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( Nation / Politics )
Denver, CO, USA. This has been, in many places, the year of the political newcomer, the year that voters, aglow with Tea Party fervor, have cast out incumbents and elected a new crop of candidates who could boast of their inexperience.
But there a
09-10-10
Word count: 168
( Living / Society )
Washington, DC, USA. It sounded at first like the best of news for South Carolina.
The $26 billion jobs bill passed by Congress earlier this month would send $143.7 million to the state, which has lost between 2,800 and 3,900 teaching jobs over th
09-06-10
Word count: 158
( Living / Society )
Washington, DC, USA. Standardized tests, the focus of many teachers' complaints, are getting a makeover.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Thursday that two groups of states had been awarded $330 million to work with experts to come u
09-05-10
Word count: 179
( Living / Society )
Washington, DC, USA. Nine states and the District of Columbia were awarded stimulus-funded education grants Tuesday, ending an interstate competition called “Race to the Top.” The grants, totaling $4.3 billion, rewarded states for implementing
08-26-10
Word count: 98
( SciMed / Biology )
Chicago, IL, USA. Asian carp have been working their way up the Mississippi River since they were first introduced in the Southeast almost 20 years ago and now could begin to enter the Great Lakes. The carp are just the latest alien species to thre
08-02-10
Word count: 172
( Nation / Finance )
Little Rock, AR, USA. The Arkansas Department of Higher Education is accustomed to fielding a few thousand applications for the state’s college scholarship programs.
But this year, the office has been swamped with about 55,000 applications, almo
07-24-10
Word count: 197
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC. At one time, there was a café and a beauty parlor next to Tammy Smith’s remodeling store in Coral Canyon, Utah. Today, her business, Bliss Design Center, is one of the only shops left in the retail district of this new developmen
07-11-10
Word count: 160
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC. Right now, it’s nothing more than 275 square miles of desert on the eastern periphery of metropolitan Phoenix. But one day, Superstition Vistas — named after the mountain range that looms over the scrubby land — could be home
07-10-10
Word count: 161
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA. The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday ruled against a group from Washington State that had sought to keep petitions for ballot measures out of public scrutiny, but left the door open for a narrower challenge.
The group, Project Marr
06-26-10
Word count: 136
( Nation / Government )
Bay St. Louis, MS, USA. One Mississippi governor talks down the damage of the Gulf oil spill. Another has been given the task of managing the cleanup.
The state’s current chief executive, Governor Haley Barbour, has raised his national profile w
06-23-10
Word count: 118
( Nation / Finance )
Washington, DC, USA. A couple of weeks ago, Oklahoma’s Board of Education voted to deny state funds to a small school in Adair County near the Arkansas line, effectively closing it.
It was a traumatic move, but the school had not been able to ma
06-09-10
Word count: 160
( Nation / Politics )
Denver, CO, USA. Glenn Gustafson can imagine a day when Colorado schools fall apart, prisons close and highways crumble.
As chief financial officer for the Colorado Springs school system, Gustafson recently had to cut his budget by 6 percent.
B
05-23-10
Word count: 108
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA. Utah State Representative Chris Herrod has gotten a lot of attention since his bill to explore seizing federal land through eminent domain became law last month. Colleagues in other Western legislatures have called seeking tips
05-03-10
Word count: 140
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA. When President Barack Obama recently promised $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to help finance proposed nuclear reactors, Illinois State Senator Mike Jacobs pounced. It didn’t matter that the federal help was for a plant in an
04-20-10
Word count: 192
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA. Mary Lou Dickerson had seen enough. After wrenching cuts to Washington’s state drug and alcohol treatment programs, Dickerson, a Democratic representative, introduced a bill this year to sell marijuana in state liquor stores
04-06-10
Word count: 136
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA. While running for governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell promised he would raise money by handing over the state-run liquor stores to private interests. Once elected, the pledge made its way into his state of the state address.
03-12-10
Word count: 133
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA. With energy legislation bogged down in Congress, state governments are increasingly courting renewable energy companies with stringent new rules mandating that a share of their state’s electricity come from renewable sources.
03-02-10
Word count: 210
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA. In December, Stephen Laker found himself in an agonizing position. As public health administrator for the Vermilion County Health Department in Illinois, Laker was six days into a $9,500-a-day payroll cycle but he had only $7,0
02-18-10
Word count: 176
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA.
Over the past few months, state legislators around the country have
been confronted with unfinished fiscal business tugging at them like a
bad dream.
Mid-year budget gaps have opened in dozens of states,
brought on, in par
12-22-09
Word count: 134
( Nation / Finance )
Washington, DC, USA. It’s going to be a long, hard climb out of the current economic downturn for many recession-ridden states hit hard by the housing crash, unemployment and shrinking revenues.
But as the national economy starts its slow recov
11-06-09
Word count: 183
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA. As state health officials prepare to dispense the first trickle of H1N1 flu vaccine next week, a new report warns of gaps in preparation and resources that could swamp responders at the same time health budgets are being cut.
10-02-09
Word count: 173
( Nation / Government )
Fairfax, VA, USA. A top Obama administration official says no discussions have taken place on whether to help states after the $787 billion stimulus ends. With roughly half of the economic stimulus money already obligated, federal officials are tur
09-26-09
Word count: 100
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