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Starting Monday, September 15,thousands of children from low-income families who are on the autism spectrum will be eligible for behavioral therapy under Medi-Cal, the state’s health plan for the poor.
The uninsured rate for kids under age 18 hasn’t budged under the health law, according to a new study, even though they’re subject to the law’s requirement to have insurance just as their parents and older siblings are. Many of those children are likely eligible for coverage under Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
For the first time in history, the Washington Supreme Court has held the Legislature in contempt for failing to obey a court order.
A federal appeals panel reinstated Wisconsin's voter ID law Friday, acting with unusual speed eight weeks before the Nov. 4 election and just hours after hearing arguments on the subject.
Former Sen. Russell Pearce, who has recently served as the Arizona Republican Party's first vice chair, resigned his post late Sunday in the wake of criticism from powerful GOP candidates about contraception.
Today's most innovative civic leaders are using technology to fulfill the promise of efficient and responsive local government.
It's about a lot more than salaries. We need to do a better job of comparing total costs, both across jurisdictions and across comparable jobs.
A few American communities are experimenting with participatory budgeting at the neighborhood level. Their experiences can help guide others interested in giving the idea a try.
Controversy over ride-sharing companies continues as Uber allows drivers in San Francisco, Boston and Charlotte to use their own smartphones instead of company-provided devices.
The proportion of people living alone has grown steadily since the 1920s, raising a host of health and safety issues for government and community groups.
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Much of what drives premium prices is beyond government control, but a case can be made for certain state policies that seem to help minimize premium spikes.
More states, high school sports associations and individual schools are adopting measures to protect student athletes from heat stroke and other serious risks to their health.
The haves and have-nots of disaster readiness.
The move will free up federal funds for recovery.
Honolulu City Councilman Breene Harimoto, explaining his opposition to several recent measures passed by the Council to move homeless people out of tourist destinations and over to a temporary encampment on a remote, industrial island. Harimoto voted against all the proposals except a ban on urinating and defecating in Waikiki.
Washington, D.C., Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson, apologizing for an assignment that asked sixth-graders to complete a Venn diagram comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The revelation came when the Free Press published an article and video showing how Detroit firefighters get emergency alerts: A pop can filled with coins or screws gets knocked over by a piece of paper that rolls through a fax machine. The rattle signals an emergency.
Gov. Christie vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have restricted smoking in public parks and beaches, saying he opposes a "one-size-fits-all" approach to such regulation.
Facing charges of public corruption, South Carolina's embattled House Speaker Bobby Harrell suspended himself from the House of Representatives and transferred his duties as speaker to his next in command Thursday.
A class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court seeks to require the state to cover the cost of applied behavior analysis, or ABA, treatment for him and other children with autism who are on Medicaid.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday told a group of Clark County supporters the state has balanced its budget and added jobs during his first term, but more change is needed, including eventually eliminating Ohio's income tax.
In a ruling that could have reverberations around the country, a federal judge on Thursday struck down an Ohio law that bars individuals from knowingly making false statements about political candidates.
A new survey finds that pension funding levels across all states and major cities inched downward in 2013 and that cities are bearing a greater burden in their budgets than states.
For cities switching to greener street lamps, Denmark is the place to look.
The states are national leaders when it comes to curbing worker misclassification, when business miscategorize employees as independent contractors, thereby dodging laws that require the payment of state and federal taxes.
In a Stanford linguistics study, the Voices of California project, researchers study regional differences in the way people speak English across California's Central Valley.
King County served an infected man with "cease-and-desist" orders to attend counseling and get HIV treatment.
James Windon, president of Brigade Media, a startup created by Sean Parker of Napster and Facebook that aims to create a network focused on citizen engagement and political life.
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