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When state lawmakers return to the Capitol from their summer recess on Monday, awaiting them will be elements of a potential megadeal that could resolve three of the major issues they must tackle in the month that remains before adjourning for the year.
Despite higher-than-expected enrollment of Ohioans newly eligible for Medicaid, overall costs of the tax-funded health-insurance program in the most-recent fiscal year were nearly $2 billion below original estimates.
The state has decided not to move ahead with a plan to get the federal government to provide more Medicaid funding for an experimental program aimed at helping Grady Hospital and struggling rural hospitals.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is expected to endorse John Kasich for president this morning, a move that the Ohio governor's supporters say illustrates three key facts.
President Barack Obama's climate change plan will be challenged in in the courts this fall, when lawyers for at least 15 states join the coal and power industries to block the carbon-reducing rules before they take effect.
Far more than the public realizes, innovators are making extraordinary efforts in communities across America.
By making better use of the data they already have, governments could dramatically improve service delivery.
Hispanic babies born in rural enclaves are more likely to be impoverished than those in the city. And it’s harder for them to receive help from federal and state programs, such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Consistent health care also is hard to come by
Empowered consumers and data analytics are driving cities to re-think how they protect health and safety.
Months later, the finances of Gov. Walker's trips to Israel and Western Europe are still a mystery.
A revised standard will be largely unattainable, but its heavy costs will ripple through the economy.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the sheriff , whose Phoenix-area department has been aggressive in trying to deport immigrants in the country illegally, did not have standing to sue the Obama administration because he couldn’t show he was being directly harmed by the immigration policies.
Katrina hit Aug. 29, 2005, breaching canals in dozens of places and leaving 80 percent of the city flooded, survivors riding rooftops, and the dead in attics or tangled in tree branches. It's come back, but only so far.
Jon Husted said that the courts already had decided this issue, and that only the state has the authority to regulate oil and gas activity in Ohio.
The court agreed to a sped-up briefing cycle that will lead to oral arguments in November.
Leaders in both the state House and Senate said the only workable solution may be to toss out all proposed amendments and accept the staffers' base map, which had been unveiled last week as a starting point.
Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed into law a measure setting statewide standards for use of the cameras, expanding police officer training to include topics like use of force and requiring an independent investigation of all officer-involved deaths.
California has taken the most proactive stance in the nation in enforcing laws to ensure people with mental illnesses have fair and timely access to care. But even there, it’s proving difficult to ensure mental patients truly have equal access to treatment.
A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday struck down the state law banning "ballot selfies," calling the prohibition "a content-based restriction on speech that cannot survive strict scrutiny."
Prodded by a $100,000-a-day fine, Gov. Jay Inslee and legislative leaders plan to dive back into the school-spending dispute Monday after the latest state Supreme Court repudiation of Washington's chronic underfunding of public schools.
Michael B. Ross wanted to die. He'd wanted to die for years, but the state of Connecticut couldn't manage to kill him.
The undercover videos purporting to show officials of Planned Parenthood bargaining over the sale of fetal tissue have made the promise to defund the organization one of the most popular refrains on the Republican presidential campaign trail.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warned Alabama on Thursday that its cancellation of Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood could violate federal law.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is leading 16 other state attorneys general in a legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,accusing it of illegally invalidating the individual air quality protection plans in those states.
A rundown of the most important tax-related measures facing voters this November.
Every officer knows that things can quickly turn lethally dangerous. How can these situations be prevented?
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Parents who still refuse vaccination are required to sign a form in which they "acknowledge that I may be placing my child and others at risk of serious illness should he or she contract a disease that could have been prevented through proper vaccination."
The new standards adopted by the California Energy Commission would slash water flows by 20 percent on showerheads manufactured after next July 1. Flows would decrease an additional 10 percent on showerheads made after July 2018.
Seattle, Tacoma and Everett have banded together to manage dwindling water supplies.
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