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Gov. Rick Perry on Monday ensured that BP will not be able to take back a $5 million grant that sat unused – and seemingly forgotten – for years after the company gave it to Texas following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
The Cincinnati police chief urged morning commuters to plan ahead Tuesday after an interstate overpass undergoing demolition collapsed, killing one person and injuring another.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has been hospitalized following a horse-riding accident over the Christmas holidays in Africa that left him with seven broken ribs and fluid around his lungs, a spokesman said Monday.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, when asked in a radio interview about his failure to earn a college degree. The governor left Marquette University in his senior year to take a job.
Travis County prosecutors said Saturday they dropped several criminal investigations — including one involving no-bid state contracts — after the Texas governor ended their funding in 2013.
Yelp and Socrata have partnered to make the results of restaurant inspections public.
An $18 million LA County program called Housing for Health uses county Department of Health Services money to subsidize rents for the very sick among the county's 39,000 homeless people.
The law gives wide latitude for a self defense justification. Many in Florida think that's unjust and dangerous.
In less than a day's time, Republican Party leaders who are gathered here heard two prospective presidential candidates' versions of an argument that will persist through next year's primaries: whether breaking the party's losing streak when it comes to the White House requires a candidate from outside of Washington or inside, and whether that face needs to be fresh or familiar.
Flanked by a collection of liberal groups and labor leaders, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday announced a raft of proposals on social issues, among them a plan that would raise the minimum wage to $11.50 an hour in New York City and $10.50 an hour in the rest of the state.
As another storm flung snow at Chicago, Alexandra Clark wondered how she'd get to work. Like an increasing number of snowbound city dwellers, she had a ready tool at hand: an app that tracks hundreds of city snowplows in close to real time.
More than half of the nearly 8,000 people sent to Wisconsin's prisons in 2013 were locked up without a trial — and they weren't found guilty of new crimes.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, whose massive tax cuts became a cause célèbre for conservatives but threw his state’s budget into disarray, announced Friday that he would pursue tax increases.
Marilyn Tavenner, who oversees the nation's Medicare and Medicaid programs and played a central role in implementing the Affordable Care Act, is stepping down.
Number of U.S. states that observe a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and a Robert E. Lee holiday on the same day.
Modern metering systems can save money and make water management more efficient. Local officials are finding ways to overcome obstacles to putting them in place.
It's not about simply delivering services more efficiently. It's about passion, surprise and invisible opportunities.
Justices will consider four cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, consolidated and heard together.
Since 2008, thousands of local and state police agencies have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property worth $3 billion under a civil asset forfeiture program at the Justice Department called Equitable Sharing.
In his State of the State speech, Brian Sandoval called upon the Legislature to pass a new business license fee estimated to raise $430 million during the next two years.
The state has recently taken more drastic steps than any other to transform its health and criminal justice systems to address the nationwide epidemic.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Total cost of New York City's advertising campaign telling men to stop “manspreading” (taking up too much space on the subway by spreading their legs widely).
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After winning majorities last fall, Republicans managed to lose leadership elections in New Hampshire and Washington state.
Gov. John Hickenlooper discussed creating a statewide water plan and budget issues facing education, retail marijuana sales, oil and gas development and a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights.
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Susan Wilson, executive director of the ACLU of Alabama, on "The Daily Show" talking about how an Alabama law (H.B. 494) uses state funds to appoint lawyers for fetuses.
Retailers on Thursday praised Gov. Rick Snyder for signing legislation they said would help put them on a level playing field by requiring large online retailers such as Amazon to collect and remit the state's 6% sales tax.
This is a leap, but not a long one: Gov. Rick Perry started his second bid for the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, delivering a valedictory speech to the Texas Legislature on his way out of an office he has held for more than 14 years.
