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Each are crucial for states and localities to address this year.
Once wide open and famous for sprawl, the Texas city is becoming increasingly crowded and expensive.
Private companies are paying the city $500 million to transform old pay phones into high-speed Internet hotspots. Is it a plan other cities can copy?
The feds are letting Indiana, which is now the 10th Republican-run state to expand Medicaid, make several changes to the program that could discourage low-income people from seeking care.
But a new contest, where the competition is limited to rural areas, offers a chance for smaller municipalities to realize their economic development plans.
Since 2000, urban neighborhoods have gentrified at twice the rate of the 1990s. View maps and data for the nation's 50 largest cities.
Senate Republicans announced they had filed suit in Commonwealth Court against the governor over his decision to fire the director of the office of open records.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's former boss endorses him in a radio ad.
Gov. David Ige touched on a number of priority areas -- from taxes and spending to education -- but offered few specific proposals in his first State of the State before the Legislature Monday.
A report contends that correctional staff at the Estelle Unit regularly neglect, abuse and even violently beat blind deaf, and otherwise disabled prisoners with little to no consequences.
Inmates Abused in Prison
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U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. ruled on Monday that the University of Houston could not deny a veteran free tuition benefits granted under the Texas Hazlewood Act because he was a resident of another state when he enrolled in the military.
A blizzard dropped more than a foot (30 cm) of snow across the northeastern United States on Tuesday, falling short of the massive predicted snowfall that prompted officials across the region to close schools and order travel bans.
Two police officers were injured by a gunman outside a New Hope City Council meeting on Monday night. The gunman was fatally shot by police, authorities said.
Criminal exonerations often make big news because of the agonizing years that those falsely convicted have spent behind bars -- sometimes under the specter of a death sentence -- but for those who keep track of them, it was a slew of low-level cases from Harris County that proved to be the most interesting among those recorded in 2014.
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will not have to report to a federal prison in two weeks, a federal appeals court said Monday, in a move that bodes well for McDonnell's appeal of his conviction on public corruption charges.
Gov. Mike Pence is starting a state-run taxpayer-funded news outlet that will make pre-written news stories available to Indiana media, as well as sometimes break news about his administration, according to documents obtained by The Indianapolis Star.
How it’s defined could impact state election laws from campaign finance to voter ID.
Bad intergovernmental relations have the United States headed for fiscal disaster.
Some say Democrats suffered big blows in November because they’ve become a party of urban elitists.
In many gentrifying neighborhoods, attracting new residents and restaurants is the easy part. Finding the right mix of retail is much harder.
Sprucing up a park can spur unintended gentrification. Is there a way to green a neighborhood without displacing its residents?
Sheldon Silver, who lost his job as one of the most powerful political posts in New York, is the fourth state house speaker to face legal trouble over the past year.
It’s hard to define, but it's dramatically changing the urban landscape and bringing a host of new challenges to local leaders.
In the nation's fastest-gentrifying neighborhood, some of the strongest affordable housing protections haven’t been enough to keep lower-income residents from being priced out of their homes.
Poverty in suburbs now outnumbers poverty in cities, a shift that’s put a major strain on public services and is easily visible in Austin, Texas.
After several years, Gov. Rick Snyder has finally convinced lawmakers to spend more money on roads. There's one hitch: The state's voters have to approve the deal in May.
This map displays every U.S. streetcar system, side by side, that’s either open or under construction.
Seattle is one of only a handful of places that formally recognizes and regulates homeless encampments.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker and her executive team bonded at 14,000 feet.
Officials say the legalization of the drug has raised questions about its health effects that can only be answered by studying large amounts and different strains of marijuana.
Newly elected state Treasurer Matt Adamczyk would really like to just eliminate his office altogether.
State prison officials hold hundreds of inmates in prison every year because they can't find places for paroled people to live.
Gentrification has accelerated in recent years, creating challenges for local leaders for years to come.
Oakland County, Michigan, residents will soon be able to text 911 to get emergency help.
