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The city of Cleveland is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities promote economic equity.
The city of Boston is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities promote economic equity.
The city of Houston is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities promote economic equity.
Iowa state Rep. Andy McKean, the longest-serving Republican in the legislature, announcing his decision to become a Democrat. He cited President Trump and his party's move "very sharply to the right" as reasons.
Reduction in toxic emissions from local plants when they were covered by local newspapers, according to a study. Other research shows that newspaper closures can lead to more polarization, fewer candidates and a rise in municipal borrowing costs.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) signed legislation on Earth Day Monday banning single-use plastic bags in New York, making the Empire State the third in the nation to pass such a law.
New Jersey workers can’t be fired if they flunk a drug test because they are medical marijuana patients, a state appeals court has ruled.
The bill also would create a standardized "threat assessment" tool for schools to keep records of students they feel may pose a "behavioral threat" to themselves or others.
Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed Monday scientifically challenged legislation that would require doctors to tell women taking an abortion pill that the medication's effects can be reversed.
The highly contested and litigated controversy hinges on the contents of five tapes of recorded phone conversations inside the South Bend police department and allegations that the tapes contain racist comments made by a group of officers about former Police Chief Darryl Boykins, who is black.
Oregon is one of 20 states and the District of Columbia that challenged the Trump administration's changes to the Title X family planning program in U.S. District Court in Oregon, along with Planned Parenthood affiliates and the American Medical Association.
McKean who was elected to the Iowa House in 1978, said there was no single issue that precipitated his move, but cited the election of President Donald Trump in 2016 and a Republican Party he found "very changed."
"People have asked me to give this some serious thought, and I think I owe it to them to give it serious consideration," Gov. Larry Hogan said of challenging Trump.
It is a politically charged dispute over how to conduct the once-a-decade count of the U.S. population, and the justices sounded sharply split along familiar ideological lines.
In California, where the soda industry spends millions on lobbying, a bill to tax sugary drinks has been shelved. Lawmakers in four other states proposed one this year.
About one in five Americans now lack regular access to local media coverage. Studies show this is bad for politics, municipal debt -- and even the environment.
Washington state Sen. Maureen Walsh, a Republican, in response to a bill that would require nurses to get breaks and protect them against mandatory overtime. Her comments sparked online outrage among nurses nationwide.
The population experiences homelessness at disproportionate rates.
Under current New Hampshire law, registered voters must only prove “domicile” rather than permanent residency, according to CNN.
The bill won’t require schools to teach the material, but will add it as an encouraged curriculum item for middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools. T
The 18.1 million hours of overtime recorded last year by the state's workforce marked a 3.4 percent increase in overtime pay — $25.7 million — from 2017.
The footage, widely shared through social media, has drawn a public outcry. It shows two deputies take a boy down, bang his forehead into the pavement and repeatedly punch him in the head.
In Texas, the HHSC uses an automated system to detect income changes in households with children on Medicaid several times a year.
Renewable energy was a centerpiece of Sisolak's 2018 campaign for governor in which he touted solar projects undertaken during his tenure as chairman of the Clark County Commission.
A handful of states, cities and counties are experimenting with ways to house former inmates while protecting the public.
Increase in the number of paid firefighters since the 1980s even though the number of overall firefighters dropped 5 percent. With fewer volunteer firefighters, departments have had to hire more paid ones.
Connecticut state Sen. Dennis Bradley, a Democrat who introduced a bill that would require new publicly-accessible buildings to have diaper-changing tables accessible to men and women. New York passed a similar law this year, which was the first of its kind in the country.
State and local officials are striking long-term deals with private companies to upgrade airports, college campuses and prisons.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) says he’s likely to sign off on a bill that would abolish Columbus Day from the list of state holidays and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day.
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