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Texas property owners can use nearly as much water under their land as they want. That’s unlikely to change even as the state approaches a crisis.
President Donald Trump has terminated funding for programs ranging from broadband access to digital literacy. Public officials need to step up to help Americans still trapped on the wrong side of the digital divide.
No sector stands to lose more from trade wars than agriculture. With the economies of rural communities at stake, states should call for trade policy that supports long-term growth.
The number of federal jobs D.C. could lose as a result of cuts to the federal workforce...
A resident of Kennett, Mo., speaking about beloved local resident Carol (legal name Ming Li Hui) who was detained by federal immigration officials for allegedly overstaying her visa. The small town voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, and residents are broadly in favor of an immigration crackdown. “But no one voted to deport moms,” a friend of Hui’s told the New York Times. “We were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who came here in droves.”
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing a growth-oriented budget for the center of a region on the brink of recession.
The public health department in New York is one of the largest agencies of its kind. In addition to local health challenges, the city is a place where new diseases can enter the country.
Decatur, Ill., has been losing factory jobs for years. A training program at a local community college promises renewal and provides training for students from disenfranchised communities.
The largest affordability gaps are in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Massachusetts and Montana, where middle-income households can afford fewer than 12 percent of houses on the market. By contrast, they could afford about half the houses for sale in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and West Virginia.
President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes an increase to the SALT — State and Local Tax — deduction, quadrupling the cap from $10,000 to $40,000 and phasing it out for incomes over $500,000.
Brian Renfroe, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, referring to what may be the country’s most unusual U.S. Postal Service (USPS) route — the use of mules to deliver mail to Supai, Ariz., the Havasupai tribal village located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. President Donald Trump has raised the possibility of privatizing the USPS, which might involve outsourcing delivery to companies such as FedEx and Amazon. (The Atlantic)
The amount of money the House approved in its budget reconciliation bill to reimburse states like Texas for border spending ...
They’re tearing through communities just about everywhere between the Rockies and the Appalachians. The U.S. has seen a broad shift in tornadoes to the east, to earlier in the year and clustered into larger outbreaks.
The rejected bills included tax credits for the parents of young children, a provision for a state-funded scientific research institute, and legislation exempting service workers’ tips from state income tax.
The proposal, which cleared the Texas House over the weekend, would increase state oversight of universities and place restrictions on what professors can teach.
Conflicting mandates chill innovation and create a compliance nightmare while putting national security at risk. A federal moratorium on state regulation would be a good step toward developing a coherent national strategy.
Washington and the states don’t run the program. Contractors do.
Utah Republicans have sometimes been critical of President Donald Trump, but the state has already enacted several laws that advance “Make America Healthy Again” goals.
We don't just need to fix America's streets and crosswalks and storm drains. We need to think about what — and who — they're for, and bring ethics into the equation.
In Los Angeles, as in other parts of the state, the city and county are failing to cooperate in effective ways.
The size of the budget approved by the Los Angeles City Council last week...
Georgia Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms. She’s running for governor and some of her opponents are using her decision not to run for a second term as mayor of Atlanta in 2021 to question her qualifications for the top state job. Bottoms said it was the right decision for her at the time. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
By working closely with industry, clean energy training programs are enjoying 100 percent placement rates.
On a bipartisan basis, governors are rolling out new initiatives and facilities. Workforce remains a challenge.
They must soon decide whether tariffs will push money market rates above or below market expectations — and place their bets. But shrinking tax receipts and federal cost shifting are likely to have a bigger budgetary impact.
The number of non-existent books on a “summer reading list” published by the Chicago Sun-Times ...
Katie Brennan, a housing advocate and Democratic candidate for New Jersey Assembly. Brennan has released an extensive housing platform that calls for zoning changes, permit streamlining and reducing requirements that make it difficult to build affordable housing. (Candidate statement)
The Democratic governor of New Mexico and Utah’s GOP governor shared examples of cooperation and emphasized the need to turn down the heat on partisan conflict.
In New York, Cuomo's bid for mayor has gone from unlikely to almost inevitable. In other states, more new parties are forming.
A tie vote, with Justice Barrett recusing, upholds an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision blocking state funding for a Catholic-run school.
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