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The organization's mission is to move civic hacking's focus toward building solutions and providing ongoing support so those solutions -- primarily in disaster response and recovery -- can succeed in the public sector.
Voter turnout for local elections has historically lagged but is getting worse, prompting officials to explore new ways to get people to the polls.
States are trying to budget with an eye on results.
The city has a higher percentage of train fatalities that are suicides than the national average. Experts are seeking to fix that.
Efforts to restore the coral reefs get a high-tech boost.
Number of researchers worldwide working on "rebalancing" urban bike-share stations. Computer scientists and mathematicians are testing new algorithms to ensure riders don't face too-full or empty stations.
The race for governor in Wisconsin, featuring incumbent Gov. Scott Walker, who is often mentioned as a potential Republican presidential candidate, remains locked in a dead heat, the state's leading pollster reported Wednesday.
Kansas, Missouri and seven other states have signed on to a movement that would wrest regulation of most of the nation's health care insurance systems from the federal government.
If Mike Pence decides to run for president, he could enter the race with a big advantage from a very important place: Koch World.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal filed a suit against the Obama administration Wednesday, joining a conservative-led effort to challenge controversial national education standards knows as the Common Core, which Jindal says violate states' sovereignty.
William Kennedy Smith, who counts among his uncles two senators and a president, is going into the family business — in the political equivalent of the mailroom.
Santa Fe made history Wednesday by becoming the first city in New Mexico to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Some cities will get grant funding to test a method of problem solving designed by the charitable foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Two new studies question federal funding formulas for public assistance. Are some states getting shortchanged?
Is Rick Perry overdoing border control?
Despite the calendar, campaigns are taking a back seat in the Texas news cycle.
See income inequality data, as measured by the Gini index and a household income ratio.
States -- including California, where female prisoners were involuntarily sterilized as late as 2013 -- are figuring out how to compensate the victims.
With voter turnout at all-time lows in some places, the first president of Facebook is launching a tech startup to boost civic engagement.
Americans in general have become more partisan in recent years. But the Milwaukee schism is larger than in other places, and it’s getting bigger.
Cap and trade may be dead on Capitol Hill, but states could use it to meet new EPA targets for reducing power plants’ carbon emissions.
Larger metro areas experience some of the highest income inequality, and since the Great Recession, it’s only gotten worse. On Thursday, fast-food workers in 100 cities protested for higher wages.
In the early 1900s, Charles Mallory Hatfield was hired to cure California's drought.
States can eventually drop major portions of the health law if they plan to maintain the same level of coverage at the same cost to the federal government.
After struggling to restore millions of people's power in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey has become the first state with a “green” bank focused on energy resilience.
Governing and its sister publications are covering preparedness this month.
Lacking substantial state or federal support, local governments throughout the country are using natural disasters as a way to get their infrastructure, personnel and budgets better prepared for the next.
Rapidly increasing poverty, scarce jobs and even scarcer resources are now a feature of suburban life.
How a lot of money and a little luck brought one of the nation’s most dangerous neighborhoods back to life.
Why small firms are slow to embrace ACA business exchanges.
