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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.
Read and watch the speech here.
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.
Read the governor's annual address.
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.
The guide's action-oriented framework supports a spirit of adventure and change in urban communities.
Most states refused to keep funding a pay raise for Medicaid doctors this year, but the first national study of the policy shows it increased low-income patients' access to primary care.
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In his State of the Union, the president proposed expanding a program that encourages state and local governments to pay for infrastructure projects with public-private partnerships.
Despite holding far fewer seats overall, the Democrats have more governorships to defend than the Republicans.
In an unprecedented moment of candor, Florida's newly installed prisons chief told a Senate committee that private contractors have provided inadequate medical care to Florida's inmates while crumbling infrastructure and years of staffing cuts have fostered "culture" problems in the massive agency.
A bankruptcy judge Tuesday dismissed an effort to keep Stockton mired in bankruptcy while a creditor challenges a decision that lets the city pay its CalPERS pension bills in full.
A marijuana fight is headed back to the Colorado statehouse.
More than 5,000 people in the rural Montana city of Glendive have been told not to use municipal water because elevated levels of cancer-causing benzene were found downstream from a weekend crude oil spill into the Yellowstone River.
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