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Republicans and Democrats on Thursday will announce a plan for a Colorado presidential primary that would allow the state's unaffiliated voters to participate. More than one-third of Colorado voters — the largest bloc — are not affiliated with a party.
The Illinois Department of Revenue discovered that since 2014 it has doled out more than it should have to 6,500 local governments, thanks to an error in how it calculated the disbursements they receive each year to make up for their lack of power to tax businesses. Now it wants the $168 million back.
Gov. Sam Brownback plans to take more money from the state's highway fund, cut higher education spending and scrutinize other options in order o close a widening $290 million budget gap.
A statewide teachers group filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to block the state from implementing a controversial system that for the first time ties assessments of educators to student performance on standardized tests.
The state’s child welfare agency faces a $40 million budget shortfall, a critical shortage of good homes for foster children and overwhelming caseloads for staff, agency leaders told state lawmakers at a hearing on Wednesday.
Georgia's big plan to invest billions of dollars in new road projects may be about to get a giant thumbs up after Gov. Nathan Deal said preliminary results from an independent review show the effort could boost the state's economy and reduce traffic delays.
The U.S. Department of Justice has informed state officials that it is investigating Connecticut's "motor voter" program -- under which citizens can sign up to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles -- and has found "widespread noncompliance" with federal laws.
Los Angeles workers would be able to earn at least six paid sick days annually -- twice the state minimum -- under a proposed law that the city council backed.
Five former New Orleans police officers involved in the Danziger Bridge shootings after Hurricane Katrina, or the coverup that followed, pleaded guilty in federal court in New Orleans on Wednesday, taking reduced sentences and avoiding another trial after their previous convictions were thrown out.
By showing what's possible, a Tennessee child-services provider has built a national reputation.
Term limits were billed as a way to get more women to run for office. It hasn't worked out that way.
Parents and voters are coming around to the idea that pay and job security ought to be related to performance in the classroom.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
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States are divided on whether the U.S. Supreme Court will help or hurt them when it rules on whether the country can go forward in bestowing some legal status to undocumented immigrant parents.
The ruling by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals could shape the fight over House Bill 2 in North Carolina.
With three new confirmed cases of the disease, Miami-Dade is the hardest-hit county in the nation's hardest-hit state.
The new regulations may be the strictest in the nation.
The Michigan attorney general is set to announce felony and misdemeanor charges against as many as four people in state and local government connected to water contamination in Flint.
The special elections on Tuesday for the seats formerly held by Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver, the two state legislative leaders who were forced to depart Albany after being convicted on corruption charges last year, were supposed to be a test of how long a shadow corruption could cast on a race.
The insurance provider, one of the nation's largest, will only operate in "a handful of states" for 2017.
Citing concerns about potential voting irregularities during the most consequential presidential primary in years, the New York City comptroller said that his office would audit the city’s Board of Elections in part to determine if tens of thousands of Democratic voters were improperly removed from voter rolls.
As major oil-producing states face budget shortfalls, a new report calls on states to rethink how they’re collecting and spending severance tax revenues.
For more than two decades, the Missouri Department of Transportation has divvied up millions of federal dollars each year to cities and urban areas. This year it might keep the money for itself.
Lawmakers have already exceeded the voter-approved 90-day limit on legislative sessions, but the governor wants them to stay in Juneau to keep working to address the state's multibillion-dollar budget gap.
Dozens of categories of business transactions are not subject to the state sales tax in Louisiana, thanks to a special kind of tax break granted with increasing frequency in recent years by lawmakers. The tax breaks cost the state anywhere from $320 million to $920 million per year.
The state would be the first to file suit against Washington over the intake of refugees from Syria and elsewhere.
Until the last six months, the Democrat-controlled Legislature largely had kept its hands off the project, but a new proposed measure would set additional reporting requirements for the $64-billion bullet train project.
Snyder's actions followed developments last week, when the governor encouraged Flint residents to start using more filtered tap water instead of bottled water and was told by a state official that Flint residents wanted him to start drinking the tap water first.
Growers of fresh fruit and vegetables will be subject to food safety regulations for the first time under the federal Food Safety Modernization Act. States will start to decide this year if they will enforce the law or leave it to the federal government.
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