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Jeff Amyx, who owns Amyx Hardware & Roofing Supplies in Grainger County, Tenn., about an hour outside of Knoxville, added the sign because he says gay and lesbian couples are against his religion.
Chris Christie will host a series of town hall meetings in hopes of gaining ground on former Florida governor Jeb Bush, whose business-friendly politics overlap with his own and whose backing from the establishment has lifted him at this early juncture.
This will put the city’s minimum wage among the highest in the country.
California has wildfires every year. But with the drought, the fires started earlier this year.
American investors’ desire to avoid taxes, combined with the mutual fund industry’s practice of competing on the basis of yield and complacency about the practice of long-term borrowing to plug holes in budgets combined to make Puerto Rico insolvent.
A strong local economy, combined with high demand and not enough listings, pushed the average sales price up 11 percent.
Bill de Blasio said the governor had acted vindictively toward the city, citing cuts in state financing for public housing and what he called an abrupt ramp-up of state inspections of city homeless shelters.
State agencies routinely are told to meet energy-saving targets. Whether they do is often hard to determine.
Budget gridlock has been building since Bruce Rauner was elected governor in November. He campaigned on a pledge to cut spending, reform government and cut or hold the line on taxes. If he can't reach an agreement with the legislature, the government may shut down.
The Texas Workforce Commission is beefing up its data analytics tools by pulling data from other state agencies.
The tax limitation in Clark County has cost $119 million in lost revenue since 2009. That, combined with the recession meant it had to fire 1,500 municipal workers. It still can't afford to cover the daily cost of each inmate held in county jail.
In the fall, the justices will hear a direct challenge to the fees brought on behalf of Rebecca Friedrichs, a public school teacher in Orange County who objects to supporting the California Teachers Association.
The California governor signed legislation to require more children who enter school, or day care, to be vaccinated against diseases including measles and whooping cough.
Same-sex couples who want to marry may not get the warmest greeting in Minnehaha County.
A new report assesses disparities across neighborhoods within each region. See how different areas compare.
The city's revised 2024 Olympics bid was criticized as incomplete, particularly because it lacked some important financial details.
Florida legislators voted not to extend the depleted state film-and-entertainment tax incentive that has run out of funds with a requested $10-$20 million.
The city considers itself "water independent," and officials have balked at an order from the state to cut back water use by 28 percent.
The U.S. senator argues that the decision only applies to Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan and Kentucky.
South Carolina state Sen. Paul Thurmond (R) is the youngest son of the U.S. senator known for his opposition to desegregation.
Gov. Alejandro García Padilla wants to restructure Puerto Rico’s $73-billion debt under the U.S. bankruptcy code.
The Supreme Court refused on June 29 to allow Texas to enforce restrictions that would force 10 abortion clinics to close.
If the court sided with the plaintiff in the case and did away with racial preferences in higher education, that would reduce the number of black and Latino students at nearly selective colleges and graduate schools.
The New York Police Department will adopt language from a City Council bill aimed at criminalizing police use of the maneuver. The department, however, is still opposed to the actual bill.
The New York City Rent Guidelines Board voted on Monday night for a freeze on one-year leases on rent-stabilized apartments, an unprecedented move in its 46-year history.
A coalition of states including Texas has defeated the Environmental Protection Agency in a battle over major regulations on mercury, acid gases and other toxic metals emissions that spew from power plants.
Faculty at the state's universities, backed by national higher-education groups, say the Wisconsin governor is risking the quality and prestige of one of the country's leading state universities to fuel his presidential ambitions.
In small towns, suburbs and rural corners of the country, the homeless are often hidden, out of sight and mind, hard to reach and hard to help, say people who work with the homeless.
Most states have laws to protect bikers from cars, but they're hard to enforce. One city is testing a new device that makes it easier.
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