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That’s how many people — more than half the U.S. population — faced disruptions as one of the country’s most severe winter storms in years swept from the Southwest to the Northeast last weekend ...
New York state Sen. Jeremy Cooney, chair of the body’s Transportation Committee, urging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to block New York City from joining other major cities testing autonomous vehicles. Cooney, who is sponsoring legislation to allow driverless vehicles that meet safety standards, said the city risks sidelining itself as companies such as Waymo push for broader deployment through lobbying and regulatory approvals. (Politico)
Sixty-five people from a long-standing encampment have been placed in stable housing, and outreach efforts are expanding under a structured rapid-rehousing strategy.
With pandemic-era aid gone and long-term structural challenges looming, 2026 budget debates will test lawmakers’ ability to balance short-term gaps and future risk.
State officials say federal agents violated Minnesota law, blocked investigators and left a crime scene unsecured, deepening a rift with the Trump administration.
How people feel about where they live is an overlooked factor in engaging them in civic life. There are ways to boost those feelings.
Amount in tickets issued in 2025 by a speed camera on Washington, D.C.’s Potomac River Freeway, topping the list of 10 of the District’s automatic traffic cameras that together issued $65 million worth of citations ...
Paris Hilton, reality TV star and socialite, urging the House to take up the Senate-passed DEFIANCE Act, which would allow individuals to sue over nonconsensual intimate images generated by artificial intelligence. Speaking alongside a bipartisan group of lawmakers, Hilton said her own experience with nonconsensual imagery underscores the need to give victims legal recourse beyond takedown requests. (Roll Call)
Rising use of force by federal agents is testing the limits of state authority and civil rights protections.
Thousands of unplugged wells from a century of drilling are leaking pollution, while the state struggles to track money meant to fix the problem.
The incentives are reshaping rural economies, with debates emerging about oversight and long-term community costs.
Public officials can make the greatest difference when they focus on their communities’ housing, transportation and utility costs.
Advanced systems are reshaping professional judgment, forcing local governments to rethink accountability, performance management and labor relations.
That’s how many iconic, illuminated pylons are being temporarily removed from the entrance of Los Angeles International Airport as part of a roadway overhaul aimed at easing congestion ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics ...
New Hampshire House Speaker Sherman Packard, referring to New Hampshire legislators’ annual pay, which has been frozen at that level, the lowest in the nation, since voters etched it into the state’s constitution in 1889. Many past bids to boost lawmakers’ pay by amending the constitution failed, but there is a new bipartisan push to delete the pay language from the constitution. Nationally, state lawmakers’ salaries averaged $47,900 last year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. (Wall Street Journal)
A statewide strike aims to halt normal economic activity in response to recent enforcement actions and a fatal shooting.
Unlike most states, New Jersey applies licensing and insurance rules to both low-speed and high-speed bikes.
Federal policy fights, a proposed state funding holdback and declining student counts are squeezing school district budgets.
New governors in Virginia and New Jersey signed executive orders aimed at lowering costs.
Joe DiVincenzo has served as county executive for Essex County, N.J., since 2003. He's become a power broker in Democratic state politics even while working with and endorsing some Republicans.
A new report outlines what it would cost to bring world-class transit to America’s urbanized areas.
They should take steps to protect and boost their own revenues. And they should take a second look at their own tax cuts.
That’s the share of New Mexico physicians who say they are considering leaving the state ...
Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom, in his final State of the State address, pledging tougher action against institutional investors he says are driving up rents and undermining homeownership. Newsom said his administration will work with the Legislature on increased oversight, enforcement and potential tax-code changes — a stance that unexpectedly overlaps with similar rhetoric from Donald Trump on banning large investors from buying single-family homes. (Los Angeles Times)
Small schools with minimal staff face hundreds of hours of work to satisfy the Education Department’s new reporting requirement tied to post-affirmative-action scrutiny.
With about 86 percent of its transportation fuel imported from California and refinery closures looming, state leaders launched a Fuel Resiliency Committee to address supply vulnerabilities.
Industry surveys reveal a growing disconnect between when data centers expect power and when utilities can provide it.
It’s important to give renters a stronger voice. And we need to make big bets on new ways to build.
That’s the share of Nevada’s single-family homes owned by investors, 6 percent higher than the national average and the seventh-highest rate in the country ...
The state’s 2021 pay-range law helped fuel similar policies across the U.S. and now the European Union.
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