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At Bridge Meadows, a special housing development in Portland, troubled foster children and elders live side by side.
Gov. Chris Christie signed into law today a bill that will require companies to wait until they have interviewed job applicants before asking if he or she has ever been convicted of a crime.
Gov. Chris Christie took to the steps of Trenton’s City Hall to sign a bill into law establishing an alternative pre-trial release system so that poor defendants aren’t stuck in jail because they can’t afford bail.
Bryan Jeffries, the chief of Arizona’s firefighters’ association, has been arguing to anyone who will listen that his members — and the state’s police officers, too — should volunteer to cut their own pension benefits.
A New York judge on Monday rejected an attempt by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to block a little-known opponent, Zephyr Teachout, from challenging him in the Democratic Party primary on Sept. 9.
Almost 200 justices of the peace and constables around Louisiana are newly barred from seeking re-election this fall, because of a law enacting a mandatory retirement age of 70. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Elbert Guillory during the 2014 session, took effect Aug. 1.
Florida legislators completed their fix of a congressional redistricting map Monday, sending the plan to Gov. Rick Scott for approval as they scramble to meet Friday's deadline set by a state court.
Civil rights activists opposed to North Carolina's dramatic voting law changes will use the ballot box and the courts to try to overturn them after a judge refused to block them from being used, attorneys for the state NAACP said Monday.
Percent of homeless people living on the street that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development characterizes as "severely mentally ill."
Marvin Malek, a Vermont physician, on the state's effort to create a single-payer health care system.
Politicians wanted upfront cash from a legal victory over Big Tobacco, and bankers happily obliged. The price? A handful of states promised to repay $64 billion on just $3 billion advanced.
The Green Mountain State could be a single-payer trailblazer.
Many small communities want to create their own high-speed broadband, but they've run into resistance from state officials who don’t want municipalities competing with private companies that pay taxes.
A new report highlights a wide wage disparity across many regions. See data for your area.
Los Angeles police misclassified nearly 1,200 violent crimes as minor offenses.
Facing continuing draught, Gov. Jerry Brown's administration is hoping to capitalize cautious cooperation from once-resistant interest groups to pass a plan for a groundwater management system by the end of the.
Approximate number of eligible Wisconsin college students who didn't get need-based financial aid this year because of shortfalls in state funding.
Why smarter cities build citizen-centered social programs backed by big data analytics.
For the second time in two years, Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that would have banned the dumping of fracking waste in New Jersey.
With his veto pen, Gov. Chris Christie all but ended New Jersey’s efforts to institute sports betting at its casinos and race tracks.
While the precise rules vary from state to state, one explanation is the same: opposition from utilities grown nervous by the rapid encroachment of solar firms on their business.
One of five cities bidding for the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia appears to hold an early edge with a track record of hosting the major gathering — not to mention that Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden have family ties to the state.
Kansas is the only state in the nation to see its uninsured rate increase significantly in the past year, a new Gallup poll shows, while states that adopted optional parts of the Affordable Care Act have seen the largest declines.
Neil Abercrombie lost his party's primary by 35 points to state Sen. David Ige, who campaigned on his mastery of the state budget but implicitly promised a return to the more workman-like, less bombastic style that defined Hawaii's political class before Abercrombie.
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View maps of a few of the nation's deadliest places for pedestrians.
Our state and local governments vary greatly in their capacity to address urgent public needs. Shouldn't we be talking about this issue?
The Arizona city is likely the only in the country to pay for wildfire prevention with bond money and is being looked to as a national model for leveraging federal funds.
Former Saturday Night Live comedian Victoria Jackson, who ran last week as a Tea Party-backed candidate for commissioner of Williamson County, Tenn. She didn't win.
Most state and local governments in the U.S. are stuck in a desktop world with websites and services that don't work on smartphones and tablets. But not Utah.
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