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The former county executive says that Maryland's new transportation funding package was key to his decision to take the cabinet-level post.
U.S. DOT tells states to be prepared for a slowdown in cash disbursements.
The pressure to give away the public's money for economic development is as strong as ever, but the pushback is growing.
Analysis of long-term government commitments such as pensions is important, but overly rigid funding rules are a formula for intergenerational conflict.
The wealthy Virginia county outside Washington, D.C., has been free of the nasty political environment home to its neighbors – until now. Causing the controversy is a proposed streetcar, which nearly a dozen cities are building.
State officials found dogs to be helpful therapeutic aids for counseling the surviving children of the mass school shooting. A new law may make Connecticut the first state with a formal animal-assisted therapy program for trauma victims.
The states will receive a one percent increase in the matching rate to their Medicaid program to pay for services that include counseling for healthy diet habits as well as screenings for various cancers and other diseases.
Residency requirements for municipal workers make it harder to recruit the best and the brightest, but a statewide ban like Wisconsin's may not be the best way to end them.
Calls for reforming city taxi services are getting louder just as new technologies are making it easier to get a ride.
Lawmakers in Kansas and several other states are pitching an interstate compact to streamline the process of building new power lines so that renewable energy can be added to the grid more quickly.
The number of people North Carolina had sterilized from 1929 to 1974 under its forced-sterilization program. The legislature established a $10 million fund last week to compensate any victims that come forward.
U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, responding to a reporter's question about concerns that strippers would get fewer tips if the COINS Act is passed and the $1 bill is replaced with a coin.
The drive to raise the amount victims can recover in medical malpractice lawsuits may be going to California's ballot box.
Representatives for the Memphis Grizzlies, the National Basketball Players Association and the National Hockey League Players’ Association appeared at a hearing in Legislative Plaza on Tennessee’s “jock tax,” a surcharge of $2,500 per game levied on pro basketball and hockey players.
Utah, complying with the federal Gun Control Act, denies or revokes concealed-carry firearms permits for anyone with a prescription for marijuana. While Utah doesn’t allow marijuana to treat ailments, eight of the 31 states that recognize Utah’s concealed firearms permit do.
House and Senate members, scheduled to return to the Capitol on Thursday, have spent most of the last two weeks divided on a key part of the plan to invest about $900 million more for highways.
The United States prison population fell by 1.7 percent to 1,571,013 between the end of 2011 and the end of 2012, according to a new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, marking the third consecutive year of decline in the U.S. prison population.
As Bob Filner points a finger at political rivals as well as himself for his problems, petitions to recall him from office are about to hit the streets.
The Senate gave final approval to a measure giving the state Department of Health and Human Services the authority to regulate abortion clinics with the same standards as outpatient surgical centers.
“As a former prosecutor who was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, I just want us to be really cautious, because this strain of libertarianism that’s going through both parties right now and making big headlines, I think, is a very dangerous thought,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.
The legislation, H.R. 2218, is part of two Republican initiatives -- to ease federal regulations on businesses and to end what they call a war on coal.
The amount of U.S. waste that is converted to energy through a chemical combustion process. By comparison, Germany converts 38 percent of its waste.
Attorney General Eric Holder, explaining the Justice Department's move to take Texas to court for discriminating against Latino voters in a 2011 redistricting effort and foreshadowing future action against other states.
Bureaucracy allows us to do big things. But like every tool, it needs to be maintained and wielded with care and control.
There are benefits in city consolidations, but the payback may not be financial.
From the moment an IT project is launched, there’s political pressure from agencies to back off business changes that would deliver results.
Thanks to recent revenue increases, some states are unfreezing public workers’ pay for the first time since before the recession. But looking at pay levels rather than total compensation hides a great deal of the story.
New York City’s first bike-sharing program, which is the nation’s largest, has the potential to revolutionize city life -- and not just in the Big Apple.
The combination of a limping economy and tight federal budgets has led many state and local governments to ever more imaginative -- and risky -- revenue sources like violence and buzzkill taxes.
A little lie the Seattle mayor told his constituents about a gun buyback program may now cost him his re-election. It’s a lesson for all public officials about dealing with reporters.
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