President Barack Obama said Sunday that he planned to ask Congress to declare much of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, including its 1.5-million-acre coastal plain, an area on Alaska's North Slope suspected to contain vast reserves of oil and gas.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his allies have started a political action committee, taking the first concrete step toward launching a presidential bid and joining the battle for the Republican Party's top donors.
Sheriffs are campaigning to pressure Google Inc. to turn off a feature on its Waze traffic software that warns drivers when police are nearby.
With federal approval in doubt, Gov. Scott Walker is moving ahead with his campaign pledge to ensure that drug users aren't getting public health care, food stamp or jobless benefits.
Embattled Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his allies crafted a deal Sunday night to let the Manhattan Democrat "temporarily" cede responsibilities of running the chamber to five colleagues while he fights federal corruption charges against him.
Medi-Cal applicants who have been waiting for more than 45 days can receive temporary health benefits while officials determine eligibility for the public insurance program, a state Superior Court judge ruled this week.
Lillian Palermo tried to prepare for the worst possibilities of aging. An insurance executive with a Ph.D. in psychology and a love of ballroom dancing, she arranged for her power of attorney and health care proxy to go to her husband, Dino, eight years her junior, if she became incapacitated. And in her 80s, she did.
Promising new approaches have emerged to overcome rules that inhibit the sharing of information critical to evidence-based policymaking.
Nowhere is that more true than within regions. It calls for an integrated approach to planning and funding.
A former D.C. housing official gives a hard look at what worked, and what didn't, in an award-winning redevelopment project.
Is it because of safety fears or just a desire for more revenue?
Personal-belief exemptions from vaccinations have dropped in the state.
Miami backs a $430 million hairpin tower. Is it too ugly?
New Jersey's governor has received more than 1,100 gifts since he took office in 2010,
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Read our report on how gentrification has reshaped a growing number of urban neighborhoods.
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On his second day in office, Gov. Wolf rescinded more than two dozen 11th-hour appointments by his predecessor -- firing the state's new open records officer, canceling judicial nominations and effectively booting the former lieutenant governor from Temple University's board of trustees.
Gov. Paul LePage wants to get rid of the secretary of state position and replace it with a lieutenant governor.
Saying “dreamers” are here legally, a federal judge late Thursday permanently blocked Arizona from denying them licenses to drive.
A Colorado law that allows immigrants in the country illegally to get driver's licenses was heralded as historic for its bipartisan support and an ingenious way to make driving safer because it required mandatory driving tests and insurance.
Gov. Larry Hogan outlined a budget plan Thursday that would cut school aid to Baltimore and state workers' pay but preserve — at least for now — funding for two light rail lines.
Wendell Ford, the patriarch of Kentucky Democratic politics in the latter part of the 20th century, died Thursday morning in his hometown of Owensboro. He was 90.
She was the first woman to serve as governor of Hawaii — and the first of Jewish ancestry.
The Obama administration’s reversal last month of a 17-year-old policy should mean more Medicaid dollars for school-based health programs for combating chronic diseases, such as asthma.
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See neighborhood maps and gentrification data for Washington, D.C.
Record low voter turnout and a change in state law means the fall 2016 ballot will be really, really long.
With pedestrian and cyclist deaths on the rise, Anthony Foxx challenged mayors to make the roads safer for both.
The Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial is delayed as jury selection bogs down.
Chris Christie has appointed an emergency management team for the city where 12 casinos closed last year.
While Arkansas looks to replace its first-of-a-kind model for expanding Medicaid, Gov. Asa Hutchinson urged lawmakers to renew it through 2016.
Vermont may have abandoned the country’s only effort to enact single-payer health care, but one state legislator thinks the Affordable Care Act’s flaws will boost his cause.
Cities are trying to curb people’s driving habits, but most Americans aren’t ready to give up their cars.
The nation’s mayors released a report highlighting ways cities can rebuild the broken trust between police officers and citizens.
The Missouri governor promised to work with both parties in his Nixon's seventh annual State of the State address.
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The Michigan governor proposed new programs for job training, reorganizing departments and creating "regional prosperity teams."
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The powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, was arrested on federal corruption charges on Thursday, sending shock waves through the political establishment and upending the new legislative session.
