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Each case required a special bill in the California statehouse to resolve, a surprisingly typical remedy when high-profile projects—whether a football stadium in Los Angeles or a renovation of the state Capitol in Sacramento—have run up against the state’s onerous environmental law.

The governor’s race in Kentucky was one, followed by a statehouse push in Louisiana.

AUSTIN, Texas—In recent weeks, those inside the Texas Statehouse have heard story after story of pregnant people getting sick at home, afraid to call a doctor or go to the hospital.

But what Illinois has in common with California and New York—to take two other states actively working to shore up struggling urban transit systems—is a Democratic trifecta in the statehouse.

Ahmadian was one of more than a thousand protesters gathered before the William McKinley Monument on the western side of the Ohio Statehouse, many displaying handmade signs to honking cars whizzing along High Street before marching the block from Broad to State.