Tolls on new tax-financed highway lanes? Colorado transportation chief raises that possibility as tax plan advances

Coloradans, who could be asked in November to raise their own taxes to pay for extra interstate lanes and other road improvements, may have to pay again to use those lanes. The head of the Colorado Department of Transportation says the agency is leaning toward...

Michigan Allots $87 Million to Replace Flint’s Tainted Water Pipes

By JULIE BOSMAN March 27, 2017 The State of Michigan has agreed to spend $87 million in a proposed settlement to replace thousands of lead pipes throughout Flint over the next three years, the latest effort by state and city officials to fix the contaminated...

In Health Bill’s Defeat, Medicaid Comes of Age

By KATE ZERNIKE, ABBY GOODNOUGH and PAM BELLUCK March 27, 2017 When it was created more than a half century ago, Medicaid almost escaped notice. Front-page stories hailed the bigger, more controversial part of the law that President Lyndon B....