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Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott, who criticizes the city's liberal policies -- which are frequently at odds with the state -- for being government overreach. He called a special session in which lawmakers will consider bills that would limit municipalities' power.
States where the opioid crisis has been declared a public health emergency. They are: Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts and Virginia.
Lawmakers rolled back Gov. Sam Brownback’s signature tax policy over his objections Tuesday night, forcing into law tax increases to fix a budget shortfall and provide more money for schools.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency, an effort to stem the state’s spiraling death toll from overdoses of prescription painkillers and heroin. The Republican governor’s declaration follows similar announcements in at least five other states: Alaska, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts and Virginia.
Hawaii has passed a law to document sea level rise and set strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The bill signed by Gov. David Ige Tuesday aligns the state's goals with the Paris climate accord.
City leaders on Tuesday saw much of Gov. Greg Abbott's call for a special session as part of a continuing attack on Austin that rose from angry rhetoric about the left-leaning city to an all-out "war on cities," as Austin Mayor Steve Adler put it Tuesday.
The Trump administration will extend by one year a deadline for states to comply with a major Obama-era regulation on emissions of a smog-causing pollutant that spews from tailpipes and smokestacks.
California Governor Jerry Brown met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday as part of a trip to push the US state's commitment to climate action.
Phil Murphy, the wealthy former ambassador who plowed $16 million on his own money into his campaign, brushed aside his five Democratic rivals and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno prevailed after a tougher-than-expected challenge from a three-term assemblyman Tuesday night as they claimed their party's nominations for New Jersey governor.
Commute to work for a growing share of Americans. From 2010 to 2015, more people became so-called super commuters in 40 states.
Metro areas around the country have been adding jobs. But some regional economies have seen especially sharp gains in recent months.
Advertisement that ran in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday and is signed by many of the city's elected officials, including the mayor, a Congressman and state legislators. In the president's speech to announce that he's withdrawing the United States from the global agreement to address climate change, he said it's because he was "elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris."
The number of commuters who travel 90 minutes or more to get to work increased sharply between 2010 and 2015.
Arresting or denying someone services based on their immigration status will be against the law in Columbus.
Nevada Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed legislation that will require new school buses to be equipped with seat belts.
Oakland police officers tend to speak less respectfully to black people than to white people during traffic stops, using language in these everyday interactions that can erode community faith in the police.
Any insurers that leave New York's health insurance exchange will be banned from participating in the state's Medicaid program or contracting with any state agencies under regulations Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from North Carolina lawmakers to review a lower court's ruling that struck down the 2011 state legislative districts, but sent the case back for reconsideration of whether elections should be held in 2017 as the lower court ordered.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on his new podcast called "Chicago Stories," talking about the overwhelming variety of craft beer in the city with his first guests: local brewers.
The new mayor of Jackson, Miss., may offer striking evidence of a nationwide trend.
Estimated bed bugs in a cup that a citizen slammed on the counter in a municipal office in Augusta, Maine, after being told he didn't qualify for assistance. His reaction released the bugs and closed the city offices for extermination.
Joining the ranks of comedians, radio hosts and millennials with microphones, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has started a podcast.
Convening a second year in Augusta, the state Republican party on Saturday elected John Watson, a lobbyist who helped turn Georgia red, as new chairman of the state party.
A man angered that he didn't qualify for assistance took his revenge, slamming a cup on the counter of a municipal office and releasing an estimated 100 bedbugs, reports say.
Gov. Chris Christie has signed Executive Order No. 225, which directs New Jersey's chief technology officer to oversee the centralization of IT for more than 70 executive branch agencies.
The fatal stabbing of two good Samaritans who intervened when a man on a commuter train shouted slurs at two women — both African-American, one in Muslim dress — has reawakened bitter memories of this state’s past and revived a debate over what people here call the “two Oregons,” where islands of tolerance abut places awash in frustration and rage.
Democrat Stacey Abrams entered the campaign for Georgia governor on Saturday with a pledge to expand pre-kindergarten programs and make technical college education free, promising she’d bring a “bold and ambitious approach” to state government that will invigorate the economy.
Politicians sometimes demand it, but it has nothing to do with ability. It doesn't serve them or the governments they run.
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new voter ID bill into law Thursday, loosening identification requirements from a 2011 law that a federal judge said was enacted by Republicans to intentionally discriminate against minority voters, who tend to vote for Democrats.
Autonomous-vehicle technology is about to bring big changes to the way our freight moves. It can't come soon enough.
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