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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A nearly three-week Minnesota government shutdown in July over a budget impasse left broad public frustration, but little impact on state finances, the state's budget office said on Tuesday.The longest and most expansive state government shutdown in Minnesota history ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam will ask prosecutors to drop trespassing citations against anyone arrested last month in Occupy Nashville economic protests, his office said on Thursday.Police arrested 55 protesters over consecutive nights in October for violating an overnight ...
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - The University of New Hampshire and its faculty reached an impasse in salary negotiations on Thursday for the second time in a year, as the school struggles to cope with a steep cut in state funding.The university ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio Governor John Kasich on Friday called for a temporary moratorium on the sale of dangerous wild animals after a collector caused a panic by releasing dozens of lions, tigers, bears and other animals.But a leading critic said ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif (Reuters) - In an odd twist, California business groups applauded Governor Jerry Brown for signing legislation on Thursday to create a new layer of government regulation they say will lessen the burdens imposed by future regulations.The measure orders the Democratic ...
MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's chief of staff Keith Gilkes, who helped steer the Republican governor's controversial push to curb collective bargaining rights of public sector workers, resigned on Friday.Walker's office said that Gilkes would leave his post next ...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Two Republican Pennsylvania state legislators said on Monday their proposals to declare English the official language of state government would be a unifying move that says "this is who we are."The proposal by Representative Scott Perry would declare that ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn said on Thursday he will close two state prisons and other facilities and lay off more than 1,900 workers to keep the current state budget from running out of money.The Democratic governor blamed the Democrat-controlled ...
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Shark fin soup would be off the menu in California, under a bill headed for the governor's desk following its approval by the state Senate on Tuesday.The measure, which gained final passage on a bipartisan 25-9 vote, would ban ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's administration warned on Tuesday that some state agencies will run out of money in late April because appropriations will fall short."The General Assembly sent the governor an incomplete budget that does not contain the funds ...
