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Texas officials are escalating their opposition to Syrian refugees with a new message aimed specifically at resettlement groups that have indicated they will accept people fleeing the war-torn country: change your mind or risk getting sued by the state.
Juneau Mayor Greg Fisk was found dead at his home in Juneau Monday, police said.
The stress of a threatened Luzerne County government shutdown was lifted Monday, spreading a sense of jubilation throughout the courthouse.
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted Monday of federal corruption charges, ending the legendary Albany power broker's political career in disgrace and giving Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara a signal victory in his crusade to clean up the Capitol.
But particularly in statewide executive office positions, which just 10 black women in nine states have ever held, according to a new report.
Change in government requires empowering and energizing its employees.
California lawmakers are staring down a $1.1 billion hole in next year’s health budget after failing to come up with a way to replace the state’s “managed care organization tax” on health insurance plans that serve Medi-Cal managed care recipients.
Seven months ago, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby shocked the nation by announcing a range of criminal charges against six police officers in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray.
California and New York both beefed up security.
Hallie Turner, the 13-year-old girl who took North Carolina to court over climate change, received disappointing news the day before Thanksgiving.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will stump in New Hampshire today in an effort to build on the momentum of his endorsement by the New Hampshire Union Leader over the weekend.
The federal government on Wednesday informed refugee resettlement agencies in Texas and across the country that states do not have the authority to refuse to accept Syrians.
As cities -- and slums -- grow around the world, governments are going to need to step up their game.
As transit agencies move toward income-based discounts, they still need to keep larger issues in mind.
Despite what the PC police may think, fuzzy notions of social inequity don't have much of a role in keeping the workplace safe.
Reflecting a broader trend of merging health care with other services, a city in California recently opened a clinic next to a firehouse.
A procedural game of chess continued Tuesday between the White House and Texas over the timing of a possible U.S. Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's controversial immigration plan that would shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Just months after he was hired to resolve Opa-locka's deepening financial crisis, City Manager Steve Shiver was fired from his job by commissioners in yet another tumultuous development in a city millions of dollars in debt.
In a big win for Chattanooga Mayor Andrew Berke's administration, a federal court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by four retired police officers and firefighters that challenged the city's decision to reduce the cost-of-living adjustments to their pensions.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel released a video of an African-American teen being fatally shot by a white police officer Tuesday just hours after authorities charged the veteran cop with murder, all the while trying to head off violent protests city officials feared might result from the images of the teen twisting and falling as he is riddled with bullets.
Maryland’s highest court has approved sweeping changes that will drastically change how companies purchase the rights to legal settlement payouts, effectively remaking how a controversial industry does business with some of the state’s poorest and most vulnerable residents.
The state Department of Health and Human Services is once again seeking to ban food stamp recipients from using their benefits to purchase candy and soda.
Cancer researchers say there has been a substantial increase in women under the age of 26 who have received a diagnosis of early-stage cervical cancer, a pattern that they say is most likely an effect of the Affordable Care Act.
Most Southern states have refused for years to make more people eligible for government health care. But a few governors may change that.
Since 1990, CalPERS nation's largest public pension system, has paid out $3.4 billion in performance fees to its private equity managers since while the controversial sector generated $24.2 billion in profits for state retirees.
s Kentucky Gov. Steven L. Beshear prepares to leave office, he is attempting to leave his mark on an issue that has made his state an outlier.
The effectiveness of subsidies is hard to measure. A new rule will make it easier, but there's still a lot of information that governments aren't required to share about business deals.
A new study indicates that moving people into better public housing might result in reduced depressive symptoms, economic disadvantage, perceived community violence, and social disorder.
Eleven people, including a Berkeley, Calif., city employee, several UC Berkeley students, a seminary student and a freelance photojournalist, are seeking damages, saying police violated their First Amendment rights and injured them during the Dec. 6 protest.
Given the chance to move away from Austin following the Nov. 3 passage of Proposition 3, which repealed the state capital residency requirement in the Texas Constitution for certain statewide elected officials, reps for four of the five eligible said they would continue to live near the Capitol Complex.
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