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Lots of folks who used Sacramento city government titles and worked out of City Hall while doing Johnson’s dirty work in the NCBM fiasco were not employed by the city government. They were instead charter school advocates, funded by charter school ideologues, who kept their true allegiances and mission hidden.
Thirty states and the District of Columbia restrict investments by pensions and public entities in companies doing business in the country. Fifteen Republican governors, including four presidential candidates, last week sent a letter to Obama saying they would fight to keep their constraints if the administration lifts its nuclear-related sanctions.
The lawsuit alleges that the child's behavior created an "as-yet unquantified chilling effect on the otherwise 'hot' local real estate market" and that "people feel constrained in the marketability of their homes as this issue remains unresolved and the nuisance remains unabated."
Michigan donors have given more than $4 million to 2016 campaigns and super PACs. The biggest shares have gone to Bush, Christie and Walker.
Richard Greeno has made a donation of ice picks, razor blades, meat cleavers, a set of brass knuckles and a 1930s-era Tommy gun with a violin carrying case.
But nationally, the poverty rate was 14.8 percent last year, meaning 46.7 million people lived in poverty—as many people as there have been the past four years.
In October .MIAMI will join New York (.nyc) and Las Vegas (.vegas) in creating a global Internet identity through which the city's businesses, communities and residents can identify themselves.
Attorney General Herbert Slatery says state law requires lawmakers' approval before the state may use any public funds, even if those funds are provided by the federal government.
At least 80 injured state workers in the past decade have been taken to court by Texas' Office of Risk Management after being awarded compensation from the state's Division of Workers' Compensation.
The state's suspended voter list will be cut significantly next month when a new rule takes effect.
Employees in Philadelphia City Hall's 311 call center were sent home Thursday after a bedbug was found in the office, city officials said.
The Virginia Board of Health voted Thursday evening to reverse hospital-style rules and building codes for abortion clinics, fulfilling a campaign promise of Gov. Terry McAuliffe and delivering a setback to abortion foes.
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Ohio Ballot Board crafted misleading language for the Nov. 3 marijuana-legalization constitutional amendment and ordered the board to redo it.
A federal judge in Baton Rouge denied Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's attempt to block Common Core nationally Wednesday (Sept. 16). Countering conservative arguments, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick wrote that Common Core is not a curriculum and that federal education laws don't infringe on states' rights.
Cautious Federal Reserve officials, spooked by a slowing Chinese economy and turbulent markets, delayed a long-awaited interest rate increase and, in the process, heightened the uncertainty engulfing financial and business communities worldwide.
A new study of the controversial but popular EB-5 program details the successes and challenges of foreign investment in America.
The Knight Foundation is launching its second search for innovative and unorthodox ideas for developing U.S. cities.
With homicides surging in some big cities, it's tempting to go back to locking up more people. But there's a better way.
Amid the review, the district spent more than $500,000 since July 1 on outside food and beverages, records show. That includes more than $135,500 to Alonti, roughly $74,000 to Dave & Buster's, nearly $65,700 to Panera Bread and more than $58,600 to Subway.
Public employers can't legally get rid of their employees as easy as Trump and his private-sector peers can. But there are ways to make it easier.
With the bill now on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk, the church’s ability to affect the outcome of legislation is again being put to the test.
The attorneys for both the Ketchikan Gateway Borough and the state of Alaska relied on differing interpretations of the Alaska Constitution in asserting or denying if the state violates constitutional provisions when it requires that municipalities help pay for education
Despite objections from a teachers union and other activists, Renaissance charter school has moved from concept to reality in New Jersey's poorest city.
The assets to be counted if the new rule is applied include bank account balances, snowmobiles, boats, motorcycles, jet skis, all-terrain vehicles, recreational vehicles, campers and other valuable assets, according to a news release.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday announced plans to cut dozens of state agency fees by a combined $10 million a year, saying the changes would help families and businesses save money without negatively affecting public programs.
The Department of Health and Hospitals has notified Planned Parenthood Gulf States the organization is being kicked out of the state's Medicaid program again, this time because of a $4.3 million whistleblower settlement in Texas.
A lawyer in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's administration who was shot in the head by an errant bullet on Labor Day died Wednesday night after he was taken off life support, the family said.
Applause erupted in the the House chamber Wednesday as Republican leaders' goal to make Missouri the 26th "right to work" state died when members failed to vote to override Gov. Jay Nixon's veto.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Wednesday announced plans to spend as much as $186 million a year on a new education agenda spanning all grades -- a blueprint that extends beyond the maximum term of his mayoralty.
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