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Yoga in some California prisons offers inmates 90-minute pursuits of inner peace.
The city prepares to sell ads on municipal buildings and vehicles.
If the feds allow two of the biggest cable companies to combine, municipalities would lose even more power to create high-quality, low-cost publicly owned broadband services for their citizens.
This week's roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
A seven-member board could oversee Detroit’s pensions and finances for at least 20 years under a package of 11 bills that will govern the state’s contribution toward settling Detroit’s historic bankruptcy.
An overhaul of the health care program in the state set off a scramble among providers to enroll clients requiring minimal care, pointing to hidden costs and potential abuses.
A North Texas city that sits on top of the Barnett Shale, believed to hold one of the largest natural gas reserves in the U.S., could become the first area in the state to permanently ban hydraulic fracturing.
California and Minnesota took steps on Thursday toward becoming the first states in the country to pass laws requiring smartphones to feature stronger anti-theft technology.
Gov. Tom Corbett put another nail in the coffin of Pennsylvania's voter identification law on Thursday, announcing he would not appeal a judge's decision that the law violated the fundamental right to vote.
The Obama administration delivered an unequivocally clear message — again — on Thursday: All children have a right to enroll in public schools regardless of their citizenship or immigration status.
Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick, on the announcement that New York Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy will not run for a second term.
Bayview models resilience planning from the grassroots up.
Arizona offers a sneak peak at the costs of shifting kids off of CHIP and putting them in insurance exchanges.
Lawsuits address the transparency of the state's execution system.
Nebraska has a new tourism brand and it's, well, nice.
Are special fees for driving green a penalty?
Number of police officers for every 10,000 residents in the District of Columbia, which is the highest rate in the country.
Percent decline in government support for America's poorest families (single-parent families with incomes below 50 percent of the federal poverty line) between 1983 and 2004.
Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy at the University of California-Los Angeles, arguing that states' rules regarding marijuana intoxication limits and driving don't have anything to do with actual danger or whether somebody’s impaired or not.
Mina Karini, who was arrested and charged with theft after she and a friend took several old Washington, D.C., recycling bins, intending to use them as flower pots. The District is replacing the old bins (indicated by yellow "take me" stickers) and because the city has left so many old bins sitting in front of houses for weeks, Karini believed they were free for the taking.
Percent of North Carolina's registered voters who participated in primary elections Tuesday.
With no conclusive research, states are all over the map as they try to assess intoxication by measuring blood levels of THC, the main ingredient in marijuana.
The leading Democratic candidates for Maryland governor sparred Wednesday over health care, the death penalty and corporate taxes in a spirited first debate that featured an unusually combative performance from front-runner Anthony G. Brown.
Lawyers have zeroed in on Texas' secrecy in the aftermath of a botched execution in neighboring Oklahoma, raising questions about whether the lack of information about how the death penalty is implemented could lead to cruel and unusual punishment.
Ignoring a resolution passed by the state Legislature to block the plan, a state board today adopted a series of changes Gov. Chris Christie's administration proposed to the rules governing how thousands of state workers are hired, promoted, and fired.
Backing down from a five-hour fight over whether industrial hemp farmers should be able to access a new credit union-like arrangement for marijuana businesses, the state House narrowly passed a pot banking bill that would create the first cooperative of its kind.
The Transportation Department issued an emergency order Wednesday requiring that railroads inform state emergency management officials about the movement of large shipments of crude oil through their states and urged shippers not to use older model tanks cars that are easily ruptured in accidents, even at slow speeds.
View police and law enforcement employee statistics for more than 1,000 U.S. cities.
Police staffing levels vary greatly across U.S. cities, averaging about 17 officers per 10,000 residents. View and compare employment data for each jurisdiction.
New research finds that federal spending on safety net programs has gone up since the 1970s, but it's not reaching the nation's poorest people and families.
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