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Former Maryland Gov. and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley and former Indianapolis Mayor Steven Goldsmith talk about how tech can change the public sector.
At least 95 have closed their doors since 2010, and roughly a quarter of the ones left are at risk of shuttering.
Plus, where renting is gaining in popularity the fastest.
The president's 2020 proposal would slash domestic spending by nearly 10 percent and increase defense spending by 5 percent.
States in the U.S. Climate Alliance, a group committed to upholding the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change. President Trump pulled America out of the agreement, making it one of the world's only countries not participating. Nevada is the latest to join.
New Mexico state Sen. Cliff Pirtle, describing a Colorado town of 750 residents near the state line. He is supporting a bill that would make New Mexico the first in the nation with state-run pot shops.
Many states don’t allow hemp CBD to be sold to the public at all, whether as an oil, pills or mixed into smoothies.
In a statement Sunday night, Councilwoman McElhaney said her son's death represents the "beginning of a new chapter in this reoccurring circle of violence."
Mr. Hughes, a reserved Eastern Shore native whose 1978 Democratic primary victory was one of the great upsets in Maryland political history, led an administration that was widely credited with restoring integrity to state government after an era of rampant political corruption.
The idea for state-run pot shops comes from a trio of GOP state senators who broke with local Republican Party orthodoxy to embrace legal marijuana with a decidedly big-government approach that would have the state directly oversee most sales.
Nevada will join the U.S. Climate Alliance, a group of states and territories committed to the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced.
Former state lawmaker Margy Conditt is "thrilled" a federal appeals court supported a law she jointly sponsored that defunds Planned Parenthood in Ohio.
The governor is weighing "overhauling" the commission, including making a management change, as the state prepares for the upcoming wildfire season.
In codifying its innovative operation into law, New York City has provided a useful guide for other localities.
Single-stream systems have produced stagnating collection rates and soaring costs. Localities need to go back to the dual-stream past and invest in the future.
Cultural activities are already contributing billions of dollars to struggling economies. Government has an important role in nurturing this creativity.
As once-eradicated diseases return, more and more states are debating legislation that would make it harder, or easier, for parents to not vaccinate their kids.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, when announcing this week that he would suspend the death penalty in his state.
Cooling-off period that a Georgia lawmaker proposes before men can buy pornography. Rep. Dar'shun Kendrick's "Testicular Bill of Rights" -- which is a response to a "heartbeat" bill moving through the legislature that would ban abortions often before women first realize they're pregnant -- would ban vasectomies, classify sex without a condom as aggravated assault, require men to pay child support during pregnancy and require men to get their partner's consent to buy Viagra.
Georgia state Rep. Dar'shun Kendrick is floating the idea that if men can legislate women's reproductive rights, women should have a vote on what men do with their bodies.
State health leaders are pressing lawmakers for a one-year reprieve to allow time to overhaul a public health system now facing a financial crisis.
Ten states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational marijuana, and as lawmakers elsewhere consider their own laws, they seem intent on not repeating what they see as other states’ mistakes.
The practice of keeping inmates shackled during childbirth was once common around the United States, but that's gradually been changing after women began speaking out, with 22 states passing laws against it over the past two decades.
So far, physical security measures are garnering the lion’s share of dollars in legislative spending proposals.
"I do not believe that a civilized society can claim to be a leader in the world as long as its government continues to sanction the premeditated and discriminatory execution of its people," Newsom said in a statement accompanying an executive order.
The scheme, which began in 2011, centered around the owner of a for-profit Newport Beach college admissions company that wealthy parents paid to help their children cheat on college entrance exams and to falsify athletic records of students to enable them to secure admission to elite schools.
In the past decade, there was a 43 percent increase in renters over the age of 60. The trend brings with it new challenges -- and benefits -- for cities.
There's a lot that state policymakers could do to move us toward treating it the same as physical health.
Age that teens in New York would be able to get vaccines without their parents' consent under a proposed bill. Seven states, plus the District of Columbia, don't require minors to have parents' permission. The state of New York is currently facing a measles outbreak.
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