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Today's turbulent environment of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity means new challenges for government managers and policymakers. There are ways to cope with them.
A few big cities are adequately funding health care for their current and future retirees. The rest face distasteful choices.
This social media tool is being embraced by governments far and wide. A new report offers guidance on what it can do and how to make it work.
Despite industrial decline, population loss and low income levels, Worcester, Mass., has set the standard for financial management and employee cost control.
San Rafael, Calif., has banned smoking in any housing unit that shares a wall with another residence. That applies to owners and renters alike.
Tom Sullivan, head of health services and contracts at Maryland’s Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, on how his institutions use health care to help reduce recidivism.
Lawmakers reach an agreement on pension problem.
Colorado state Sen. Evie Hudak has decided to resign rather than face a possible recall election over her support of gun control legislation passed in 2013.
Smoking in a Boston public park may soon cost someone $250.
Hollywood stars and celebrity chefs compete to prepare and serve Thanksgiving meals. 'It's like getting a concert ticket,' an official says of sign-up lists that closed weeks ago.
Change hikes wages for a nearby suburb that's home to the airport.
Since Rep. Trey Radel has left the House after an arrest for cocaine, former congressman Connie Mack is interested in his seat.
Wage will increase by more than $4 by 2017.
As federal agencies have cut costs during the budget standoffs in Washington, further decreasing the size of a firefighting work force, the burden of fighting wildfires has been shifted to states and local jurisdictions. And prisoners are cheap to employ.
And 8 more states have legislation pending to allow it.
How likely is Congress to kill tax expenditures that favor states and localities?
A report on the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., digs into the shooter's history of mental illness. Nothing suggests the state's new guards against arming the mentally ill would have stopped the incident.
Median growth in per-inmate prison health care costs between 2001 and 2008.
The holidays are always the busiest time of the year for food banks. Those who help the hungry are preparing for even more recipients this year.
The pension system is not to blame for Detroit’s woes – but Detroit's risky investments to prop up the pension system sure didn't help.
Announcing the dual Medicaid-Medicare program
After declining last year, it's estimated that 41 states recorded spending increases in fiscal 2013. View up-to-date spending data for each state.
Editorial published at Bloomberg News praising New Jersey's decision to allow online gambling, and recommending such a policy for the entire country.
Expansion states are taking advantage of the chance to cover outside hospitalizations that cost their states millions, as well as the opportunity to enroll parolees in Medicaid. Studies show health care keeps them from returning to prison.
A Sacramento judge finds the state can't use billions in bond funding and must come up with a new financing plan. State officials explore ways to keep the project moving.
How Republican immigration policy might have to change
Talk of Medicaid expansion in the state can, at best, be described as a hushed whisper.
Black, Latino and Native American leaders join forces to call for a new name for Washington’s team.
The State Board of Elections on Monday declared Democrat Mark R. Herring the winner of Virginia's election for attorney general, by 165 votes.
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