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At the winter meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington this weekend, the lack of proper workforce training was an overarching concern.
Chicago will hold its first round of voting on Tuesday to pick Rahm Emanuel's replacement. Former Clinton administration official Bill Daley is among the frontrunners, but the huge field makes it uncertain who will proceed to the April runoff.
Many of the startups have pulled out of cities in the past year.
“Income share agreements” could lower loan payments and the financial risks of paying for college.
Other places should emulate the state's model.
The amount of missing and unusable public-sector data is stunning.
Automobiles hurt the quality of urban life, but radical change is politically difficult.
Another recession is in the forecast. This time, states seem ready to weather it.
For the most part, it’s a bad idea for governments to copy private-sector trends. But there may be one exception.
Garden State voters may not be able to cast ballots for President Trump in 2020 unless he's prepared to show where he gets his green.
In a last-ditch effort to force a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment during the final week of session, Democratic delegates -- encouraged by advocates -- attempted to finagle a rule change Thursday that goes against a longstanding tradition in the General Assembly.
The Trump administration Friday finalized a regulation intended to push Planned Parenthood out of the Title X federal family planning program, keeping a campaign promise to anti-abortion groups.
Year that South Dakota started violating a federal law that requires Medicaid to cover abortions in cases of rape or incest. It's the only state that hasn't been complying, and Republican Gov. Kristi Noem says there are no plans to change that.
Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson, during a news conference to announce that the "Empire" actor is being charged with a felony for allegedly filing a false police report. Smollett alleges that he was beaten and had a rope placed around his neck while racist and homophobic slurs were yelled. Johnson says there is evidence that Smollett set up the attack.
The principal of an elementary school in the Virginia suburbs of Washington has apologized for a gym class exercise in which pupils were told to act as runaway slaves for Black History Month.
New state laws and regulations in California, Virginia, Arizona, Ohio, Washington, Vermont and Rhode Island require physicians to “co-prescribe” or at least offer naloxone prescriptions when prescribing opioids to patients considered at high risk of overdosing.
Following a four-month investigation, agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested Dale Glen Massad, 68.
Republican lawmakers, in turn, called Evers divisive for insisting on something to which they say they'll never agree: capping a state tax credit for large manufacturers.
The governor of Tennessee has apologized for participating in "Old South" parties while he was in a fraternity at Auburn University, reports say.
Oakland school teachers, nurses, counselors and their supporters rose early Thursday to protest in the first day of a strike for higher pay, smaller class sizes and more support for students.
West Virginia's students will be returning to school today after a two-day statewide teachers strike ended when the West Virginia House decided not to reconsider the state Senate's omnibus education bill.
The state elections board's vote came after four days of testimony about what the board's staff called "a coordinated, unlawful, and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme" in Bladen and Robeson counties.
The lesson from New York City's experience with Amazon: There are smarter ways to attract businesses than just dangling tax breaks.
Detroit's Motor City Match program is a model other cities should emulate.
Protesting teachers likely won't be the only public employees who see pay raises and workplace improvements this year.
Already-faltering negotiations between the Trump administration and California aimed at resolving a dispute over fuel-economy standards have broken down completely, according to a top Democratic lawmaker.
Unlike states, localities are more constrained in their ability to raise revenues. It's creating big budget deficits for some school districts.
States with "trigger" laws that would immediately ban abortion in the event that the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Arkansas is the latest to pass one. The others are Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Jill Duerr Berrick, a professor at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, on the controversial but growing idea of making foster parenting a profession.
Although some lawmakers have bristled at the idea of private companies storing Texans’ personal information in far-flung locations, proponents of the reforms say data security will be at the forefront of any decision they make.
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