Gov. Bill Walker on Wednesday used his first State of the State address to put a positive, up-by-your-bootstraps spin on Alaska’s tough fiscal predicament, though he offered Alaskans few concrete details on the steps he’ll take to reach the goals outlined in his speech.
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Gov. Nikki Haley is proposing fixing the state’s roads with an increase in the gas tax over three years, provided lawmakers also reduce the state’s income tax rate and restructure the state’s highway commission.
Kansas drivers could be among the first to feel the pinch from efforts to patch a massive hole in the Kansas budget.
The fight over New Jersey’s nearly-broke transportation fund ratcheted up two notches Tuesday when Transportation Commissioner Jamie Fox called for immediate safety inspections on every bridge in the state and local officials were warned not to count on $200 million in state transportation aid this year.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo today signaled his second term will be guided by the same issues as his first four years: changes to the public schools, holding to the left on social issues, controlling property taxes, expanding the economy, promoting big capital spending projects and making more strides to improve ethics in Albany.
Justice Department lawyers will recommend that no civil rights charges be brought against the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., after an F.B.I. investigation found no evidence to support charges, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Supreme Court justices treated Texas' arguments harshly Wednesday that the Fair Housing Act should allow lawsuits for discrimination only when the plaintiffs can prove the policies that harm them were intentionally racist.
Last week, around 700,000 tickets were sold, making the bacon lottery the best selling $1 ticket.
The jury recommended multiple criminal charges against Kathleen Kane could face charges of perjury and other crimes for allegedly leaking confidential information to the media.
Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Ill., will enroll its first fracking students this fall.
With his trip to Idaho on Wednesday, he's only got three left to go.
As Dallas has learned with a gold-plated pension enhancement, it would be smarter to just pay better salaries.
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.
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In his State of the Union, the president proposed expanding a program that encourages state and local governments to pay for infrastructure projects with public-private partnerships.
Despite holding far fewer seats overall, the Democrats have more governorships to defend than the Republicans.
In an unprecedented moment of candor, Florida's newly installed prisons chief told a Senate committee that private contractors have provided inadequate medical care to Florida's inmates while crumbling infrastructure and years of staffing cuts have fostered "culture" problems in the massive agency.
A bankruptcy judge Tuesday dismissed an effort to keep Stockton mired in bankruptcy while a creditor challenges a decision that lets the city pay its CalPERS pension bills in full.
A marijuana fight is headed back to the Colorado statehouse.
More than 5,000 people in the rural Montana city of Glendive have been told not to use municipal water because elevated levels of cancer-causing benzene were found downstream from a weekend crude oil spill into the Yellowstone River.
In a clash between the First Amendment and judicial ethics code, the Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether to free elected judges to personally ask for campaign contributions from voters, including lawyers and others who might one day find themselves in their courtroom.
In her annual State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Susana Martinez outlined her wish list for the 2015 legislative session, including higher pay for new teachers, a large highway spending package, more money to help lure businesses to the state and more funds for job-training programs.
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New mayoral fellowships give graduate students city governance experience and mayors much-needed extra help.
The case could halt private lawsuits against state Medicaid agencies over doctor pay.
Madison Turner told Atlanta's Channel 2 Action News he had no idea he could be ticketed for eating a hamburger.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a Muslim prisoner has a religious-freedom right to grow a half-inch beard.
New York's governor proposals would expand and codify into law policies he laid out in October after a New York City emergency-room doctor who had been treating Ebola was diagnosed with the virus after returning home.
In health insurance prices, as in the weather, Alaska and the Sun Belt are extremes. This year Alaska is the most expensive health insurance market for people who do not get coverage through their employers, while Phoenix, Albuquerque, N.M., and Tucson, Ariz., are among the very cheapest.
In Atlanta, about 200 young demonstrators sat down in the middle of Peachtree Street, not far from the annual Martin Luther King's Birthday commemoration at Ebenezer Baptist Church, and briefly stopped the parade.
The disposal of waste saltwater from hydraulic fracturing could be to blame for a sharp increase in earthquakes in south-central Kansas, according to a geophysicist with the Kansas Geological Survey.
