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The Obama administration’s reversal last month of a 17-year-old policy should mean more Medicaid dollars for school-based health programs for combating chronic diseases, such as asthma.
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See neighborhood maps and gentrification data for Washington, D.C.
Record low voter turnout and a change in state law means the fall 2016 ballot will be really, really long.
With pedestrian and cyclist deaths on the rise, Anthony Foxx challenged mayors to make the roads safer for both.
The Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial is delayed as jury selection bogs down.
Chris Christie has appointed an emergency management team for the city where 12 casinos closed last year.
While Arkansas looks to replace its first-of-a-kind model for expanding Medicaid, Gov. Asa Hutchinson urged lawmakers to renew it through 2016.
Vermont may have abandoned the country’s only effort to enact single-payer health care, but one state legislator thinks the Affordable Care Act’s flaws will boost his cause.
Cities are trying to curb people’s driving habits, but most Americans aren’t ready to give up their cars.
The nation’s mayors released a report highlighting ways cities can rebuild the broken trust between police officers and citizens.
The Missouri governor promised to work with both parties in his Nixon's seventh annual State of the State address.
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The Michigan governor proposed new programs for job training, reorganizing departments and creating "regional prosperity teams."
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The powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, was arrested on federal corruption charges on Thursday, sending shock waves through the political establishment and upending the new legislative session.
Gov. Bill Walker on Wednesday used his first State of the State address to put a positive, up-by-your-bootstraps spin on Alaska’s tough fiscal predicament, though he offered Alaskans few concrete details on the steps he’ll take to reach the goals outlined in his speech.
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Gov. Nikki Haley is proposing fixing the state’s roads with an increase in the gas tax over three years, provided lawmakers also reduce the state’s income tax rate and restructure the state’s highway commission.
Kansas drivers could be among the first to feel the pinch from efforts to patch a massive hole in the Kansas budget.
The fight over New Jersey’s nearly-broke transportation fund ratcheted up two notches Tuesday when Transportation Commissioner Jamie Fox called for immediate safety inspections on every bridge in the state and local officials were warned not to count on $200 million in state transportation aid this year.
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo today signaled his second term will be guided by the same issues as his first four years: changes to the public schools, holding to the left on social issues, controlling property taxes, expanding the economy, promoting big capital spending projects and making more strides to improve ethics in Albany.
Justice Department lawyers will recommend that no civil rights charges be brought against the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., after an F.B.I. investigation found no evidence to support charges, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Supreme Court justices treated Texas' arguments harshly Wednesday that the Fair Housing Act should allow lawsuits for discrimination only when the plaintiffs can prove the policies that harm them were intentionally racist.
Last week, around 700,000 tickets were sold, making the bacon lottery the best selling $1 ticket.
The jury recommended multiple criminal charges against Kathleen Kane could face charges of perjury and other crimes for allegedly leaking confidential information to the media.
Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Ill., will enroll its first fracking students this fall.
With his trip to Idaho on Wednesday, he's only got three left to go.
As Dallas has learned with a gold-plated pension enhancement, it would be smarter to just pay better salaries.
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