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When residents in places that aren’t expanding Medicaid or setting up their own health exchanges are denied insurance, the feds will tell them who to blame: their state.
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker who's running for U.S. Senate, when asked about the persistent rumor that he's gay during an interview with the Washington Post.
New York City is trying a new technology-driven teaching approach to improve and personalize math instruction. So far, the results are encouraging.
A November ballot question will ask Denver voters to approve a 3.5 percent sales tax for recreational marijuana that can be raised by the City Council at any time up to 15 percent.
Until now, the Tollway had been reluctant to publicize the names. But Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday signed legislation allowing the Tollway to do so, along with the amount of fines and unpaid tolls owed by each violator.
The recall elections for two Democratic lawmakers has become a political soap opera — with subplots, new characters and daily developments — that Tuesday included a $350,000 donation from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court.
Manipulation of costs and other data by oil companies is keeping billions of dollars in royalties out of the hands of private and government landholders, an investigation by ProPublica has found.
A surprising thing has happened since a controversial video-conferencing system tripled the number of Iowa towns where women could obtain abortions: The annual number of abortions has dropped 30 percent in the state.
Department of Interior officials said Tuesday they won't withhold oil and gas royalty payments next year from 34 states, including Colorado, as part of the federal budget sequestration and will pay back funds captured in 2013.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed nearly 30 measures into law Tuesday, including one allowing noncitizens who are permanent legal residents to serve as poll workers in California elections.
Gov. Jerry Brown, laboring under a federal court order to reduce California's prison population by nearly 8,000 inmates, proposed Tuesday to spend hundreds of millions of dollars housing those inmates in local lockups and out of state.
President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder met with a group of 18 mayors on Tuesday to discuss strategies to cut down on youth violence, the White House said.
It took two votes and eight hours of mostly closed-door politicking and vote wrangling, but the state Senate approved a plan late Tuesday to expand Medicaid health care coverage to 470,000 low-income Michiganders.
CIOs won’t get anywhere without close cooperation with political leaders and agency managers.
Beyond fear of disclosure, there are a number of reasons states and localities may not want to engage in benchmarking.
Special districts are growing like weeds—and raising tax burdens as they proliferate.
Congress is back, but don’t expect the players in this sad comedy to know or care much about how any pieces of legislation they pass will affect our states, regions or metros.
After 26 years, this journalist will stop writing and start doing in San Diego as the city’s newest urban planner.
Indiana’s governor and D.C.’s transit agency got caught up in controversies after removing comments off their social media accounts. The takeaway? Public officials need to learn to keep their fingers off the delete button.
One minute, states are complaining about the federal government meddling in their business. The next, they're imposing dictatorial mandates on localities.
"North Colorado" has a chance of becoming the next state if a Weld County ballot question passes this November. Even if the measure passes, the secession would have to be approved by the legislature and Congress.
State Rep. Elaine Nekritz of Illinois, which is one of at least two states considering legislation that would stop giving public pensions to private lobbyists who represent associations of counties, cities and school boards -- a practice that occurs in at least 20 states.
States have been forced to gear up for a potential second round of across-the-board federal spending cuts after Congress left for its summer recess without a budget deal.
Illinois police will have to record interrogations of people suspected in any of eight violent felonies under legislation Gov. Pat Quinn signed Monday that aims to prevent false confessions and wrongful convictions.
Nikki Haley, the nation’s youngest governor, is expected to face Democratic state Sen. Vincent Sheheen of Camden in a repeat of their 2010 race, which Haley won by 4.5 percentage points.
The governor left one measure unsigned: a bill to prevent North Carolina courts from recognizing Islamic Sharia law in family cases. He called House Bill 522 “unnecessary.” The bill will become law without his signature after Sunday night.
The state took over the job of verifying the Detroit primary results after the Wayne County Board of Canvassers last week refused to certify results prepared by the county clerk’s staff that differed greatly from unofficial results the city’s elections department compiled on election night.
The issue has been bubbling in the Legislature since the spring when Gov. Rick Snyder backed the expansion. The House approved the plan in June, but the Senate decided to take up the matter when lawmakers return from their two-month summer break this week.
The group of lawmakers working on pension reform is focused on a new outline of ideas aimed at bringing the state's $100 billion pension monster to heel, but what's not in the plan may prove as interesting as what is in it.
But several states have started to question whether these organizations should qualify for such benefits, since they are private entities in most respects.
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