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Municipalities' increasing reliance on bank deals, which governments can legally hide from investors for more than a year, has spurred calls for better transparency.
Governments can use this approach from the world of design to help them effectively and quickly evaluate new policies.
Gov. Phil Bryant touted the Mississippi economy during his annual State of the State address Wednesday night, but also announced programs that he said would help the state move to "a new level."
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Gov. Pete Ricketts proposed strengthening the state economy, cutting taxes, cutting regulations, and expanding educational opportunities in his first State of the State address.
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
Gov. Mary Fallin, in her annual state of the state speech, urged lawmakers to improve the way the state budget is drawn up so that priority areas of education, public safety and health can be adequately funded.
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His idea is to eliminate the estate tax and cut the Maine income tax by more than half a billion dollars annually by 2019.
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Patrick Cannon, now serving 44 months at a federal prison camp in West Virginia, was indicted this week for an illegal vote he cast last fall.
Outside of the state Gov. John Kasich barely registers in presidential polls.
Gov. Rick Scott wants to repeal a controversial hospital funding law under which counties that use local dollars to attract federal matching funds have to share the money with counties that don't raise local funds.
Sublette County, Wyo., Sheriff Department Deputy Gene Bryson, objecting to a new office policy forbidding cowboy hats or cowboy boots and requiring deputies to wear black trousers, a tan shirt, black boots and a black ball cap.
New Sublette County Sheriff Stephen Haskell will require all deputies to wear black trousers, a tan shirt, black boots and a black ball cap.
Amount a Canadian woman owes the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children after giving birth in Hawaii while on vacation last year.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, explaining why he has vowed not to sign any budget agreements without significant ethics reforms for politicians. His announcement follows the arrest of then-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.
Amount of traffic and parking tickets that went unpaid in Washington, D.C., last year.
The Environmental Protection Agency is calling on the State Department to rethink its conclusion that construction of the Keystone XL pipeline would have minimal impact on climate change, saying the pipeline could significantly increase greenhouse gases.
Arizona's treatment of foster children is so bad it actually puts kids at risk of greater harm, says a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday against the directors of the Arizona Department of Child Safety and the Department of Health Services.
To bridge a budget chasm, Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday proposed holding the line on local property taxes and school spending, cutting public universities and expanding private K-12 voucher schools using money otherwise earmarked for public education.
That is the message that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is delivering as he tours the state with his budget proposal, laying on the line what may be his proudest accomplishment of more than four years in office -- on-time passage of the state budget.
About a month after a white officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., the city’s assistant police chief, Al Eickhoff, took to Google and searched under the words “less lethal.”
Michael K. Young has built a reputation for making sure that research done at the universities he led could find its way to the market.
Pledging anew to replace the federal health law that President Barack Obama signed five years ago, House Republicans passed yet another bill Tuesday to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, criticizing President Obama's proposal to allow offshore drilling along parts of the Atlantic Coast.
Why Florida is number one in ACA enrollment despite GOP opposition.
Will Vermont become the East Coast hub of marijuana tourism?
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