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Gov. Bill Haslam pitches about $500 million in new state spending in his State of the State address.
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Amount Washington, D.C., will spend at this year's South by Southwest -- a film, technology and music festival in Austin, Texas -- which is almost three times what the city spent to attend the event in 2014.
Michael Eglinski, city auditor of Lawrence, Kansas.
Wireless-connected devices offer financial benefits for local governments, but they come at a price.
Number of people, which is less than one half of one percent, in Tennessee who tested positive for drug use after the state began drug testing welfare applicants.
The state House is considering a proposal to create a new state office, to ensure the governor wouldn't automatically be replaced by the secretary of state if he dies, quits or is forcibly removed from office.
Despite Emanuel's criticism of Daley's impact on Chicago finances, he got his predecessor's endorsement.
Maine lawmaker Thomas Longstaff wants to dying patients the right to try experimental drugs.
The Arkansas governor wants to find funds for additional prison space. His proposed budget includes more money for drug treatment courts, including veterans’ drug treatment courts; new programs to help people re-enter society; and raising the reimbursement rate to county jails housing state prisoners.
Beyond "repeal and replace," people at the National Health Policy Conference pitched improvements to the Affordable Care Act.
With about 400,000 untested rape kits nationwide, officials at the federal, state and local levels are devoting new attention and money to reducing the backlog.
Moving beyond rhetoric, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday issued an executive order that aims at absolving state workers who don't want to join a union from paying fees that support collective bargaining.
An Auburn lawmaker is proposing a bill to eliminate Maine’s cash bail system and replace it with a risk assessment model that would allow low-risk individuals to be released until their criminal charges are resolved.
The D.C. Council abandoned plans to hold a hearing on how to tax and regulate marijuana Monday after the District’s new attorney general warned that it could subject city lawmakers and their staff members to fines and even jail time.
For legal commentators both for and against same-sex marriage -- and, apparently, for two of the Supreme Court's most conservative justices -- the court's refusal Monday to block same-sex marriages in Alabama foreshadowed a likely ruling within months to extend marriage rights to gays and lesbians nationwide.
Medicaid expansion was once again rejected by the Wyoming Legislature on Friday.
Gov. Wolf on Monday said he is dismantling his predecessor's alternative to Medicaid expansion and will move forward with the transition to traditional Medicaid insurance coverage for hundreds of thousands of low-income Pennsylvanians.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Monday that she has opened an investigation into the allegations of public corruption against Gov. John Kitzhaber and Cylvia Hayes.
Share of Indianapolis Public School students disciplined with out-of-school suspensions last year, which is one of the highest rates in America.
Fueled by low gas prices and deteriorating roads, at least a dozen states -- Democrat and Republican -- are considering increasing gas taxes this year.
Ernestine Chasing Hawk, on the Oneida Indian Nation's decision to open a casino in Chittenango, N.Y., the hometown of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, and call it Yellow Brick Road Casino. The Oneida Nation is leading a campaign to change the name of the Washington Redskins, deeming it offensive, though in the course of his career, Baum wrote several articles urging the total annihilation of American Indians.
Cassie Lauterette of Loudoun County, Va. Despite being one of the most affluent communities in the United States, it's facing a school budget shortage and has proposed offering full-day kindergarten only by charging parents a fee.
Opponents of the latest bill argue that there’s little evidence that recipients of welfare use their cash assistance to purchase drugs, and that drug testing won't help families in need.
His career as a city, state, and federal prosecutor pitted him against New York mobsters and politicians such as former Pennsylvania State Sen. Henry J. "Buddy" Cianfrani.
Using "prior learning assessment," it's Pennsylvania's first effort to standardize the process of giving credit for life, and comes as other states are looking at their systems.
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