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Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group supported by the Koch brothers, has launched an effort to torpedo a proposed settlement in the Detroit bankruptcy case, potentially complicating chances for completing the deal just as its prospects seemed to be improving.
After suffering deep cuts during the recession, public health officials are rethinking how to fund these essential services.
Before streetcars practically disappeared, they carried millions of people around our cities. Will light rail systems decline too?
Should government facilitate Americans’ changing relationship with cars?
After losing hundreds of millions of dollars, the city is starting to clamp down on IT contractors to make sure taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely.
By letting citizens live in vulnerable places even after disaster strikes, governments plant the seeds for future disasters.
Nearly every state has faced lawsuits over school funding. But only in Kansas have judges tried to quantify the quality of education.
Pamela Geller, co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative. AFDI will run an advertising campaign on Washington, D.C., city buses for four weeks that calls for an end to U.S. foreign aid in Islamic countries, accompanied by a picture of Adolph Hitler talking to Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Palestinian nationalist and grand mufti of Jerusalem during World War II.
Chicago's treasurer recently launched an initiative to make financial literacy a regular piece of the curriculum for grade schoolers.
Robert Hobgood rules that the state's plan violates the contract clause in the U.S. Constitution and “amounts to an unconstitutional taking of plaintiffs’ property rights in their existing contract,” which violates the state constitution.
Thousands of workers will get a pay raise for first time in years.
Two others, Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney of Fairfield, qualified for the August primary.
New study shows that Illinois and the city of Chicago are inconsistent in enforcing tickets and fines for holding small amounts of cannabis.
The new ballot questions include ending the city's longstanding resign-to-run rule.
A law helps state workers find time for the gym.
State agencies, local governments and the companies that provide services to Florida are waiting to see what will emerge from new legislation that aims to create an agency to replace the defunct Agency for Enterprise Information Technology.
If the legions of lawyers were armed with swords and clad in medieval dress, the state’s latest redistricting fight could be Florida’s Game of Thrones.
The cost of rebuilding the defenses is estimated at $50 billion or more, but so far, there's little money for it.
The Utah Supreme Court has halted all movement in same-sex adoption until the justices determine whether the adoptions — and by extension the marriages — are legal.
In these cases, federal authorities allege that physicians buy prescription drugs from companies or brokers outside of the United States and then offer them to their patients, even though the medicines were not manufactured in facilities inspected or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as required by law, according to court records.
At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of part-time adjunct faculty grew far faster than at the average state university from 2005 to 2012, according to a new study by the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning Washington research group.
Raised from a young age to become a political leader, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro is now poised to head a federal agency that could position him as one of the national leaders of the Democratic Party.
The former mayor of the “Most Transformed City” in America is going to help chronicle civic innovation through the City Accelerator.
Maryland and Massachusetts, two states with a history of health-care innovation, are seeking approval to spend more money to fix their exchanges before the next enrollment period. Will the feds approve?
The federal regulator wants to make it easier for local governments to become Internet providers. That would be a blow to state-level federalism and a bad deal for taxpayers.
Place-based organizations need to know just how much impact they're having on both their communities and their business. It's a matter of enlightened self-interest.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray proposes a $58 million, four-year levy to pay for the first phase of an ambitious plan to make high-quality preschool free for poor families and affordable for others.
The state's expansion plan would require 723 new workers.
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