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After more than 1 million deaths, opioid mortality is dropping fast.
Supporters of vouchers and other funding for private schools are on a winning streak.
Daniel Perez, the Florida Speaker, has been combatting the governor over various proposals and personal ambitions all year.
The notion of controlling development and limiting suburban sprawl is finding some traction in pockets of the Sun Belt and West. You might be surprised at what’s been happening in Montana.
Threats down to the local level have grown more pervasive. Party officials worry that recent shootings could have a deterring effect on some prospective candidates.
A slew of measures that passed the Senate failed to come up for a vote in the Assembly. Advocates blame Speaker Carl Heastie, who says they’ve failed to build up support for legislation.
The public sector is more obsessed than ever with using data to make decisions. But some think the quality of it may be getting worse.
Tracy Post, chair of the Yarmouth, Mass., Select Board. She was referring to state Rep. Chris Flanagan, who has kept his seat but not appeared in public since being indicted on federal fraud charges in April. Flanagan’s criminal complaint requires him to be employed or actively looking but Yarmouth is now the third and final town in his state House district that has voted to call on him to resign for non-performance of duty. (Boston Herald)
Overall state aid to colleges and universities was flat this year but lawmakers approved $610 million in construction, with promises of more for future phases of new projects.
Ruthzee Louijeune is the city’s first Haitian American City Council president. Now she’s fighting the Trump administration on immigration.
It won’t be easy, but former mayors Michael Tubbs and Aja Brown hope to prevent displaced lower income Altadena residents from being displaced for good.
The state is seeing a larger decline in residents 18 and younger than any other state. It’s also getting older and seeing losses in its working-age population.
The number of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) employees who will be working in Alexandria, Va...
Maggie Chen, who has struggled to find work since graduating a year ago from the University of California, Davis, with a computer science degree. Recent college grads are facing a worse job market than they have for some years. The unemployment rate for college graduates aged 22 to 27 reached 5.3 percent in May, up from 4.4 percent a year earlier. Their employment advantage over non-college peers has reached its lowest point in at least 30 years. (Washington Post)
One California re-entry program boasts a 92 percent success rate in helping former prisoners find jobs or continue schooling — and keep from reoffending.
The court ruled that states can deny Medicaid payments for medical screenings and other services at the abortion provider. The decision reverses prior policy allowing any qualified provider to be paid by Medicaid.
Mamdani intends to freeze rent and offer free bus service and child care. Although a Democratic socialist, he insists he will be pragmatic in office.
One promising approach is a dedicated specialist to prevent ordinary pain management from turning into the kind of addiction that tears at the fabric of communities.
Lauren Boitel, executive director of ImpactNV, a sustainability group founded by the state of Nevada and former casino executives. Conservation has emerged as a key concern in the largely desert state. In addition to strict water controls, Nevada now generates a third of its energy from solar panels, the most per capita in the country. (The New York Times)
A new law extends the lottery for several years. Its fate had been in doubt due to some questionable practices.
Drones had been limited to dangerous situations but now will be used for routine calls.
One federal agency targeted by DOGE lost substantial staff but took up AI and implemented ideas that should have been put in place years ago.
A 2018 housing bond in the Portland region has helped produce more units than it initially promised to voters. But the region’s affordability and homelessness problems are still worsening.
The increase, since 2021, in the amount of signal jammers seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois. A quartet of Democratic state attorneys general spoke at a hearing organized by Democratic members of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, discussing their numerous efforts to block Trump administration policies in court. (States Newsroom)
Better data and messaging would help. So would improved education.
A series of new laws expanded workforce programs through high schools, community colleges and apprenticeships.
Since 2018, state spending on hotels for unsheltered individuals has tripled. Conditions are often inadequate and some worry homeless people are isolated and unable to access other support services.
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