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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.
U.S. Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, reacting to the news that the Democratic National Committee selected Milwaukee to host the party's 2020 national convention. In the last presidential election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton did not visit Wisconsin.
After making racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic comments, elected officials often stay in office, either by apologizing or attacking their opponents. But public servants may have a harder time keeping their jobs.
Since Freddie Gray’s death in 2015, violent crime has spiked to levels unseen for a quarter century.
Creating more inclusive and accessible cities was the focus for one panel of experts during a morning panel at South by Southwest in Austin March 8.
At the start of 2019, more than a quarter of Vermonters lived without service that meets the federal government's definition of broadband: at least 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload speeds.
New York lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill that would allow children as young as 14 to get vaccinated without their parents' consent.
It’s the first time that either chamber of Congress has passed a measure endorsing D.C. statehood.
Infectious diseases — some that ravaged populations in the Middle Ages — are resurging in California and around the country, and are hitting homeless populations especially hard.
The new inquiry, by the office of the attorney general, Letitia James, was prompted by the congressional testimony last month of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, the person briefed on the subpoenas said.
Milwaukee will host the Democratic National Convention in 2020, bringing a trove of tourism dollars to Wisconsin while showcasing one of the swing states likely to decide the presidency.
A Colorado agency is using the approach in an unusual way: to orchestrate the efforts of service-delivery partners.
In many cities, new homes are popping up twice as fast as normal.
The state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corp is building rail cars for some of America's biggest cities, prompting cybersecurity concerns and bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate.
Fargo, North Dakota’s most populous city, faces the threat of flooding nearly every spring. It’s taken a lot of creativity and cooperation to agree on a solution.
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