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Polices about whether employees should delete or save email vary considerably. Many open government advocates say states need to do a better job preserving electronic communications to be transparent and accountable to citizens.
Democrats see the growing base of Latino voters as a key to winning many tight races Tuesday, including the one between Gov. John Hickenlooper and Republican Bob Beauprez as well as a suburban Denver congressional race.
The outlook for states' pot legalization measures goes from solid to shaky.
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Clayton County's vote on the transit system's expansion could reverberate across the whole region.
Number of states that have enacted new restrictions on abortion since the last midterm elections.
Texas regulators on Tuesday tightened rules for wells that dispose of oilfield waste, a response to the spate of earthquakes that have rattled North Texas.
Now, the soda industry is going to war in a pair of election battles in San Francisco and Berkeley, two of the most liberal cities in the U.S.
Independent U.S. Sen. Angus King announced Wednesday that he has switched his endorsement in this year's gubernatorial election from independent Eliot Cutler to Democrat Mike Michaud.
Medicaid chiefs from red and blue states are urging Congress to stem the cost of revolutionary new drugs for hepatitis C, cancer, and other diseases.
Uber executive David Plouffe, former campaign manager and White House adviser to President Obama, said Wednesday new ride-share legislation in Washington was a model for Philadelphia and other cities.
Opening bid for the Village of Johnsonville, in East Haddam, Conn. Despite various development efforts, the 62-acre settlement, which is rumored to be haunted, has been abandoned since the 1960s.
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Last week the tribe's high court struck a candidate from the ballot because he wasn't fluent in Navajo. Many say the requirement penalizes younger non-fluent Navajos for doing what their tribe encourages them to do: Get an education in the outside world.
The governor of California has occasionally frustrated union leaders with budget cuts and intransigence at the negotiating table. But he has also delivered on many of their biggest priorities, prompting his Republican opponent to paint him as a tool of labor.
More than 500 paid foot soldiers work in key election states for Americans for Prosperity, a nonprofit group, funded in part by the Koch brothers, that advocates for limited government.
, conservative groups build up a ground game
The state's Department of Transportation wants 5,000 volunteer drivers. Here are seven things to know about program.
Westminster would become the first community in the state, and perhaps the nation, to ban all tobacco sales in town.
The typically obscure agency will draw more notice if political scions becomes responsible for butting heads with some of the state's most powerful and politically influential interests.
Cosmopolitan magazine, which will send a party bus to take students at North Carolina State University to the polls on Election Day. The magazine also endorsed endorsed ten Democrats, based on their views on abortion, contraception and equal pay for women.
It's likely that more incumbents will lose next week than at any time since 1990.
Slogan that's part of an ad campaign by Two is Enough D.C., a poorly funded group against the ballot measure to legalize marijuana in Washington, D.C. The ad, which misspells "edibles," is one of four that will run on city buses.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration will not refund $7.7 million in red light camera tickets it collected after quietly lowering the yellow light standard, the city's transportation chief said Tuesday.
The reason is simple: climate change isn't a top concern for most voters.
But unlike the lobbying rules covering other elected officials, there are few revolving-door restrictions or disclosure requirements governing state attorneys general.
The North Dakota Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law that limits the use of drugs to perform abortions, a move abortion-rights supporters say will end the use of medications to perform the procedure.
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said late Tuesday that he has no plans to resign, despite a CNN report to the contrary.
The federal initiative intended to help companies with 50 or fewer workers negotiate better deals for employee health coverage was, to a large extent, a casualty of last year’s rocky Obamacare rollout.
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