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About a month after being sworn in, Corpus Christi Mayor Dan McQueen announced his resignation in a Facebook post Wednesday afternoon, asserting that he could "no longer deal with such differing views and divisiveness," according to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
In a decision that could reshape hundreds of communities, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that municipalities must allow the development of affordable housing for poor and middle-class families whose needs were ignored for more than 16 years.
Hours before heading to Washington to witness Donald Trump become president, Miami-Dade's Republican mayor offered a blunt message to skeptics of climate change and the crisis it presents the coast.
Congressional Republicans are making an aggressive push to gut the District’s progressive policies, introducing bills in recent days to repeal the heavily Democratic city’s gun-control measures, undo its new law allowing physician-assisted suicide and ban the District from using local tax dollars to provide abortions for poor women.
Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency cast doubt on whether California should continue to have power to impose its own emission rules for cars and trucks, an authority the state has enjoyed for decades that is also the cornerstone of its efforts to fight global warming.
Maine's Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday that the NAACP should apologize to white America, making the comment just hours after he weighed in on the president-elect's Twitter beef with a black civil rights icon.
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker made a renewed call for state budget reforms to a new Legislature in his annual State of the State speech Wednesday night, telling lawmakers that "denial doesn't make the problem go away."
As a new study shows, cities are moving rapidly to harness it and put it to work to make better decisions.
In planning their finances for the year, governors are counting on health care to remain the same. But if it doesn't, states could suddenly be on the hook for billions of dollars.
See payroll expenses and numbers of government workers for each state.
Gov. Phil Bryant in his sixth State-of-the-State Address vowed that “blue lives matter” and taxpayers “are sovereign” and said continued improvements to the state’s troubled foster-care system “will be my top priority.”
Gov. Brian Sandoval delivered his fourth and final State of the State address Tuesday in Carson City, proposing a two-year $8.1 billion budget to fund workforce development, education, infrastructure and health care.
Against the backdrop of tight financial times, Missouri’s new governor delivered his first State of the State address Tuesday night, a rundown of GOP-led reforms he says will bring more jobs and business to the Show-Me state.
A day after recordings were released purporting to be Warren Mayor Jim Fouts denigrating black people and older women, a groundswell of calls for him to resign poured in from Warren residents at a protest outside Warren city hall, politicians who represent the city in county, state and federal government and regional leaders at an annual event in Detroit.
After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Texas Republicans suggested hopefully that their years-long practice of suing the federal government would finally be over.
Gov. Susana Martinez opened the last 60-day legislative session of her tenure on Tuesday by asking New Mexico lawmakers to embrace bipartisan solutions -- as they have in the past, she said -- to shore up the state's flagging budget and promote economic growth.
Indiana Gov. Eric J. Holcomb recommended a tax hike to fund roads and bridges, one of his new administration's five pillars he presented during his first State of the State speech Tuesday.
Things are good in Michigan, at least in the eyes of the Ottawa County legislative delegation.
Gov. Gina Raimondo called for new focus on manufacturing jobs Tuesday night in a State of the State address that centered on expanding opportunities for the state's middle class through job creation and job training.
In front of a small group of recovering addicts, Gov. Chris Christie signed an executive order on Tuesday declaring the opioid addiction problem in New Jersey a public health crisis.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy is making an offer to Democrats he hopes they won't refuse: If their states like Obamacare, they can keep it.
Even as the election outcome intensifies America's abortion debate, a comprehensive new survey finds the annual number of abortions in the U.S has dropped to well under 1 million, the lowest level since 1974.
Our analysis shows the agencies and states that have suffered the largest payroll cuts.
The report comes at a time when some federal policymakers want to end the program and while states and localities are launching similar initiatives of their own.
Democrats are preparing to fight the new administration's policies like Trump's pick to lead the EPA fought Obama's: with lawsuit after lawsuit. But can Democratic AGs make a difference with their diminished numbers?
Credit rating agency Moody's has reached a settlement with attorneys general in 20 states, including Connecticut, and the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations it misled investors when it issued positive ratings for shaky mortgage-backed securities in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis.
As the private sector has shown, it's a way to produce effective management and efficiency across a complex enterprise.
There are a couple of major reasons that the frustration is likely to continue for revenue estimators and policymakers.
Gov. Eric Greitens cut $146 million from the state budget Monday in response to a lingering slowdown in state revenue.
Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation into law Monday requiring schools and day cares to test for lead in drinking water sources, though several local schools have already conducted testing in recent years and might be compliant under the new rules.
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