March 28, 2017 Dem AGs vow to fight for Obama global warming plan after Trump energy order New York State's Democratic attorney general vowed Tuesday that he would "oppose any effort" to roll back former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan after President Trump signed an executive order to suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half-dozen measures in an effort to boost energy production from fossil fuels.
March 20, 2017 DHS names local jails that won't hold illegal immigrants The Trump administration is naming some names in its efforts to shame local jails that don't cooperate with immigration authorities.
March 7, 2017 Justice Department wants appeal of Trump's old travel ban tossed The U.S. Justice Department wants to dismiss its appeal of a federal judge's ruling that temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's initial travel ban.
March 7, 2017 The GOP governor who will be a thorn in Trump's side (it's not Kasich) President Trump seems to have mended fences with most Republican governors, even hosting a cordial meeting last month with ‘never Trumper’ John Kasich of Ohio. But one GOP governor from the land of Bernie Sanders is emerging as the exception – threatening to cause turbulence for the president from the same side of the aisle.
January 12, 2017 Ballot measure would ask Colorado to scrap ObamaCare for single-payer-style plan Colorado voters could be asked to weigh in on a far-reaching, first-in-the-nation plan to scrap ObamaCare and replace it with a single-payer-style health care system.
January 12, 2017 Volunteer watchdog group dispatches to western states to monitor 'Jade Helm' A controversial U.S. military training exercise known as “Operation Jade Helm’ rolls out this week across several southwestern states -- but a group of wary citizen watchdogs will be keeping an eye on them.
January 12, 2017 Feds to Alaskans: No road for humans, lots of land for animals In one of Alaska's most remote outposts, where a thousand hardy souls make their homes, the Obama administration has put the fate of birds and bears above the lives of people, blocking construction of an 11-mile gravel trail connecting a tiny fishing hamlet to a life-saving airport.
January 12, 2017 States roll out trippy ObamaCare ads to lure the uninsured Oregon is in the running to win the prize for the weirdest commercial hyping ObamaCare. The state recently rolled out a 30-second Yellow Submarine-meets-acid ad to tout its new healthcare exchange,Cover Oregon.
January 12, 2017 South Carolina city makes being homeless illegal South Carolina’s capital city is dishing out some southern discomfort following a controversial decision to criminalize its homeless.
January 12, 2017 As Ebola fears spread, states take emergency response into their own hands Not satisfied with the federal response, several states are taking the Ebola crisis into their own hands – tapping emergency funds in their budgets, launching treatment units and holding public hearings to stanch the spread of misinformation about the virus.
