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A bankruptcy judge has allowed a $120-million loan to fund Detroit public services.
The maximum amount of unrolled coins that Millcreek Township, Pa., will accept for payment of municipal service bills. The town instituted the rule after a woman paid a $200 sewer bill with a shoe box full of nickels, dimes and quarters.
Actor Alec Baldwin, speaking in support of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to outlaw Central Park's iconic horse-drawn carriages because he says they're inhumane.
"Hotness" of Chris Christie, according to Quinnipiac University’s National Thermometer rankings. The New Jersey governor has dropped from first to ninth place on the list since January.
The include a right to space inside public buildings.
The state political practices commissioner concluded that Senate Majority Leader Art Wittich violated the law by coordinating with Western Tradition Partnership and other entities to accept illegal corporate donations in his 2010 primary election campaign.
The abrupt decision was a rare political retreat by the New York governor.
The Oregon Health Authority on Monday issued revised rules for marijuana-infused products, allowing the sale of baked goods and other sweets but banning marijuana-laced sweets "attractive to minors."
Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposal to raise Maryland’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour advanced in the Senate on Wednesday, but only after a key committee stretched out the timetable two years beyond what the governor had proposed.
In a 5-4 decision, the justices struck down federal limits on how much an individual may make in total political contributions, also known as aggregate limits.
President Barack Obama, in Michigan yesterday rallying Congress to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour.
Oklahoma may join Indiana and become the second state to go back on Common Core. But critics of the state education standards question how much state lawmakers are actually reversing.
Baltimore may become only the sixth city to "ban the box" to prevent companies from asking prospective employees about their criminal background early on in the application process.
The brutal winter will lead to a rise in Great Lakes' levels.
Wages vary greatly based on job types and where workers live. Review new data showing pay for hundreds of occupations based on metro area.
State lawmakers voted 37 to 11 to overturn Gov. Dave Heineman’s vetoes.
The state Senate passes chemotherapy and cannabis oil bills amid a hectic final day of work.
Dan Schnur argues that state voters would never accept that option because it would divert funding from other things.
The region’s lower costs, generous state incentive packages and laws making it hard for unions to organize make the region attractive to many companies.
The Obama administration took a victory lap Tuesday as enrollment through the health law’s exchanges topped 7 million, a goal previously thought untouchable when the website healthcare.gov sputtered and crashed as sign-ups began last fall.
Drones won’t join coyotes as prey on the dun-colored prairie after voters in Deer Trail, Colorado, population 563, turned down a proposal for the town to issue hunting licenses for unmanned aerial vehicles.
The governor signed a bill into law Monday to enable online voter registration by the middle of 2015.
New police statistics show total crime - violent and non-violent - plummeted nearly 30 percent for the first quarter of 2014 compared against the same quarter from 2013.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s administration violated federal law by trying to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls too close to the 2012 presidential election, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in calling the mistake-prone effort “far from perfect.”
Muriel E. Bowser, a low-key but politically canny District lawmaker, won the Democratic mayoral nomination Tuesday, emerging from a pack of challengers in a low-turnout primary to deny scandal-tarnished incumbent Vincent C. Gray a second term.
A Texas Monthly piece published Tuesday morning positing that Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey is weighing a write-in candidacy for agriculture commissioner is most likely an April Fools' joke.
A new report finds the most compact metro areas are on the coasts, and the benefits of avoiding sprawl could translate to higher economic mobility.
Keeping these lessons in mind can improve the chances of success for any public-sector initiative.
Community health centers may provide services for those who remain uninsured.
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