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Saying the Missouri Lottery "has some work to do," Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday replaced four of the five commissioners who oversee the lottery and urged his new appointees to take steps to maximize the money that goes to public education.
To no one's surprise, the politically charged partisan divide over Medicaid expansion in Virginia remains intact after a special General Assembly session called to debate the issue one last time in 2014.
In the late 1990s the Democratic candidate for governor of Kansas was getting a lap dance at a strip club when cops raided it in search of drugs, a situation Paul Davis on Saturday described as being “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Local and state leaders made clear that the state expected to pursue more toll projects. Neither the state nor the federal government is likely to approve other funding options like raising the gas tax.
Some vacation cities and states make “summer people” pay higher property taxes than year -round residents. Is that fair?
Income growth has been stagnant since the recession, but the country's pasterns are very different. From booms in the District of Columbia and the oil-producing states of North Dakota and Wyoming to shrinking paychecks in Nevada, Georgia and Arizona, economic recovery looks pretty complicated.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown, who met with dozens of police chiefs in Chicago last week to discuss best practices in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting in Ferguson, Mo.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, criticizing the legislative panel investigating the George Washington Bridge lane closures for leaking information to reporters. He said the probe is a "partisan pursuit" prolonged by Democrats desperate for media attention.
The fine for taking selfies with tigers under a recently passed New York state law.
A new study looks at what happens to people when they leave housing programs.
Percent of congressional staffers who believe that U.S. election votes are often counted fairly. Only a third of the general public agrees.
Percent of voters in Washington, D.C., who support Initiative 71, a measure on the November ballot that would legalize recreational marijuana in the District.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
U.S. District Court Judge S. Arthur Spiegel ruled on Tuesday that registered Ohio voters who are jailed the weekend before an election will be allowed to cast an absentee ballot. Spiegel decided in a lawsuit filed by the Ohio Justice & Policy Center that he saw "no value in taking away this fundamental right, even for a short period of time."
Gov. Christie on Thursday unleashed harsh criticism of the legislative panel investigating the George Washington Bridge lane closures, framing the probe as a "partisan pursuit" prolonged by Democrats desperate for media attention.
Enrollment in health plans offered through the Affordable Care Act dipped slightly through this year, falling from about 8 million this spring to 7.3 million in mid-August, the Obama administration announced Thursday.
The municipal identification cards that New York plans to start issuing next year in an effort to make life easier for undocumented immigrants will come with an added benefit so enticing that many others may sign up for them too: an offer of free tickets or discounts at 33 of the city’s leading cultural institutions.
The state Supreme Court Thursday ordered him to strike Democrat Chad Taylor from the November ballot for U.S. Senate, ruling Taylor had complied with state law allowing a candidate to withdraw.
The VA scandal has its roots in two related management failures. Government leaders everywhere should keep them in mind.
While the city's parks no longer have to compete with police and other essential services for funding, this model has its drawbacks.
With 47 different state laws on what companies are supposed to do when they become victims of cyberattack, is it time for federal legislation?
If managers don't know when technology should replace people, they can destroy the product they're trying to create.
There are financial and educational benefits to merging small school districts, yet it's almost always a hard sell.
At a time when people are flocking to cities, federal policies still heavily promote single-family homes and make it harder for people to buy condos.
It’s easy for officials to forget that the price of public goods should be kept low in order to increase use and promote economic growth.
Republican mayors are rare in America’s big cities today. The few surviving ones have tips for getting into and staying in office.
The Wisconsin Congressman's bold anti-poverty plan picks battles with conservatives and liberals, reducing its chances of passage.
Millions of dollars of tax revenue are at stake in a long-running dispute between Alabama and CSX. The decision could affect state tax systems nationwide.
Pieces of underwear collected by the New York City transit system's lost-and-found so far in 2014.
The Texas Supreme Court weighs in on a mineral rights fraud case.
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