December 20, 2015 Oklahoma governor must decide Common Core’s fate this week Gov. Mary Fallin faces a Saturday deadline to decide what to do with bills passed in the closing days of the 2014 legislative session. The most weighty matter still on her desk is the fate of the Common Core education standards.
December 20, 2015 NJ town releases dispatch tapes from bridge traffic jams Fort Lee released hours of dispatch tapes Friday from the week in September when traffic jams ostensibly orchestrated for political purposes clogged streets and trapped motorists in their cars for hours.
December 20, 2015 Obamacare overwhelming Illinois’ bloated Medicaid system Under Obamacare, Medicaid expansion was supposed to add no more than 500,000 people to the rolls in Illinois over the next couple of years. Medicaid managers now say they will see almost that many by year's end.
December 20, 2015 New documents reveal joking about NJ traffic jams The latest documents released by a New Jersey legislative committee looking into a political payback scandal surrounding Gov. Chris Christie show two figures at the heart of the case making running jokes about the idea of creating traffic jams as a way to strike at enemies.
December 20, 2015 Nevada, Delaware sign deal to allow interstate online gambling The governors of Nevada and Delaware are going all in for online gambling, agreeing to let residents in those states play against each other at virtual tables.
December 20, 2015 Illinois governor running hard left Gov. Quinn indicates he is running for re-election from the left by hiring Bill Hyers, a former chief strategist for newly elected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
December 20, 2015 Arizona bill letting businesses deny service for religious reasons sparks heated debate Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is facing pressure from both sides of a heated debate over religious rights, as she weighs whether to sign a bill that would legally protect businesses that deny services to customers for religious reasons.
December 20, 2015 ObamaCare at center of governors' meeting The explosive politics of health care have divided the nation, but America's governors, Republicans and Democrats alike, suggest that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is here to stay.
December 20, 2015 Governors battle over same issues as Washington: ObamaCare, jobs, wage hikes The political divide over ObamaCare and other key issues appears just as wide among states as it does in Washington, as Republican and Democratic governors aired their differences this weekend in Washington.
December 20, 2015 Democratic and GOP governors face off in Washington over minimum wage hike President Obama and fellow Democrats are trying to use the annual Washington meeting of governors to rally support for increasing the federal minimum wage, as their Republican counterparts argue the idea is a jobs killer.