Gov. Rick Perry on Monday ensured that BP will not be able to take back a $5 million grant that sat unused – and seemingly forgotten – for years after the company gave it to Texas following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
The Cincinnati police chief urged morning commuters to plan ahead Tuesday after an interstate overpass undergoing demolition collapsed, killing one person and injuring another.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has been hospitalized following a horse-riding accident over the Christmas holidays in Africa that left him with seven broken ribs and fluid around his lungs, a spokesman said Monday.
Travis County prosecutors said Saturday they dropped several criminal investigations — including one involving no-bid state contracts — after the Texas governor ended their funding in 2013.
Yelp and Socrata have partnered to make the results of restaurant inspections public.
An $18 million LA County program called Housing for Health uses county Department of Health Services money to subsidize rents for the very sick among the county's 39,000 homeless people.
The law gives wide latitude for a self defense justification. Many in Florida think that's unjust and dangerous.
In less than a day's time, Republican Party leaders who are gathered here heard two prospective presidential candidates' versions of an argument that will persist through next year's primaries: whether breaking the party's losing streak when it comes to the White House requires a candidate from outside of Washington or inside, and whether that face needs to be fresh or familiar.
Flanked by a collection of liberal groups and labor leaders, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday announced a raft of proposals on social issues, among them a plan that would raise the minimum wage to $11.50 an hour in New York City and $10.50 an hour in the rest of the state.
As another storm flung snow at Chicago, Alexandra Clark wondered how she'd get to work. Like an increasing number of snowbound city dwellers, she had a ready tool at hand: an app that tracks hundreds of city snowplows in close to real time.
More than half of the nearly 8,000 people sent to Wisconsin's prisons in 2013 were locked up without a trial — and they weren't found guilty of new crimes.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, whose massive tax cuts became a cause célèbre for conservatives but threw his state’s budget into disarray, announced Friday that he would pursue tax increases.
Marilyn Tavenner, who oversees the nation's Medicare and Medicaid programs and played a central role in implementing the Affordable Care Act, is stepping down.
Modern metering systems can save money and make water management more efficient. Local officials are finding ways to overcome obstacles to putting them in place.
It's not about simply delivering services more efficiently. It's about passion, surprise and invisible opportunities.
Justices will consider four cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, consolidated and heard together.
Since 2008, thousands of local and state police agencies have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property worth $3 billion under a civil asset forfeiture program at the Justice Department called Equitable Sharing.
In his State of the State speech, Brian Sandoval called upon the Legislature to pass a new business license fee estimated to raise $430 million during the next two years.
The state has recently taken more drastic steps than any other to transform its health and criminal justice systems to address the nationwide epidemic.
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After winning majorities last fall, Republicans managed to lose leadership elections in New Hampshire and Washington state.
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Retailers on Thursday praised Gov. Rick Snyder for signing legislation they said would help put them on a level playing field by requiring large online retailers such as Amazon to collect and remit the state's 6% sales tax.
This is a leap, but not a long one: Gov. Rick Perry started his second bid for the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, delivering a valedictory speech to the Texas Legislature on his way out of an office he has held for more than 14 years.
A year before Republican voters begin winnowing an expansive field of presidential candidates, well-funded potential contenders such as 2012 nominee Mitt Romney and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are battling over donors and supporters as they edge toward a decision to run, overshadowing the also-rans even before they enter the race.
Arizona will become the first state to require students to pass a civics test to graduate from high school, following swift moves Thursday by state legislators and Gov. Doug Ducey.
Gov. Sam Brownback endorsed remaking how the state funds public schools and putting the state's creditors at the front of the line for payments from state coffers in an ambitious State of the State speech Thursday night.
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A number of cities are enacting measures that have conflicted with or gone beyond state laws.
It is the first city in California to adopt gender-neutral restrooms, joining a small number of cities across the country.
U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith ruled that the state must honor the marriages that were performed last year after a different federal judge struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
Can impartial jury be found in Boston for the bombing trial? The search begins.
