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A month after she was sworn in, Cara Spencer had to deal with a devastating tornado.
The city’s movement toward free care for kids up to age 2 could be a gamechanger with national implications. And it’s a sign of the growing political strength of working parents.
Washington wants to prune federal regulations. The feds should pay attention to what the Old Dominion is doing. And AI can help.
Democrats face financial and political risk in their bid to block the GOP plan.
Providers report denial rates up to 17.5 percent. To cope with the mounting financial pressure, some small clinics have stopped accepting Medicaid altogether.
Hurricane season begins in earnest in August. The devastating floods in Texas earlier this summer underscored the importance of state and local readiness as the federal government rethinks its role in disaster response.
The new tax and spending law’s requirements for food assistance and Medicaid impose costly administrative burdens on states and localities. Widely misunderstood rules for taxing overtime will intensify the administrative pain. Public employers should start preparing their workers for the confusion to come.
The park in Portland, Ore., takes up little space but has a whimsical history.
The Trump administration is trying to stop wind projects, but the Great Lakes states have a powerful say in what happens on the lakes, where turbines could power the entire region and beyond. They should lay the groundwork now.
The mayor is facing a more than $1 billion budget deficit and has already disavowed a property tax hike.
With little public detail about its methods or goals, the governor’s new investigative unit raises questions about transparency, political intent and the future of local oversight.
Monique Limón, a Santa Barbara Democrat, was chosen to serve as the next president pro tem of the California state Senate. A former educator, she’s the first woman of color to serve in the role.
Cities that depend heavily on federal research dollars will necessarily take a hit. But a look at two different cities suggests two possible futures.
Montana’s law empowers residents with control over sensitive neural data, building on Colorado and California's legislation amid growing concerns over consumer neurotechnology.
Funding cuts eliminate nearly half the grants, forcing nonprofits to downsize and cancel internships, leaving thousands adrift.
Labor and delivery units have closed and recruitment has collapsed, with physician leaders warning the workforce loss could take decades to recover.
Groups focused on food security are scrambling following the cancellation of federal programs supporting purchases from local farmers.
Pension funds enjoyed enormous stock market returns during the pandemic but slower gains and underfunding has increased their liabilities.
A decade of noncompliance with federal rules has left districts scrambling to meet student mental health needs without adequate support.
An agreement with federal agencies shields early-childhood programs from immigration status screening, avoiding potential closures and preserving services for more than 4,700 vulnerable children.
Many voters are switching party allegiances during the Trump era, but the parties aren't changing in ways that reflect their preferences.
Denver’s new sidewalk program shifts the responsibility from property owners to the city. It’s a far-reaching plan to improve thousands of miles of infrastructure.
It’s threatened with extinction in many places and the relationship can be fraught, but it has a lot of value both to communities and their governments. Social media alone isn’t a substitute.
By combining skills training, mental health support, and guaranteed job placement, the R.I.S.E. program offers a rare promise of post-release stability in Oklahoma.
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill, states must decide whether to participate in the nation's first federally backed school voucher program or reject federal dollars amid partisan and fiscal concerns.
Supervisors say the move is about transparency and civil rights, but federal officials warn it could compromise agent safety and operational security
Legislators on both sides of the aisle have moved to regulate these kiosks, which allow customers to purchase cryptocurrency and send it to a digital wallet.
They raise issues of fairness, and critics claim they’re only about revenue. More speed and red-light cameras, however, would prevent a lot of deaths and injuries.
Revoking the 2009 endangerment finding would weaken regulation of greenhouse gases and shift more responsibility to states already bracing for climate impacts.
The funding comes amid an immigration crackdown and growing pressure on states to build temporary facilities, raising fiscal, legal and environmental questions.
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