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Because the state is so big, the impact of a change in the law is likely to matter significantly for the rest of the nation.
After stumbling off the stage during his last presidential run and being indicted on criminal charges, Texas’ longest-serving and possibly most influential governor wants to redeem his political career.
Portion of recently hired New York City correction officers whose applications should have disqualified them.
The decrease in the number of Washington, D.C., businesses with five to nine employees between 1998 and 2012. During that time, D.C.'s increase in big retailers outpaced the nation's by 30 percent.
A sign posted by Latosha Jackson-Martin outside her father's 50-year-old hair salon in Washington, D.C.'s Bloomingdale neighborhood, where rent in the now-trendy area has skyrocketed. "I can't afford to pay double the rent like other folks," she said.
Letter from the Utah Division of Motor Vehicles to Vietnam veteran Arnold Breitenbach, who wanted the license plate CIB-69 because he earned a Purple Heart in 1969. Utah, however, bans the number because of sexual connotations.
Number of people in southeastern Indiana who have tested positive for HIV in the state's largest-ever outbreak of the virus among intravenous drug users.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents finalized tuition increases for nine campuses on Friday, and pushed back against a key lawmaker who blasted UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank for proposing a 35% tuition increase over four years for nonresident undergraduates.
Gov. Jerry Brown has billed his $25 billion plan to build two massive tunnels under the Delta as a way to not just make it easier to move water from north to south, but also increase the reliability of water supplies and bring back salmon and other endangered species.
The Lenape tribe got a better deal on the sale of Manhattan island than New York City’s pension funds have been getting from Wall Street, according to a new analysis by the city comptroller’s office.
The State of New Jersey tracks hundreds of workers, gathering data from their cellphones about when they clock in, where they are at any given moment, what route they take to get there, how fast they drive, and whether they make unauthorized stops.
As they scramble to balance the state budget, N.C. lawmakers could use a little help from Koren Robinson.
A reserve sheriff's deputy accidentally shot an unarmed man with a gun instead of a Taser, and Oklahoma law enforcement officials berated the man as he lay dying on the ground, according to body-camera footage released this weekend.
Poor people are unhealthier not only because of their lower incomes, but also as a result of where they live.
Rosy, unrealistic scenarios just cause trouble down the road. It's far better for managers not to deceive their leaders -- or themselves.
New reporting requirements are going to make many pensions look worse off -- even if they're not. Public officials need to be ready to talk about that.
Transit agencies and companies have tried raising toll prices at peak times, but even that's not keeping drivers away, so they're looking for new ways to reduce congestion.
Statement from the Federal Transit
Administration, explaining how and why Massachusetts' troubled transit agency forfeited
millions in unused federal money over the past decade. Meanwhile, the agency has blamed its problems on a lack of funding.
Police across the country are being outfitted with body cameras, but managing all the hours of footage comes at a price and poses unintended consequences.
The New Jersey governor wanted to take $160 million out of trust funds to build low-cost housing units for poor, disabled and elderly people.
The lost funds would have helped subsidize various new construction projects.
Former Rep. Tyrone Brooks Jr. says he misappropriated almost $1 million in charitable funds.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt is asking the state Supreme Court to strike down the ballot initiative Wichita voters passed Tuesday to reduce penalties for marijuana possession.
To many black residents, the overt hatred and segregation that ruled this place during the Jim Crow era has morphed into something more insidious: the routine traffic stop.
Voters on Tuesday approved letting state Supreme Court justices choose who will lead them -- a change to a 126-year-old system that is likely to result in the demotion of Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson.
A Republican-backed effort to legalize marijuana for limited medicinal purposes in Tennessee is officially dead for the year.
Washington was one of two states nationwide in which the number of people buying health insurance through government-run exchanges went down in the second round of open enrollment, which ended in February.
Lincoln Chafee on Thursday became the second Republican-turned-Democrat to offer himself as an alternative to all-but declared presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Schoogle, a new app that monitors everything from tablets to trombones, can help districts save time and money.
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