Tag: Associated Press

Phoenix is ending its practice of allowing city employees to use city-paid work time for union activities.

Phoenix ends city-paid release time for union work

Associated Press · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Employees help customers at the crowded sales counter inside the Medicine Man marijuana retail store, in Denver. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Watered-down pot decriminalization advances in DC

Ben Nuckols · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Speaker of the Oklahoma House T.W. Shannon, right, greets Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, left, during a joint session of the legislature in Oklahoma City on Monday. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Oklahoma House speaker steps down to focus on U.S. Senate run

Sean Murphy · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

A new survey finds at least 10 U.S. states are considering bills to legalize or expand Internet gambling this year.

Study: 10 US states eye Internet gambling bills

Associated Press · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Independent Jeff McCormick launches Massachusetts governor campaign

Independent Jeff McCormick launches Massachusetts governor campaign

Bob Salsberg · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Texas AG Greg Abbott asks court to rethink cyberstalking law

Associated Press · February 5, 2014 12:00 am

Many Republican governors and lawmakers who now control a majority of state capitols are pumping new money into preschool programs at a rate equaling or even exceeding the Democratic-dominated capitols stereotypically cast as big spenders. (Photo: Thinkstock)

A new entitlement? The right to preschool

Washington Examiner · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

The Congressional Budget Office report credits higher tax revenues from the rebounding economy and sharp curbs on agency spending as the chief reason for the deficit's short-term decline.

Report: Budget deficit to drop to $514 billion

Associated Press · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

Energy and Environment

Tiny minnow is first fish taken off endangered list

Jeff Barnard · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

FDA launching anti-smoking campaign aimed at youth

FDA launching anti-smoking campaign aimed at youth

Michael Felberbaum, michael-felderbaum · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

In this Aug. 3, 2013, photo, an explosion knocks down one of the remaining towers at the old Kern Power Plant, in Bakersfield, Calif. (AP/The Bakersfield Californian, Autumn Parry)

Energy and Environment

Firms fined for California plant implosion that hurt 5

Associated Press · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

Republican primary candidates for Illinois governor, from left, State Sen. Bill Brady, State Sen. Kirk Dillard, Businessman Bruce Rauner and Illinois Treasurer Dan Rutherford listen to a question during a business forum in Mount Prospect, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

GOP candidates for Illinois governor talk budget cuts

Associated Press · February 4, 2014 5:00 am