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Every state but California has launched an investigation.
The psychologist said that the department needs to fully change its approach to mental health treatment if it wants to seriously address a spate of recent officer suicides.
St. Paul will replace 10 aging and inefficient public works vehicles with environmentally-friendly models, a switch that will remove the air pollution equivalent of 20,000 cars from city streets.
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Today’s governments are at a crossroads: leverage modern technology to foster an informed and bought-in populace or ignore technological trends and risk alienating constituents.
The so-called “crack house statute” appears to prohibit places where addicted people could use drugs in the presence of medical workers. Philadelphia wants to open the nation’s first official supervised injection site.
The transit renovations will be the largest construction project in the CTA’s history and includes a bypass that will replace a 112-year-old rail junction that carries about 150,000 riders every weekday.
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Expanding the definition of “election systems” to include all of the primary and secondary interfaces to voter registration databases can also expand the number of funding sources available for the acquisition of tools and services to protect these interfaces.
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As if weather related events that compromise our safety and security aren’t enough, the critical events driven by man-made actions have been a turning point for our nation.
In Indiana, St Joseph County’s new dispatch center will cost $8.2 million in annual operating costs. To pay for the center, local townships and a library could lose millions in funds.
At issue is the assessed taxable value of the 42,000-seat waterfront stadium, which sits on land leased from the Port of San Francisco. The city could be losing out on about $543,000 in property taxes over the three years in dispute.
The law, which bars landlords from turning away tenants with certain types of criminal backgrounds, may be delayed as lawyers try to finalize critical rules that have triggered controversy.
Solar energy projects could replace some of the jobs and tax revenues that may be lost as constrained water supplies force California’s agriculture industry to scale back. Converting farmland to solar farms also could be critical to meeting the state’s climate change targets.
An interactive dashboard allows users to sort and track data on the city of Spokane’s police department’s use of force between 2013 and 2018.
It’s imperative that the president do everything within his power to strengthen — rather than weaken — what is forecast to remain the fastest growing industry in the world for the next decade.
Without a strategy to rein in costs for its police and fire departments, the city faces the possibility of having to dedicate 100 percent of its property taxes to fund the pensions and not totally address the problem.
New Yorkers will soon provide up to $100 million in public financing to help fund candidates’ campaigns, but exactly how the landmark reform legislation will be implemented is up to a special commission.
Integrated collection of recycling has been plagued by problems over the years. But Coastal Resources of Maine hopes to overcome past troubles with technology that does a better job of removing contaminants from profitable recyclables.
Rhode Island’s education commissioner, Angélica Infante-Green, announced her plans to take over the failing schools in the wake of a devastating report by Johns Hopkins University that found a district struggling with discipline, teacher absenteeism and low expectations for students.
Some small and midsize law enforcement agencies across the state have stopped responding to certain calls because of the potential dangers, both to officers and the person attempting to end his or her life.
Nationwide, states have devoted millions of dollars toward ensuring their residents are accounted for. But in Texas, lawmakers did not budget any money toward census efforts.
Uber and Lyft on Thursday pledged $60 million to a California ballot initiative for the 2020 election that would maintain the status of their drivers as contract workers.
Colorado residents next year will decide whether to allocate the state's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in future presidential elections.
Gov. Kay Ivey is contacting state legislators, and apologizing for her role in a racist student skit from her time as an Auburn student.
Two former New York detectives will serve no prison time after pleading guilty to bribe taking and official misconduct for having sex in a police van with a young woman they arrested and released, prosecutors said Thursday.
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the assault rifle ban in Cook County, Ill.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday fired back at the Alabama Republican Party after it urged her expulsion from Congress and cited Omar's past controversial comments on Israel.
The Democratic National Committee will recommend rejecting a plan for “virtual caucuses” in Iowa and Nevada, introducing a level of uncertainty in the caucus states ahead of the upcoming election season.
A proposed deal for Purdue Pharma LP to resolve more than 2,000 lawsuits over its role in the opioid crisis is facing pushback from a vocal group of state attorneys general who say it doesn’t bring in enough cash to satisfy their demands, according to people familiar with the matter.
Some critics wonder if the new city gig is a legitimate use of government money. Denver thinks so.
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