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Public-private partnerships have become a trendy way to finance transportation projects. But there are big questions to ask before entering into a P3.
Facing a wave of retirements, governments are looking for new ways to build up the expertise and knowledge of people coming up in the organization.
By making it more difficult to get and keep government assistance like welfare, Kansas and a half-dozen other states are hoping people will make more of an effort to lift themselves out of poverty.
After watching some of their peers get into messy mishaps, public officials are increasingly avoiding traceable channels of communication like email, social media and online commenting.
Privatizing parking meters was a disaster for Chicago. So why is Cincinnati doing it?
Troubled cities need to look honestly at their trajectory and forecast for the future -- or else they may become the next Detroit.
Oklahoma is one of only a few states in which one executive oversees both cornfields and oil fields.
Some say striving for efficiency only sets governments up for problems.
As the District of Columbia’s CFO for more than decade, Natwar Gandhi’s turnaround story has been the envy of other financially struggling cities.
A data center critical for allowing uninsured Americans to buy health coverage under President Barack Obama's healthcare law went down on Sunday, halting online enrollment for all 50 states in the latest problem to hit the program's troubled rollout.
Bill and Hillary, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, are leveraging their popularity in an all-out push to help McAuliffe win the governorship.
Hurricane Sandy turned Chris Christie into something akin to America’s governor. But in the affected parts of New Jersey, Governor Christie’s storm campaign has not sold as well.
New York state has launched the first U.S. state-based strategic gasoline reserve to prevent shortages like that which took place last year during Superstorm Sandy, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
An appearance on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” has cost Don Yelton, a member of the N.C. Republican Party, his position as Buncombe County precinct chair for the GOP.
Hawaii, which had a pioneering role in the acceptance of same-sex matrimony in the United States two decades ago, could become the 15th state to extend marriage rights to gay couples when state lawmakers meet this week for a special session.
If it’s successful, it could drastically change how environmental projects are funded by states and localities.
Municipalities across the country are cutting part-time workers' hours. Some say it's because of the new health insurance mandate, but others say doing so will actually cost governments more money.
The law's new excise tax on high-cost health insurance plans leaves government officials with three choices -- all of which have undesirable consequences.
A ballot measure in Seattle is asking voters to make it one of a handful of cities that uses public funds to pay for city council races.
It's been 20 years since "Reinventing Government" was published. The book's lessons continue to resonate among innovative governments across the country.
The Bay Area's commuter rail system's directors ended the practice of making employees on the tracks solely responsible for their own safety.
The latest movement isn't so much a policy disagreement about health care as it is a no-holds-barred war for the future direction of domestic policy.
Jerry Brown hopes the Supreme Court or 9th Circuit will overturn an order blocking him from leasing beds in private prisons.
Both Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis are throwing their support behind a constitutional amendment to fund projects designed to help the state meet its growing need for water.
constitutional amendment that would fund projects designed to help the state meet its growing need for water.
Number of school bullying incidents in Tennessee last year, according to the first-ever investigation attempting to count such incidents.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray, offering his first unequivocal support for decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Tennessee’s first statewide count of school bullying incidents found 5,478 cases last school year, shocking the lawmaker who asked for the study.
Most levels of federal and New Jersey’s state government received low grades for their performance after Hurricane Sandy from environmental groups who said Gov. Chris Christie showed strong leadership in the beginning but has not been transparent or accountable to storm victims since then.
D.C. lawmakers took more than 15 years to allow cancer patients to use marijuana for their pain. But over just a few months, city leaders have coalesced around a plan to decriminalize small joints, blunts or bowls full of marijuana in the nation’s capital.
A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that a conservative group supporting Joseph J. Lhota, the Republican nominee for mayor of New York City, can immediately begin accepting contributions of any size because New York State’s limit on donations to independent political committees is probably unconstitutional.
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