Federal Relations - Page 15

December 20, 2015

Grammy museum in Mississippi gives U.S. taxpayers more blues

Mississippi is cornering the market on taxpayer-funded music museums.

December 20, 2015

States follow NY, NJ with strict Ebola policies amid ‘confusing’ federal guidelines

Several states have announced they are following New York and New Jersey in ordering quarantines and other precautions that go well beyond federal guidelines.

December 20, 2015

Dallas County officials fail to take action on disaster declaration for Ebola fight

Dallas County commissioners failed to take any action Thursday at a special meeting to weigh declaring a local state of disaster over the Ebola virus.

December 20, 2015

Oregon pols battle over when to pull plug on costly ObamaCare website

Oregon is in the process of pulling the plug on the site and switching over to the federal exchange and HealthCare.gov -- but the question is, how quickly they can do it.

December 20, 2015

Pro leagues file to stop New Jersey sports betting

The four major professional sports leagues and the NCAA have filed a legal challenge to New Jersey's latest attempt to offer legal sports gambling.

December 20, 2015

Saying ‘no’ to undocumented kids lands town in hot water

One small Virginia town is the target of a racial discrimination complaint from a fair housing group and a shuttered college, the potential beneficiary of a plan to house undocumented minors.

December 20, 2015

ObamaCare insurance navigator with rocky history gets even more taxpayer money

The federal government is giving an ObamaCare insurance navigator Seedco, which has a reported history of fraud, $1.4 million to operate in Tennessee this fiscal year.

December 20, 2015

FEMA tells flood-ravaged Colorado town it wants its money back

After last September’s deadly flooding in Colorado, FEMA gave residents of a small Colorado village thousands of dollars to rebuild. Now, FEMA wants the money back.

December 20, 2015

Missouri battles over amendment granting ‘right to farm’

Americans have a right to bear arms. They have a right to free speech. But a right to farm?

December 20, 2015

Congress considers review of police military gear

Lawmakers said Tuesday they were considering doing more to monitor and hold accountable police departments across the United States that obtain sophisticated military equipment from the federal government.