If your city is thinking of creating a municipal wireless Internet system, you might encourage officials to answer a question: If they're successful, how will the city be better for it?

Nebraska's single-house legislative body is unlike any that has existed in any state before or since.

Voters put their money where the pain is.

Transportation officials in Orange County, California, have agreed to bail out the financially beleaguered San Joaquin Hills tollway. The deal will keep the toll road from defaulting on nearly $2 billion in bonds.

Success can depend as much on tweaking the way people use tools as on what those tools are.