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After a deluge of up to 16 inches in some places, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a disaster declaration for nine surrounding counties.
The governor talks about what it's like to juggle chemotherapy with the business of running a state.
The American Independent Party is the state's third-largest political party. But a new investigation suggests many voters may have registered with the ultraconservative group by mistake.
Indianapolis' longtime mayor worked hard at crafting a big idea for his city, and it paid off handsomely.
Assisted living facilities have become more popular in recent years, but abundant closures and lax state regulations have led to more calls for new regulations.
A backlash against monied interests in politics that has buoyed the White House bids of Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is reverberating far beyond this year’s presidential race. The huge sums swamping campaigns have prompted voters to appeal to city halls and state capitols, hoping to curb the influence of wealthy donors in their communities.
Like some other states, Connecticut is facing a budget shortfall. And in part because of its shrinking finance sector and dependence on personal income taxes for revenue, state lawmakers, a majority of whom are Democrats, are finding themselves in a fiscal pickle.
The state health agency warned hospitals about the outbreak in January, but didn't inform the public until March.
Ten months into the state's ongoing budget stalemate, Illinois Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger said she plans to delay monthly paychecks for lawmakers and statewide officials. There isn't enough money to pay the state's bills, and other services should come first, she said.
The justices will weigh in on whether the president had proper authority to grant temporary work permits to about 4 million immigrants in the country illegally.
Hundreds of cheering families, legislators and patients watched Gov. Wolf sign a medical marijuana bill into law Sunday afternoon, many hopeful at last for relief from pain, seizures and other medical conditions.
Washington is the latest state considering the move, intended to discourage the use of carbon fuel like coal and oil by making them more expensive.
David Gowan has angered lawmakers from the right and left since assuming the post in January 2015, putting his own stamp on a legislative body that has garnered its share of attention for its far-right leanings on issues like immigration and abortion.
The large gubernatorial class of 2010 has until recently been scandal-free.
As efforts to evaluate housing programs illustrate, it's difficult to make precise comparisons. But it's worth the effort.
There's a lot that governments should be doing now to prepare for the next downturn.
Some failure along the way is inevitable. It's essential to plan for it.
The District of Columbia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and St. Paul begin working on developing new models for funding public infrastructure through the City Accelerator.
A first-in-the-nation bill would regulate loans made to small businesses by alternative lenders mostly found online.
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House Republicans told the leaders of the capital’s beleaguered subway system on Wednesday that they would not “bail you out,” soundly rejecting pleas for more federal funds to support it.
After years of cutbacks, many of the nation’s state parks are facing similar situations to Wyoming's, forced to cut programming, reduce hours of operations, and sometimes shut their gates. The shrinking budgets have prompted park officials to look for new sources of funding.
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Texas prison inmates shouldn't be allowed to have active social media accounts, even if friends or family on the outside actually run them, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has decided.
Facing a potentially bruising ballot fight over real estate development next year, Los Angeles' political leaders announced Wednesday that they will seek a sweeping update of the plans that govern the size and density of new buildings that go up in scores of neighborhoods.
New Jersey’s transportation funding system is in disarray, and neither the governor nor state legislators has a plan for how to plug a financing gap that tops $2 billion, administration officials and Assembly members said Wednesday at the first budget hearing of the season
A federal judge Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction barring Los Angeles police and sanitation officers from seizing and destroying homeless people's property without sufficient notice, and ordered the city to segregate and store impounded belongings where they can be recovered.
For the first time ever in Louisiana, a governor took formal action to protect transgender state workers and transgender people seeking state services from discrimination. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards issued an executive order Wednesday that protects state workers and state contractors from being fired, discriminated against or harassed based on their gender identity as well as their sexual orientation.
Missouri's treasurer says 529 programs are only one piece of the college puzzle.
New Mexico is holding on to more than $4 million in tax refunds from thousands of undocumented immigrants. They're suing the state to get their money back.
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