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Climate change discussions must not ignore the impacts that local governments and extreme weather have on one another.
We often use it in ways not intended. Most of the time, that’s a good thing.
Local governments are using internet surveys to better gauge residents’ needs.
A decade after the Libor scandal, a new approach to interest rates could help U.S. states and cities -- if they change their thinking.
The “theory of constraints” can help governments address the core of practically any problem.
They take mixed-use development to an extreme with buildings that residents may never need to leave.
Under the new policy, each prison is coming up with a plan to provide crafts that could include origami, making bookmarks and other art projects.
Citing a “serious and complex family situation,” Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski announced Monday that she won’t run for re-election in 2019, leaving a wide-open race to fill the city’s top slot.
Under current law, the city's roughly 100 school police officers are allowed to carry their guns while patrolling outside schools before and after class hours. But they are required to store their weapons in a secure location during the school day.
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DeSantis insisted that lawmakers repeal the state's ban on smokable medical marijuana by last Friday, or he would drop the state's appeal of an ongoing lawsuit over the ban.
Abortion opponents trumpeted the bill as a victory for the unborn, but abortion-rights advocates decried the law as unconstitutional, promising to sue the state.
The latest forecast indicates “significant” flooding will likely occur in coming weeks along the Red River, which borders northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota and flows north into Canada.
Ohioans who are covered by the expansion of Medicaid will soon have to get a job, go to school or get an exemption.
The smart city model has been around for years. It's got a lot of learning to do.
Is the strong job market hiding a growing skills gap?
States are starting to address the jurisdictional issues that leave so many of these cases unsolved.
Las Vegas is taking a new, more tolerant approach to helping the homeless.
Pundits keep predicting the religious group's decline as a political force. But they may actually be gaining influence.
The biggest school reform movement in the past decade is taking some hits.
Washington state, which gave Boeing $1 billion over the past four years, has a well-established system to evaluate tax deals. Many governments don't.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, on the ruling that paves the way for Sandy Hook families to subpoena internal documents on how the gun companies have marketed the AR-15, the weapon in many mass shootings.
The representation by a multi-state compact to guarantee that the winner of the national popular vote becomes president. It would only take effect once 270 electoral votes are represented. Twelve states and the District of Columbia have joined the compact so far.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed legislation that delays the state’s new photo voter identification requirement until the 2020 elections.
The ruling paves the way for the families to subpoena internal documents on how the gun companies have marketed the AR-15.
The tense public meeting featured heated back-and-forths between board and community members. As board members announced their "yes" votes, people in the audience shouted "shame."
Officials from the Economic Development Corporation, the agency charged with delivering upon the mayor’s plan, called New York Works, say it is “impractical for the city to track specific jobs created,” in documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Following the lead of Arkansas and Florida, white male conservative lawmakers are spearheading legalization drives in Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee.
The message prompted swift rebuke from the Kansas Republican Party, which directed criticism at Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat who has struggled to find compromise with GOP leaders in the Legislature since taking office in January.
The National Popular Vote Act makes Colorado part of a multi-state compact -- but it only takes effect if and when enough states join to control 270 electoral votes.
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