decades, Kathy Hoell has struggled to vote. Poll workers have told the 62-year-old Nebraskan, who uses a powered wheelchair and has a brain injury that causes her to speak in a strained and raspy voice, that she isn’t smart enough to cast a ballot. They have led her to stairs she couldn’t climb and prevented her from using an accessible voting machine because they hadn’t powered it on.
After months of waiting, Kansas has a new governor.
State Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati said Wednesday he would not turn over any data requested by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the wake of the gerrymandering ruling that Republicans have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review.
Reviews of 'sentinel events' can shift the emphasis away from blame and toward risk mitigation and continuous improvement.
It was expected to be a perfunctory statehouse meeting — three lobbyists and a legislator discussing a proposal to educate Louisiana doctors about the price of drugs they prescribe.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, announced a new set of guidelines on Wednesday for how it will conduct arrests in courthouses.
San Francisco will retroactively apply California's marijuana-legalization laws to past criminal cases, District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday -- expunging or reducing misdemeanor and felony convictions going back decades.
Mayor Megan Barry said Wednesday she had an extramarital affair with the police officer in charge of her security detail, an extraordinary admission that rocks the popular Nashville mayor's first term.
A new study, done in Los Angeles, suggests that higher car ownership is actually most to blame.
Adding a warning to false accusers in the state Senate's newly revised anti-sexual harassment policy is an example of "the type of intimidation" that has kept harassment victims from coming forward.
Time that a local Florida commissioner was illegally registered to vote because he left off a 25-year-old cocaine conviction in Tennessee from his registration form. The felony makes him ineligible to vote in Florida, but that could change when voters in the state decide this November whether ex-felons should be allowed to vote. In the meantime, the commissioner was fired.
Tweet from Nebraska state Sen. Adam Morfeld, a Democrat, in response to President Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday in which he urged Congress to empower cabinet heads to "reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people."
Ten states have special legislative elections this month -- several because politicians facing allegations have either left office or committed suicide.
Politicians from both political parties reacted angrily to news of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's plan to end shipment of emergency food and water supplies to storm-battered Puerto Rico. On Tuesday, several lawmakers called on the agency to reverse its decision.
Republican Mae Beavers said Tuesday on Facebook she is suspending her campaign for Tennessee governor after reporting earlier in the day she raised just $163,947 during the last six months for her statewide bid and had about the same amount remaining in cash.
Pointing to economic stagnation and a culture of official corruption, state Senate Republican Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco on Tuesday announced his bid to seek the Republican nomination for governor.
The Nevada board that regulates gambling announced Tuesday that it was opening an investigation into sweeping claims of sexual misconduct by casino mogul Steve Wynn.
Virginia House Speaker Kirk Cox says talking about a work requirement for existing Medicaid recipients is a precondition for any expansion of health care coverage for low income Virginians.
Gov. Greg Abbott is in the process of replacing two top officials at the scandal-plagued juvenile justice agency that is still adjusting to a new executive director who took the helm last month.
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.
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