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As financial pressures mount, many rural systems are compressing their calendars — sparking debate over trade-offs in learning time and family burdens.
Increase in the nation’s prison population in 2023, the second consecutive year the number of people incarcerated in state and federal prisons grew ...
The assistance program is a shell of its former self, with caseloads down and millions of poor families receiving no help.
Americans have always feared crowding and congestion, blaming the anonymity of the city for a decline in community feeling. But cities’ energy and vitality continue to pull people toward urban life.
Modern multifamily buildings are far safer than those built long ago. It’s another reason for policymakers to remove regulatory barriers to constructing them.
Josh Green’s plan relies heavily on redeveloping state land and expediting permits — but nearly half the pipeline homes haven’t cleared essential approvals.
Growth in solar and wind generation exceeded the increase in global electricity demand by 9 percent in the first half of 2025 ...
Rhonda Smith, a resident of Lyerly, Georgia. Smith was expressing her support for U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who continues to maintain strong loyalty among her northwest Ga. constituents despite recent clashes with GOP leadership. Greene has remained a dominant political force in her district. In 2024, she ran unopposed in the primary and secured 64 percent in the general election after district boundaries shifted. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The new law also comes with extra consumer protections.
In Virginia, lottery income funds about 10 percent of the K-12 budget. Economic fears are leading residents to play less.
Governments are paying out billions to settle thousands of claims. There is no substitute for justice, but keeping the abuse from happening in the first place would be far more cost-effective.
Geothermal energy is a reliable, low-emission power source that can repurpose abandoned oil and gas wells. New engineering techniques are attracting rising levels of investment.
Grant Beeber, a 21-year-old Indiana University intern at financial services firm TIAA, on the company’s luxury new Frisco, Texas, offices. It’s part of a wider push by major employers to lure workers back onsite with amenity-rich campuses. Over the past decade, more than 700 companies have expanded in the Dallas-Fort Worth region — nearly 200 establishing new headquarters — and many are investing heavily in on-site perks that rival Silicon Valley’s. (The Dallas Daily News)
The prison sentence former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan began serving Monday at a federal facility in West Virginia for public corruption ...
Under a law effective July 1, officers may force observers to stay 25 feet back, a mandate critics say shields law enforcement from public scrutiny during active scenes.
A new law in New Jersey requires cities to plan for a share of the state’s housing needs. The Republican candidate for governor is tapping into local frustration about it.
A local artist and business owner are creating a visual reminder of the scale of the losses in January’s Eaton Fire.
As the technology transforms service delivery, it’s essential to balance innovation, risk and public trust.
Not much for now, with next year’s insurance premiums jumping far more than general inflation and tax revenues. Employers’ only hope to begin stemming these costs long term is a stronger, unified front at the state and national levels. There also could be an important role for public pensions.
Rev. Rodney Hudson. The pastor of Ames Memorial Church in Sandtown-Winchester and Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Harlem Park explained why he openly carries a firearm during church services. After being mugged in his church parking lot and attacked while giving a eulogy, Hudson said he now employs an armed guard for all church activities. “It’s sad to say — we all believe in God as our protector,” he said, “but the other harsh reality is that there are so many people who have absolutely no respect for God and the church nowadays.” (Baltimore Sun)
Mayor Katrina Thompson says she refuses to govern her small town outside Chicago from a position of fear.
The city’s first-in-the-nation “Safe Stores are Staffed Stores” ordinance requires major retailers to hire more employees and limit self-checkout, drawing praise from unions and pushback from grocers.
The police department in Columbus, Ohio, has overhauled its management structure and the way it seeks to disrupt violence, helping bring homicides down significantly.
The new federal rules will stress-test our systems. It’s a chance to stop rewarding routine over improvement.
The share of U.S. flight delays now caused by air traffic control staffing shortages, according to the Federal Aviation Administration ...
Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee for governor of New Jersey. Ciattarelli, who faces Democrat Mikie Sherrill in the November election, says that while he gets a warm reception from prospective voters when he promises to lower property taxes and fix NJ Transit, there’s one topic that “brings down the house every single time” — his pledge to rescind the state’s five-year-old ban on grocery stores, restaurants and other businesses handing out single-use plastic and paper bags. (New Jersey Monitor)
As Trump’s influence looms large over Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, the outcomes may determine who leads the Republican Party into the post-2028 era.
Not enough instructors and limited hospital placements are throttling capacity, despite surging interest and urgent workforce needs.
Lawmakers want to prevent chatbots capable of human-like conversations from encouraging teens to hurt themselves or engaging in sexual interactions with kids.
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