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The White House will announce today nearly $300 million in new, repurposed and freed-up grants from the Obama administration and private foundations to help the ailing Motor City.
The U.S. government on Thursday announced new delays in rolling out President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, saying small business and Spanish-language health insurance enrollment services would not begin on October 1 as planned.
House Republicans took the first steps late Thursday toward a formal Farm Bill conference with the Senate, as the Rules Committee cleared the way the way for a floor vote Friday that would marry up the separate titles approved in July and then last week.
Jeff DeWitt helped rescue Phoenix financially during the recession. Now he faces new challenges in D.C., if confirmed
The mayor's signature initiative is a top-to-bottom modernization of an often-lumbering, 50,000-person bureaucracy that controls the critical machinery of daily life in Los Angeles.
Library systems in cities across the country are debuting Hoopla, a free and unlimited streaming service for music and movies -- though the selection won’t be quite the same as Netflix or Hulu.
As finances grow tighter and pension liabilities stay in the spotlight, treasurers in several states have been clashing with their peers about how best to manage the money.
Like many places, Takoma Park, Md., suffers from low turnout for local elections -- part of the reason it’s lowering the voting age to 16 starting next month.
The site of the now-demolished Detroit Tigers baseball stadium is now home to “pop-up dog parties.”
Recent TB outbreaks among the poor, homeless and immigrant populations of several U.S. communities have officials worried that the once-tamed disease will become more widespread and harder to contain.
Hemp – a substance that can't get you high but can be used to make products like paper and plastic – was banned along with marijuana because they have a similar chemical make-up. As states legalize pot, even more are legalizing hemp.
To compete with the private sector and nonprofits these days, states and localities have to rethink their recruiting and hiring processes.
Ride-sharing services and the uncertainty about how or whether to regulate them like taxi cabs illustrate a world where “ownership” is a rapidly changing concept.
Technology is changing the way citizens interact with local government.
After experiencing a homicide rate that earned it international attention last year, Chicago is upending the traditional style of policing and using social networks to rank people’s likelihood of killing and being killed.
A new book has it right: We need to change the way we budget.
State and local governments need to change how they tell their story.
For cities searching for ways to use mobile technology effectively, Boston's latest app offers a case study on how to do it right. It’s transforming the citizen/government relationship.
It's not black and white, but understanding the pros and cons increases your chances of coming to the right answer for a particular project.
Public works projects should only be built when they have a clear purpose, but the United States hasn't always followed this philosophy.
In the decade since the parties put politics aside to pass the No Child Left Behind Act, education policy has gone from pragmatic consensus to ideological division.
Some worry that the drop in the number of reporters covering state capitals and the slow death of print media are making public officials and institutions less accountable.
We measure school performance by test scores because it’s easy. But no simplistic set of A-F grades can ever account for all the intangible ways schools nurture their pupils.
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, who called it “ridiculous” that the District “cannot spend its residents’ own local tax dollars to provide them the services they’ve paid for without Congressional approval.”
The average age of people moving to Vermont last year, which is the youngest of any state. Overall, though, the state's population is older than much of the rest of the country's.
Maryland's highest court ruled Wednesday that poor suspects should have access to counsel at all bail hearings, overturning the General Assembly's attempt to spare already-stretched public defenders from attending hundreds of thousands of proceedings each year.
Democratic Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall asked Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Wednesday to exempt a band of Utah National Guard engineers from furlough in the event of a government shutdown next week so they could get to work immediately helping Colorado rebuild roads.
With thousands of Californians still waiting for unemployment checks because of a state computer problem, the Brown administration has ordered the Employment Development Department to begin paying backlogged claims for continued benefits immediately – even before determining whether they are eligible for payment.
Nonprofits that provide housing and other services to people with mental illness and other disabilities do not have to pay property taxes, the state Supreme Court ruled today, ending a battle with nine Bergen County communities that had challenged the tax-exempt status of one charitable agency nearly a decade ago.
The state Senate is poised today to follow the lead of the House, which voted yesterday to repeal the so-called tech tax in a finger-pointing session that left business leaders concerned that lawmakers just don’t understand the technology sector.
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