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Critics have long said the cameras violate the U.S. Constitution and lead to rear-end accidents. Supporters maintain that they make the streets safer and generate needed money for cities and the state.
The attack, which killed nearly a dozen municipal employees in my hometown, is a reminder that mass shootings can happen anywhere.
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What Washington state commander Rex Caldwell tells police he's training. A voter-approved ballot measure last year requires law enforcement in the state to undergo de-escalation and mental health training.
Municipalities that have suffered a ransomware attack this year, which is on track to exceed last year's total. Baltimore was hacked in early May and still hasn't gotten its services back up and running. It asked the federal government for financial aid.
Census officials and immigration advocates warned Congress this week that untested technology and reduced federal resources could lead to vast undercounts.
John Bel Edwards, who ran on a "pro-life" platform in 2015, is the only incumbent Democratic governor in the Deep South, and is running for re-election this year.
Some police are now required to undergo de-escalation and mental health training, administer first aid to people after using deadly force, and undergo an independent investigation into their use of deadly force.
The California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously in favor of the utility's plan and statewide guidelines for power shutoffs despite concerns from disabled people.
If Nevada had joined the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact," which has been adopted by 14 states and D.C., it would mean that the state would award its Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who won the popular vote nationally.
The state hasn't carried out an execution in eight decades, but the repeal bill carries symbolic weight for activists.
A recent poll found that one in five American millennials surveyed were unfamiliar with the Holocaust.
A newly released Georgia broadband plan outlines a path for rural areas to get online, a key step toward building internet lines to some of the roughly 1.6 million residents who lack fast connections.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat running for president, after he signed a "sanctuary" bill that restricts local authorities from asking about people's immigration status. California and Oregon have similar laws.
Mayors who mentioned infrastructure in their State of the City address this year and last year. In 2016, only 31 percent talked about the topic; In 2017, 48 percent.
Not a single state has applied for a State Relief and Empowerment Waiver that's meant to lower premiums. Why not?
A week after San Francisco ended its "Twitter tax break," Washington, D.C., ditched some incentives for tech companies.
Her proposal would give the Department of Justice final say over abortion laws passed by states or localities that have enacted unconstitutional abortion restrictions in the past 25 years.
The legislation, a so-called "heartbeat" ban, resembles other bills passed this year in deep red states that could outlaw abortions after an ultrasound is able to detect the electric pulsing of what will become a fetus's heart.
Atlanta has held public forums and put together a plan to achieve its goal, which the City Council adopted this past March. It includes boosting energy efficiency, using more renewable power and buying renewable energy credits.
Many banks are reluctant to work with marijuana businesses or people in the industry because federal law says the plant is a dangerous drug.
Democratic Maine governor Janet Mills signed a bill into law Friday that made Maine the fourth state to bar residents from claiming religious or philosophical reasons to opt-out of vaccines and immunizations.
State law blocked local governments from enacting their own minimum-wage laws for decades, but that changed Tuesday when Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill 1210.
Mock slave auctions at a private school in Bronxville, New York, in which white students were urged by a fifth grade teacher to bid on black classmates, "had a profoundly negative effect" on the children, a state investigation found.
As technology-driven job displacement accelerates, governments have a big role to play in managing its impact.
The common wisdom is that their typically low turnout means they don't reflect the views of the wider electorate. But as a look at recall votes shows, that's not necessarily so.
Ransomware attacks are becoming more sophisticated and taking longer for governments to recover from. Some of Baltimore's services have been down for nearly a month.
Maps shows where cities, towns and other local governments are most concentrated.
States that have only one abortion clinic: Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and West Virginia. Come Friday, Missouri's could lose its license, which would make it the only state without one.
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