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There are no crystal balls, yet some judges expect planners and policymakers to predict the future anyway.
Florida state Rep. Rep. David Richardson, who uses a provision in state law that lets lawmakers inspect prisons and has found many inmates without toilet paper. He has complained to the state but has yet to see a change in policy.
Employees left in the West Virginia Division of Tobacco Prevention after the state budget eliminated its funding. The sole survivor is operating on federal grants and what's left of last year's budget.
The Ohio State Fair ride that ejected passengers, killing one and injuring seven, had been cleared by state inspectors to operate, officials said Wednesday night.
When Taylor Merendo moved to Bloomington, Ind., nearly two years ago, fleeing an abusive marriage, she needed help.
Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed on Tuesday a tax cut recently approved by the Michigan Legislature, saying the measure would put too much strain on the state's budget.
As more TV and film productions make their home in Georgia, California and elsewhere outside the Sunshine State, another local government is hoping to make up a part of the nearly $300 million in incentives that Florida once offered to the industry.
President Donald Trump has appointed Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to an ambassadorship, a little more than a month after the Kansas governor saw his signature tax policy dismantled by the state's Legislature.
In lawsuits involving high-profile partisan issues, some state AGs choose to sit out.
Critics say laws that treat attacks against police officers as a hate crime are unnecessary and hard to enforce.
It's now common, even for lower-paying jobs, to make employees pledge their loyalty to companies. Some states are stepping in to stop the corporate abuse.
Some negotiations have become so heated that legislatures have taken their fight to the courts.
Minneapolis police officers must turn on their body cameras when responding to any call, traffic stop or self-initiated activity, Acting Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced Wednesday, in a key change to city policy in the wake of Justine Damond's shooting death.
Akron child killer Ronald Phillips was put to death Wednesday, the first execution carried out in Ohio in more than three years.
The technology could signal the beginning of the end of parking tickets and other revenue sources. Some cities' budgets could take a big hit.
Message on a billboard that the Washington state Department of Health used in an attempt to deter Hispanic teens from using marijuana. After stirring some controversy on social media, the ad is being taken down.
Mayors surveyed by Politico who would support their state switching to a single-payer health-care system.
The Texas Supreme Court justice is witty and approachable, and he's huge on Twitter. He's also one of the most influential conservative jurists in the country right now.
Health policy experts say the move could further destabilize the market.
Congress jeopardized the future of state plans to help private employees save for retirement. States don't seem to care.
After leading the creation of the nation's first legal marijuana market in Colorado, Andrew Freedman took the lessons he learned and made a business out of helping states regulate the drug.
The radical idea of a universal basic income is far from new, but it's finally being tested around the world -- even in America.
An appeals court on Tuesday upheld a federal judge here who refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the city of Ferguson and police related to the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
Two California governors -- one a Republican, the other a Democrat -- joined together Tuesday to celebrate the extension of one of the state's key global warming programs and slam the federal government for abandoning the climate fight.
After revenues came in $75 million lower than projected, the state Tuesday announced severe cuts that will deeply affect the way government serves Montanans, including lost jobs and reduced or terminated programs.
Mayor Toni Harp said they came mostly from immigrant residents. It wasn't hard to pinpoint their worries: Trump had vowed to deport undocumented immigrants and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Months later, Trump has mostly kept his word on enforcing immigration law, shedding Obama-era deferment policies that once focused on undocumented immigrants with criminal records. Now, undocumented immigrants who have no criminal history are being monitored and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Trump administration strengthened its crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities Tuesday, announcing a new policy that says local governments will lose some federal grants if they do not give advance notice when illegal immigrants are about to be released from custody and give immigration agents access to local jails.
A Texas version of a North Carolina-style "bathroom bill" targeting transgender people has again passed the state Senate, on Tuesday, July 25.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked a District of Columbia law that makes it difficult for gun owners to get concealed carry permits by requiring them to show that they have a good reason to carry a weapon.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered state agencies to make voter registration forms available to the public and offer assistance in filling them out in an effort to boost participation in elections.
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