New mayoral fellowships give graduate students city governance experience and mayors much-needed extra help.
Most states refused to keep funding a pay raise for Medicaid doctors this year, but the first national study of the policy shows it increased low-income patients' access to primary care.
An impromptu survey reveals what public officials worry most about and what makes them optimistic about the future.
A new National Association of Counties report depicts an economic recovery that hasn't yet been realized at the local level in much of the country.
