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Gov. Ron DeSantis has put pressure onto the University of Florida’s Board of Governors to investigate President Ben Sasse’s spending of $17.3 million during his first year in office, a $5.6 million increase from the year prior.
The recall notices issued last week involve 135,000 marijuana products, and have left companies scrambling. Some dispensaries and facilities are still quarantining recalled products from last year.
The state’s ballot measures are just two of nearly a dozen from across the nation that aim to reduce taxes for some or all property owners. One Colorado initiative would cap annual state property tax revenue growth at 4 percent.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes tax credits that reimburse governments for clean energy investments. New online resources make the program more understandable and accessible.
The databases are fraught with problems from due process to privacy rights to racial and ethnic disparities, raising the question of whether they really make cities safer.
Groups of renters in five cities have formed a Tenant Union Federation to build power locally and advocate for changes to federal housing policy.
Each year, more trees fall in cities than are harvested from national forests, putting infrastructure at risk. Researchers estimate that urban trees could replace about 10 percent of the nation’s annual lumber consumption.
The state is just one of 13 in which prosecutors can try children as adults without getting approval from a judge. Only 10 percent of the more than 20,000 children tried as adults in Florida were given juvenile sanctions from 2008 to 2022.
At the height of the pandemic, the CDC reported that almost 30 percent of weekly deaths across the nation could be attributed to COVID-19. Now, it’s culpable for just 1.5 percent of deaths. But as free vaccines go away, experts worry the numbers will rise.
The pandemic wrought a nationwide crisis in school attendance. How did Governor Daniel McKee get Rhode Island students back in the classroom?
The continuing injustice of Flint should be a wakeup call. With billions flowing from Washington and millions of lead pipes still in place across the country, now is the time to establish access to clean water as a human right.
A report found that residents who work minimum wage jobs would need to work 82 hours a week to afford a two-bedroom rental home. But many cities across the state do not have enough low-cost housing to accommodate the number of low-wage workers.
Gun rights groups spent a total of $33.2 million in the 2020 election to re-elect Trump; the NRA alone spent more than $16 million. Gun control groups also spent $23.5 million in 2020 to boost Democrats.
At least 19 states have declared that fetuses at some stage of pregnancy are people. These statutes could be used to restrict or ban in vitro fertilization by classifying the destruction of embryos as the death of a child.
The MyShake App is a free tool that delivers alerts to users as soon as ground sensors detect significant shaking in their hometown.
Voters would have to approve a $4.4 billion bond package in November, to be financed by property tax increases over 33 years. Including interest, the package would cost $11 billion.
Despite fires and floods, they keep coming in search of affordability and warm winters. But there are strong signs that the stampede is slowing.
Since COVID, there's been an increase in the number of parents not getting their kids vaccinated for diseases such as chicken pox, measles and polio.
Several GOP-led states have already banned the voting method. A November ballot measure in Missouri got the green light from a judge who said its language regarding non-citizen voting was not misleading.
Bills addressing retail theft and car break-ins represented an attempt by Democrats to sway voters ahead of a ballot initiative that would stiffen penalties further. Some progressives objected.
States can compensate with vehicle and odometer taxes, but local governments can harness new data technologies — including GPS, 5G and AI — to meet the need for more than states’ hand-me-down dollars.
Many big-city departments are short of officers. It's not a new problem, but young people seem to be shying away from the field.
Zoning changes in cities such as Minneapolis have helped prompt new construction, but allowing more units on formerly single-family lots isn’t a panacea for housing shortages.
The FDA has approved a test that can help identify pre-eclampsia, a leading cause of maternal mortality that also threatens the health of the fetus. Georgia has increased Medicaid funding to allow access.
No Republican in Congress voted for an environmental law called the Inflation Reduction Act. Now that its tax credits are spurring manufacturing in their districts, they warn against rolling it back.
Millions of Americans are evicted each year. Lack of detailed information about their circumstances makes addressing affordable housing needs more difficult.
Current and former employees of Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto say she’s snooped in their emails or retaliated against them for highlighting problems.
It's the power to convene players across a region, as Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin has demonstrated. He's put together an effective coalition to tackle economic and workforce development.
They don't do much to generate economic activity, often hurt taxpayers they’re intended to help, inject instability into revenue streams, and create administrative and compliance costs for businesses, governments and consumers.
Gavin Newsom has been dealing with the issue since long before he became governor, working to undo a Reagan-era legacy of deinstitutionalization. It’s common-sense progress.
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