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Some roads in Montpelier, Vermont, have gotten a bit rumbly.
Pennsylvania's elected leaders bought a little more time as they work to bring state driver's license into compliance with national ID standards.
The City of Detroit is weighing in on a high-profile literacy lawsuit that accuses state officials of denying Detroit students access to literacy.
Ronna Romney McDaniel -- who as state Republican chair helped deliver Michigan to a Republican presidential nominee for the first time since 1988, and had to navigate some thorny family politics to do so -- became the Republicans' national party chair Thursday, with President-elect Donald Trump's backing.
A 23-year-old a legislative aide in Annapolis has been fired after The New York Times revealed he was the owner and operator of an infamous fake political news.
A federal judge Thursday issued a temporary injunction, blocking the state from ousting Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program for at least a month.
An innovative app is just one example of the power of public-private collaboration to save lives.
As we talk about rebuilding our public works, we need to remember that parks are as important to our cities as roads and bridges.
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It’s become a rare, bipartisan issue. But if the president's campaign rhetoric is any indication, the window of opportunity for change may have closed.
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.
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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.
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