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A ballot initiative that could make Alaska the third U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana will go before voters in a general election in November rather than in August as previously scheduled, officials said on Monday.
The Father's Day/Mother's Day Council has recognized the governor's prowess as a parent by naming him Father of the Year.
The former New York lieutenant governor has 50 years of budget experience. Here's how it really works.
Ounces of marijuana left so far in "amnesty boxes" at the City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport in 2014.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, reacting to Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, on why the Supreme Court should allow Hobby Lobby to eliminate the morning-after pill from its employee health care plan.
Sinnott Murphy and Stephanie Pincetl, authors of a recent research paper, which finds that while many states have recycling goals to divert waste from landfills and have pursued extended producer-responsibility policies to try to reduce the more-toxic elements of the waste stream, these policies are too small to have a meaningful impact.
The country removes the anonymousness of government by publicly identifying the people responsible for particular projects on street signs. It’s an anti-corruption approach that has lots of possibilities for U.S. governments.
When students from abroad attend American universities, their ideas enrich us.
There’s a lot America can learn from these two countries about how to avert municipal bankruptcies.
Britain has a bold yet simple plan to do something few U.S. governments do: test the effectiveness of multiple policies before rolling them out. But are American lawmakers willing to listen to facts more than money or politics?
While the two regions’ poverty problems are difficult to compare, both places have ignored the needs of their struggling populations -- until now.
Cities aspiring to prominence on the global stage are overlooking a key economic development strategy.
The United States may be a leader in the search for a cure, but it lags behind other countries when it comes to diagnosing and caring for people with dementia.
The Spanish city is embedded with more than 12,000 sensors to help the government operate as efficiently as possible. It’s changing the way Europe thinks about cities.
How the small Middle Eastern country jumped from 49th to 28th in online service delivery should have state and local CIOs in the United States paying close attention.
Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian’s ideas are the basis for what may be America’s next consumer privacy law. But her ideas have fierce critics.
It's something more than 30 U.S. states and cities have tried and failed to do.
In 2009, Brazil became one of only three countries to mandate early education. But it quickly found that universal preschool is a simple idea that’s difficult to implement.
As urban populations have grown, cities have become centers of innovation.
The Eastern European city found a way to offer free rides to citizens for a small cost to government. The U.S. has tried it before. Will cities try it again?
After a dramatic increase in earthquakes that puts it behind only three other states in seismic activity, the Sooner State is worried about its bridges.
Prisons and jails are getting the Medicaid ball rolling.
Medicaid expansion is not going to happen in Kansas anytime soon.
Drought -- and neighbors -- press the city to conserve.
Lacking funds, the Georgia city's school system is considering borrowing money to bet on the stock market.
Bills have popped up in 5 state legislative sessions that would both restrict and expand certain aspects of broadband connectivity and infrastructure.
Amount paid by the Illinois Medicaid program for medical services for people who had already died.
Thousands of marijuana enthusiasts gathered in Colorado and Washington state over the weekend for an annual celebration of cannabis culture with rallies, concerts and trade shows in the first two U.S. states to legalize recreational marijuana.
Rick Perry is going all out to present a new and improved version of himself.
In an emotionally charged chamber with advocates on both sides watching, the Senate split 12-12 Thursday on repealing the death penalty which effectively kills the bill.
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