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Businesses and governments are going cashless. Anti-poverty advocates say the change is problematic for low-income people, but they disagree on how to solve it.
What the Evaluators Saw: What the Cities Did, How They Did It, and Why It Matters
For the second year in a row, Gov. Tom Wolf will allow the state's budget to become law -- with no way to pay for it yet.
Aidan Long is a 13-year-old from Montana who has suffered multiple daily seizures since he was 4. The seizures defy medical cure, and some of them continue for weeks, requiring Aidan to be airlifted to children’s hospitals in Denver or Seattle, said his father, Ben Long. The medical bills to Medicaid and his private insurance have been enormous.
The Republican gubernatorial primary was just weeks away, and then-Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell had his sights set on securing the nomination.
President Donald Trump and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach still want troves of information about voters. Just not yet.
Gov. Christie on Monday lashed out at a constituent as a communist and called Hillary Clinton a "criminal" during his audition to replace a New York sports radio host, hours after a new poll affirmed his standing as the least popular governor in New Jersey history.
The federal judge overseeing reforms in the Oakland Police Department criticized city officials Monday for a "severely mishandled" investigation into officers who allegedly had sex with an underage girl, saying City Hall and police commanders appeared to be treating him as an "inconvenient bump" on the way to regaining full control of the force.
Maine Attorney General Janet Mills announced Monday that she would seek the Democratic Party's nomination for governor in 2018.
After three defendants fatally overdosed in a single week last year, it became clear that Buffalo's ordinary drug treatment court was no match for the heroin and painkiller crisis.
Threats made via email toward Vermont Democratic Party Chair Faisal Gill, who is believed to be the nation's first Muslim leader of a state party. The emails, sent by a Burlington resident, included racial and ethnic slurs, and a lewd cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
Candidates running for mayor of Seattle. Mayor Ed Murray was expected by many to win re-election until allegations of sexual abuse led him to drop out of the race.
Secretaries of state are concerned about not just the federal government's request for voter information but also the information they're not getting about election security breaches.
State election officials voiced doubt Saturday that adequate security measures can be adopted before 2018 elections to safeguard against the possibility of a foreign government interfering in U.S. elections.
A little-discussed provision in the Senate health care bill is designed to boost the number of hospital beds for psychiatric care, providing a long-sought victory for mental health advocates.
Drug companies asked a federal judge on Thursday to throw out Maryland's new prescription drug price gouging law, saying the state's first-in-the-nation measure is both unconstitutional and vague.
Gov. Jerry Brown sought Thursday to bolster his position as America's de facto climate czar, urging the world to defy President Trump and join him in San Francisco next year for a "climate action summit."
The Trump administration has picked the head of the Georgia Department of Public Health to run the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
With a heat wave continuing to bake California and the rest of the West, wildfires forced nearly 8,000 people to dash for safety Sunday as flames destroyed homes and threatened thousands of structures across the state.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who made a career of promoting local control of education, has signaled a surprisingly hard-line approach to carrying out an expansive new federal education law, issuing critical feedback that has rattled state school chiefs and conservative education experts alike.
As cities push to become more environmentally friendly, transportation planners are being asked to consider how both traffic and water flows through their streets.
“Reduce, reuse, recycle” is a life that many try to live, yet struggle to define.
Hiring ex-addicts is a key part of Kentucky's strategy for combating the opioid epidemic and its impact on families.
Mayor Ryan Stovall has no regrets.
Blair Milo is used to being underestimated because of her age and gender. She doesn't let it stop her from running a city.
Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage, complaining about the media for reporting that he was planning to leave the state when the government was shut down last week. LePage left lawmakers voicemails that said he was "heading out of town" -- but the governor later said he was lying in order to get lawmakers to call him back sooner.
The new minimum wage in St. Louis, as of Aug. 28, which will be down from $10. The city increased it to $10 in 2015, but a new state law makes it illegal for municipalities in Missouri to set their own minimum wage.
Erwin, Tenn., was struggling. Then its mayor did something many public officials usually don't: She listened to young people.
After long fighting Texas' voter ID law for discriminating against Latino and African American voters, the U.S. Department of Justice declared the latest revision of the controversial state law now satisfies President Donald Trump's administration, according a filing in federal court Wednesday.
Aiming to make them more difficult to get, many states are considering strengthening their laws. There's evidence about what makes for a good one.
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