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Castro has been getting ready for a potential run for nearly two years, traveling the country to support midterm candidates and doling out contributions through his Opportunity First PAC.
The legal battle over making the disciplinary records public has been raging for years, even before the death of Eric Garner in police custody in 2014 made the issue of transparency more urgent.
As of Tuesday afternoon, a day after Google announced the number of users whose personal information was exposed, the Rhode Island pension fund owned 37,000 shares in Google, now traded as Alphabet shares, worth about $40 million, said Evan England, a spokesman for Magaziner.
The U.S. Justice Department sued Washington state Monday alleging that a law approved by the Legislature to make it easier for ill Hanford workers to get compensation discriminates against the federal government and its Energy Department contractors.
A Florida state panel reviewing the Parkland shooting unveiled a draft report Wednesday chronicling lapses by Broward County agencies and calling for a statewide overhaul of school security measures.
Cities that have been through a disaster learn one important lesson: “Nature wins.”
Urban heat islands threaten public health. Dallas is turning to a smart growth strategy -- and lots of trees -- to deal with the problem.
Our schools don't take the needs of all students into account. New tools can help in crafting policies that engage everyone.
More and more, government must deal with the mountains of things that overflow from our houses and garages. Better policies could help.
Title, and instruction, of a worksheet distributed to students at a high school 10 minutes from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, where Cruz killed 17 people in February. The assignment had questions about the death penalty based on a New York Times articles with the same title.
Increase in homes placed under contract in the Crystal City, Va., area from last November to this November, the month that Amazon announced it would build a new headquarters there.
In the states holding post-election, pre-inauguration sessions this year, Republican legislators are passing sweeping bills on a wide range of issues -- some that weaken laws just approved by voters.
In her resignation letter, the Philadelphia Democrat highlighted the words of the judge who last month sentenced her to 23-months of probation, noting that he had expressed serious concerns about the undercover sting investigation that led to her political downfall.
A judge on Monday granted a request from downtown business owners to stop a city-run homeless camp from moving forward — but only after the camp opened and dozens moved in.
Coral Glades High School pulled a quiz Friday entitled "Does Nikolas Cruz Deserve to Die?" The quiz was based on material from an article with the same title in the October edition of The New York Times Upfront magazine.
Virginia does such a poor job of supervising local foster care programs that the state doesn’t have a list of foster parents currently in the system, according to a new legislative study.
The new law has also come under attack from a coalition of bail industry groups, which see it as an existential threat to their industry and last month submitted more than enough signatures needed for a statewide referendum on the law in 2020.
Ricardo Rosselló said the new law will improve the island’s investment climate, while providing tax cuts for residents and businesses.
Fewer people are living in Pittsburgh — 95,000 fewer than in 2000. But the remaining residents are growing wealthier even as the Steel City shrinks: Income per capita is up 24 percent during the same period.
Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday defended several measures included in lame-duck bills Republicans passed last week that would strip the incoming governor and attorney general of some of their powers, while saying he is considering at least one line-item veto.
Long before the Camp Fire raced through Northern California, claiming at least 85 lives and all but erasing the Gold Rush town of Paradise, state law required the three big power monopolies to file detailed strategies to prevent wildfires.
Good morning from Augusta, where it just got easier to post comments on the governor's Facebook page. The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine has settled its First Amendment lawsuit against Gov. Paul LePage, whom the group said unconstitutionally censored comments on his Facebook page.
Shawn Fleek, a spokesperson for OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, which helped the state rewrite the law to lower the penalty for fare evasion.
Employees accidentally invited to a potluck hosted by Utah's Department of Corrections. The evite was only meant for 80 people, but a technology glitch sent it to almost the entire state workforce.
When it comes to procurement spending, there is an opportunity to strengthen cities by connecting more effectively with their diverse business population.
More than half of California’s nursing homes are asking to be exempted from new state regulations that would require them to spend more time directly caring for their patients.
An ambitious young activist is using the local food movement to help break the cycle of incarceration.
Joe Negron’s support for private prisons — and their support of him — had been written about for years. When the Republican from Stuart became Senate president in 2016, the company gave $270,000 to a political committee he controlled. When his wife ran for Congress, Geo shelled out another $100,000 to her losing cause.
Two friends poisoned by the same deadly cocktail; two families, left to suffer and to question who and how and why.
The state’s Democrats had been choosing their presidential nominee by caucus since 2008 in a system similar to Iowa’s. With caucuses, voters gather in place and discuss the candidates, as opposed to a primary, in which voting is done privately like any other election.
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