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Mayors and governors looking for action from Washington shouldn't buy into the myth that second-term presidents are powerless.
Interim DeKalb County CEO Lee May calls the special investigative report he ordered “salacious” and angrily denies wrongdoing.
Since its inception 50 years ago, Medicaid has become one of the nation's biggest government programs. But most states don't treat it as such.
After Alabama put into effect a tougher voter ID law, the state shuttered 31 driver's license offices due to a budget crisis. The closures will cut off access to one of the few types of IDs accepted.
While most California school districts offer sexual education courses, participation is currently voluntary. Under the new mandate students can only avoid the classes with parental consent. It will also update instruction relating to HIV and require educators talk about a range of gender identities.
Civic innovation and investment will undoubtedly bring challenges and criticisms, but leaders are wise to stay the course.
The fund will join OhioCheckbook.com, a state website designed to promote financial transparency.
The New Jersey governor opposes federal legislation that would require New Jersey to recognize carry permits from other states, but said he would consider a bill to change New Jersey’s “illogical” law to recognize permits from other states if the Democrats who control the Legislature send him one.
Jeffery Beasley, inspector general of Florida's Department of Corrections, said Thursday that he is stepping down to assume another role at the embattled agency.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, already facing a host of criminal charges for allegedly leaking confidential information and later lying about it to a grand jury, was charged Thursday with a new felony count of perjury.
In one of the deadliest of a series of school shootings that have become violently familiar across the U.S., a gunman opened fire at a community college in southwestern Oregon on Thursday morning, killing at least 10 people and injuring at least seven more before dying in an exchange of gunfire with police.
Chicago Public Schools lowered four years of inflated high school graduation rates to account for a higher-than-advertised dropout rate, another blow to a district beset by financial and professional turmoil.
The hits began early and kept on coming Wednesday for a new plan from Republican state legislators to place an indefinite freeze on Ohio's clean-energy standards, with the governor and many others saying the proposal is a bad idea.
Volkswagen is about to learn just what it means to mess with Texas. Harris County, home to Houston, is suing the car giant for more than $100 million in what officials are calling the “first” local government suit against VW following its emissions scandal. Here’s county attorney Vince Ryan, via a press release from his office.
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency adopted a stricter smog limit Thursday that will force states to reduce emissions over the next decade, improving respiratory health for millions of people through pollution controls that will cost industry billions of dollars.
Giving up on the gridlock at the federal and state levels, progressives are turning their attention to local ballots to get their ideas passed. But policies that sell well in cities won't always work statewide.
The bill, which failed, would have banned local governments from regulating employment and housing practices.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The state's 5,000 free overdose prevention kits will include instructions on how to use Narcan nasal spray to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose as well as steps to help victims survive until emergency medical responders arrive.
States are clamping down on “price optimization,” the practice of tying insurance rates to policyholders’ tolerance of price increases.
The meaning has evolved, but actions need to evolve as well.
The execution of convicted murderer Richard Glossip has been stayed by Gov. Mary Fallin, who said in a news release the state received a drug for his execution it is not authorized to use.
An Iowa judge upheld a state law that disqualifies felons from voting but said the state Supreme Court needs to sort out the confusion it caused last year when it ruled not all felons are automatically disenfranchised.
If zombies attack Gov. Sam Brownback plans on escaping Topeka and heading to his parents' farm in Parker for safety.
Starting Thursday, it's legal to buy marijuana in Oregon.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson, the first governor to travel to Cuba since the reopening of diplomatic relations with the U.S., said Tuesday that his trip to the country is intended to put Arkansas in the "top tier" for trade.
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Obama administration’s first major regulations on hydraulic fracturing.
Municipal finances look stable on paper, but cities still struggle with slow revenue growth and rising costs, according to a new report.
Texas used to force many elected officials to live in the state's capital city. Voters repealed that rule Tuesday.
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