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After years of underinvesting in IT, the state is seeking to transform from one of the worst to one of the best digitally run in the country.
The recent discovery that the state has 96% less recoverable oil than previously thought may have helped the case for regulating instead of banning fracking.
The state's Tea Party-backed superintendent created an intraparty rift over schools. Now, she's taking the fight to the next level and trying to unseat the incumbent governor from her own party.
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A handful of communities are putting CRA funds toward more than just housing projects.
It will be technology that will enable "Cities 3.0" -- the transformation of metropolitan centers into hubs of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Last year, Phil Scott became the first acting governor to drive a stock car professionally.
Wastewater treatment plants are often the biggest consumers of electricity in their areas. Gresham, Ore., and Washington, D.C., are making moves to change that.
Partially because of tax policies, state budgets have become increasingly unpredictable. But a few states are finding ways to manage the craziness.
Many cities have made pedestrian safety a priority, but their efforts rarely focus on poorer areas, which have approximately double the fatality rates of wealthier communities.
Can the geologist-turned-brewpub owner-turned-governor of Colorado lead as a centrist when there’s no political center?
In breaking with his predecessors, the mayor isn’t focused on one or two big priorities. Instead, he’s sweating the small stuff -- at least for now.
Pennsylvania is saving $1 million a year and getting rid of the lag time when people start new jobs.
Senior public officials in state and local government say graduate school prepared them for their current careers, according to a new survey.
Email sent by the nonprofit organization D.C. Vote encouraging Washington, D.C., residents to show up in the offices of U.S. Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD-1st) with their local concerns on July 24. This came after Harris tried to prevent D.C. from enforcing its newly enacted marijuana decriminalization law, arguing that for people who live "in the federal enclave, then Congress is their local legislature."
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Officials on Tuesday announced the "School Redesign Initiative," inviting teachers, principals, universities, and community organizations to propose turnarounds of their own design.
With Albany rocked by a seemingly endless barrage of scandals and arrests, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo set up a high-powered commission last summer to root out corruption in state politics.
The U.S. Justice Department announced today it had reached an agreement with the city of Newark to allow a federal monitor to watch over a municipal police force that it found had repeatedly violated the rights of its citizens, especially blacks, in the state’s largest city.
North Carolina has begun a rewrite of the Common Core education curriculum.
More than half the states to hold primary elections so far have seen record-low turnouts, according to a nonpartisan survey of voter rolls released Monday.
Oregon voters will get a chance in November to decide whether marijuana should be legal for those 21 years and older.
Without any national movement on immigration reform, many states are crafting ways to assist undocumented immigrants.
Percent of pedestrian stops conducted by the Newark, N.J., Police Department that were unconstitutional, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report.
San Jose and Nashville are planning to tap the talents of citizens for innovative solutions to their problems with poverty.
The federal government will pay 75 percent of approved expenses in recovery from summer storms and floods and the state will pick up the rest.
The tool allows paramedics to transmit live video and audio from an ambulance to a doctor in an emergency room, and get instant advice.
The state's GOP attorney general got $50,000 from the company PAC amid a lawsuit about homeowners’ insurance rates. Was there preferential treatment?
Two courts issued contradictory rulings Tuesday about whether the federal government can offer insurance subsidies to people in states not running their own online marketplaces.
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