More than a year after Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the creation of the nation's first urban infrastructure bank it has not broken ground on a single venture. The slow start is being attributed to the lack of a working model, which means building policies for how the bank will operate from scratch.
Over 700 activists have been arrested at the North Carolina capitol building for protests against the conservative agenda being enacted by the Republican-controlled legislature. Some have charged the arrests are purely political, but the activists have vowed to continue protesting what they believe is an extreme conservative agenda.
Councilwoman Mary-Ann Baldwin in Raleigh, N.C., where the City Council will discuss the impacts of a column in the July issue of Governing magazine that singled out Raleigh and Oakland, Calif,. as cities where the councils are overdoing hands-on government.
The number of protesters arrested inside North Carolina's Republican-led legislature over the past 10 weeks -- some of whom critics say were unnecessarily taken to jail for their anti-conservative agenda.
State governments from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic seaboard are attempting to blunt the influence of free-spending super PACs and nonprofits by allowing people to contribute more money to political candidates.
The increase in casino tax revenue in Kansas from 2011 to 2012. New casinos in the state have successfully siphoned revenues from Colorado, Indiana and Missouri.
The package of bills signed by Gov. Rick Snyder create a commission to set minimum standards for attorneys who provide legal work for indigent defendants and make available more state funds to fill budget gaps at the county level.
The University of California system has adopted a number of measures to work around a statewide ban on using affirmative action in recruiting and admissions that passed in 1996. Despite those efforts, enrollment numbers for blacks and Latinos have not recovered to pre-1996 levels.
After a bloody 2012 with more than 500 slayings, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy delivered some encouraging news about the homicide number: It's at its lowest total in nearly half a century. The city reported 184 homicides for the first half of 2013.
