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Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies conducting criminal investigations collected data on cellphone activity thousands of times last year, with each request to a phone company yielding hundreds or thousands of phone numbers of innocent Americans along with those of potential suspects.
California's second-largest Indian tribe could soon have its first casino under a deal signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
He has battled the tobacco, taxicab and soda industries. Now, in his last days in office, one of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s final showdowns is with makers of plastic-foam food containers.
In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument on the Statehouse steps.
Legislators in Montgomery and Prince George's counties teamed up with the District of Columbia to raise the region's minimum wage. To do so required some compromise and trust in one another. This is how it happened.
Governments' financial statements may seem intimidating to those without number-crunching expertise. But these documents contain important information that public officials need to know. Here's how to find it.
California state government rises in estimation of voters
While private-sector employment may finally be ready to accelerate, state and local government job growth has been among the weakest of any industry.
Percent of black male students suspended from middle school or high school, compared to 11 percent of white males.
Wisconsin Deputy Treasurer Scott Feldt, on the future of Bitcoins for government payments.
Only 25 states have expanded Medicaid so far, but some see ways to make expansion attractive for both parties in every state.
A new study examines the costs of Medicaid expansion in states that oppose it and finds residents in those states will shoulder the burden for other states to capitalize.
Hospitals, museums and education institutions have become important parts of a city's economy. They also consume government services, but pay little, if anything in return. It's time to rethink the relationship.
Instead of focusing on start-ups, a new pilot program helps cities identify and support companies that have the potential to grow rapidly.
Stockton, along with pretty much every other city in California that has gone into bankruptcy in recent years, has not done is address the skyrocketing public pensions that are at the heart of many of these cases.
Florida Supreme Court justices held a one-hour, sometimes testy hearing Thursday on a proposed medical marijuana amendment to determine the constitutionality of ballot language.
In the first strike by Los Angeles County employees since 2000, more than 1,000 social workers took to the picket lines Thursday in a major escalation of a labor dispute over salary increases and caseloads.
L. Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first elected African-American governor, had a special kinship with Nelson Mandela, who triumphed over a prison ordeal to serve as South Africa’s first black president.
Gov. Pat Quinn launched Illinois' epic attempt to bail itself out of a $100 billion public employee pension debt Thursday, signing into law an ambitious financial, legal and political effort to restore the state's tumbling credit ratings and unstable economy.
Bratton ran the NYPD from 1994 to 1996, when he worked for Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Their tactics are largely credited with beginning a sharp decrease in the city’s crime rate.
There are positive signs, but there also is a lot of variation in how they fared through the downturn and beyond.
Clement Price, director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University, on the tenure of Cory Booker as mayor of Newark, N.J.
As the virtual currency climbs in popularity and value, state regulators would be wise to start figuring out a way to make it safe and user-friendly in their borders, experts say.
Congressional negotiators are supposed to deliver the outline of a budget deal next week. State officials are urging them to produce.
Urban innovation and creativity can be found in cities both large and small. It's a mistake to underestimate the power of the pride of place.
Seneca, Calif. has a few dilapidated buildings and a bar. It's also a hot property.
Despite the fact that he hasn't said if he's actually going to run for re-election yet.
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