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The U.S. water infrastructure system needs expensive upgrades in the next decade, but many states and localities have failed to set aside the funding or come up with a timeline to make them happen.
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When the state stopped picking up litter on the highways, Bakersfield, Calif., found a sustainable way to get the job done -- and help the homeless in the bargain.
Even big cities like L.A. don't have the capacity to collect energy data in a timely fashion. But a federal program helps the city’s building owners measure consumption.
Detroit's historic bankruptcy filing -- already thrown into turmoil by a Michigan court Friday -- has ignited a largely uncharted legal front in the closely watched battle between public employee unions and governments across the country struggling to meet costly pension obligations.
The state could have to pay millions of dollars to prison guards in the wake of a decision by a state equal rights official who determined that the Department of Corrections shorted an officer 35 minutes of pay a week and must pay him back wages for more than a year.
Nearly twice as many state employees were let go in the past fiscal year compared to the previous four due mostly to the administration's decision to privatize the state's charity hospital system.
Key members of the Chicago Infrastructure Trust called for school officials to provide more details on an energy efficient light project after a Tribune story Friday raised questions about why the trust would fund lights in schools that were just closed.
A Star-Ledger review of mail-in ballots reveals the Newark mayor is getting a big boost some 85 miles from home in Camden County, which already has collected more mail-in ballots than the next 13 counties combined.
A new USA TODAY/Bipartisan Policy Center poll finds that Americans by more than 2-1 say the best way to make positive changes in society is through volunteer organizations and charities, not by being active in government. Those younger than 30 are particularly put off by politics. They are significantly less likely than their parents to say participating in politics is an important value in their lives.
At a meeting in its headquarters in Paris last month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released a study on whether it would be possible to test what students around the world actually learn in colleges and universities. In November, the organization will decide whether to press ahead with the new system, Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes, or Ahelo.
Hemp and marijuana share the same species — cannabis sativa — but hemp has a negligible content of THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana. Under federal law, all cannabis plants fall under the marijuana label, regardless of THC content.
In a number of high-profile cases around the country, top state officials are balking at defending laws on gay marriage, immigration and other socially divisive issues — saying the statutes are unconstitutional and should not be enforced.
A new study is being called the most detailed portrait yet of income mobility in the United States and is the first with enough data to compare upward mobility across metropolitan areas.
Emergency manager Kevyn Orr and Gov. Rick Snyder say they want the city to emerge from bankruptcy as a livable, sustainable city. It looks like they really mean it.
Last month marked the four-year anniversary of the end of the recession. While employment has returned to pre-recession levels in a few states, most are still far from recovering lost jobs.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, when he announced last week that Detroit has officially filed for federal bankruptcy protection. It's the largest U.S. municipality to ever do so.
The number of teachers and school staff that Chicago Public Schools announced it will lay off about a month after 850 CPS employees were already laid off -- most as a result of 48 school closures.
The U.S. House on Friday passed a bill reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known as No Child Left Behind, the first passage of major K-12 legislation in more than a decade.
Roads and bridges and utilities should be financed, built and managed as the assets they are.
David Wilkins, Florida's top child welfare and social services administrator, resigned Thursday amid an escalating scandal over the recent deaths of four small children who had a history of involvement with child-abuse investigators.
Chicago's bond rating has taken a big hit, suffering the first downgrade in the two-year tenure of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was warned by financial analysts of the need to take drastic -- even politically daring -- actions to get his city's fiscal house in order.
A federal judge extended his hold Wednesday on a new law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges.
It marked the second time U.S. District Judge William Conley blocked the law and the second time he expressed skepticism of it in open court.
The state must temporarily halt a plan to consolidate and close almost half of its rural health centers, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
The Friday deadline was set through a new state law that makes it legal to carry concealed weapons in public. The legislation included a provision that gave local governments 10 days from its passage to enact local weapons regulations, and that clock started when the General Assembly overrode Gov. Pat Quinn's veto of the concealed carry law last week.
Although the results are preliminary - the study is still ongoing - they are a boost to a natural gas industry that has fought complaints from environmental groups and property owners who call fracking dangerous.
Heroin, which has long flourished in the nation’s big urban centers, has been making an alarming comeback in the smaller cities and towns of New England.
Last week's announcement of the nomination surprised many, as most system presidents come from campus administrations.
In a trailblazing decision that expands electronic privacy rights in New Jersey, the state Supreme Court ruled today that law enforcement agencies must get warrants if they want to track crime suspects by tracing the signals from their cell phones.
Chicago Public Schools officials announced late Thursday that 2,113 teachers and other employees would be laid off Friday, largely due to a giant pension obligation increase that’s straining the system.
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