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A congressional bill that aims to encourage drug breakthroughs leaves unanswered the question of who will foot the bill for medical miracles.
The Cannabis Corner is the only (but probably not the last) place where public workers are paid to sell pot.
The role of attorney general in states has evolved from policy enforcer to policy creator.
After Los Angeles banned the expansion of fast-food places in some parts, obesity actually increased.
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said Bruce Rauner lacked standing to challenge public unions, in his case seeking to prevent non-union public employees from paying a share of collective bargaining costs, because he had "no personal interest at stake."
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Lenny Curry, the energetic Jacksonville businessman-turned chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, defeated Mayor Alvin Brown Tuesday, only the second time in recent history a sitting mayor has lost re-election.
Saying Texas needs to avoid a “patchwork of local regulations” that threaten oil and gas production, Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed legislation that would pre-empt local efforts to regulate a wide variety of drilling-related activities.
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday backed a plan to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 per hour, joining a trend sweeping cities across the country as elected leaders seek to boost stagnating pay for workers on the lowest rungs of the socio-economic ladder.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal issued an order that protects people who believe that gays shouldn’t marry, plunging the state into the debate weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether banning same-sex weddings is constitutional.
Voters in Colorado Springs have elected former state Attorney General John Suthers in the city’s runoff mayoral election.
Gov. Mike Pence is putting aside, for now, any dreams of national office, and will announce next month he is running in 2016 for a second four-year term as Indiana's chief executive.
The U.S. House voted to keep federal money flowing for highways and mass-transit programs for two more months, through the end of July.
Harry Relkin, New Mexico's land office counsel, referring to the state's effort to build a fabricated town filled with schools, roads, airports and malls -- but no residents -- for city planning purposes. "The Center for Innovation, Testing, and Evaluation" will be the largest scale testing center on Earth.
Political activist Zack Kopplin, who is also a family friend of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. In 2008, Jindal signed a bill that allows science teachers to include creationism in their lessons.
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New CIOs need to learn the importance of marketing technology to leadership.
Number of states where someone earning the state minimum wage can afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment.
It’s infrastructure, yet pensions get more of policymakers' attention.
And without proof of its value, cash-strapped states are increasingly cutting training budgets.
Some critics told the panel Monday that a proposal to allow concealed handgun license holders to openly carry the firearms would have made the Waco shooting worse. But the panel approved the bill and sent it to the full Senate, where it is likely to have enough votes to pass.
It's unclear if Gov. Sam Brownback's e-mails might be subject to the open records act.
The New Jersey governor staked out the most hawkish position of all the would-be candidates for the presidency in a speech he made in New Hampshire.
Paul LePage is proposing a bill to require any applicant to the TANF program -- regardless of whether they have any kind of criminal record related to drugs -- to undergo a written, 93-question screening test and then, depending on the results, a urine test.
Americans who support physician-assisted suicide or "aid-in-dying" for terminally ill people -- a practice legal in only a few states.
Portion of cities in Washington state that have banned marijuana shops since the substance was legalized there in 2012.
Increase in revenue from U.S. cigarette sales since 2004, despite a 16 percent decline in smoking during the same period.
Rachel Gilmer, associate director at the African American Policy Forum, criticizing the Obama administration's My Brother’s Keeper program for excluding young women.
The court deemed Maryland's local tax on out-of-state income unconstitutional, meaning municipalities will have to pay millions in tax refunds.
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