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One official in Pennsylvania wants to make it easier for municipalities to disincorporate.
New Jersey's Gurbir Grewal, the nation's first Sikh attorney general, talking about the radio hosts who were suspended for calling him "Turban Man."
Facebook will be legally required to end its practice of allowing businesses to block certain groups like blacks, gays and immigrants from viewing ads under an agreement reached with the Washington State Attorney General's Office.
New Jersey 101.5 hosts Dennis Malloy and Judi Franco have been suspended "until further notice" over the duo's derogatory comments about state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
Assault weapons registered in California since a state law took effect last year that requires them to be registered with law enforcement. The same law banned the sale of some assault rifles but allows people to keep the ones they already own.
With the future of Roe v. Wade uncertain, the state is on the verge of repealing its 173-year-old law that criminalizes abortion. Similar efforts are underway in some other states.
The Occupy ICE camp that held ground for five weeks outside the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Southwest Portland is not the first time protesters have camped out for weeks on end in protest of national issues.
After 40 years as a Republican, Lori Stegmann has had a change of heart -- and political party.
An Iowa judge Wednesday issued a temporary injunction barring the state from implementing some provisions of Iowa's new voter ID law.
With Gov. Scott Walker planning to extend a tuition freeze on UWvSystem campuses for another four years if he's re-elected, UW-Stout and UW-Eau Claire officials said Tuesday they hope such a move would be accompanied by an increase in state aid.
It can help policymakers prepare their retirement systems for the next downturn while building long-term sustainability.
The decades-old debate in New Jersey over how to fairly fund public education took another turn Tuesday when Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law the first major revamp of the state’s modern school funding formula since it was enacted in 2008.
After a less-than-flattering portrait of Kingman emerged on Sacha Baron Cohen’s new series, with residents saying black people "aren't welcome" and Muslims create "problems," representatives for the northwestern Arizona city of about 29,000 hit back.
Calling it a "ham-handed" effort to keep young voters from casting ballots, a federal judge Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional an opinion issued by Gov. Rick Scott's administration that barred early-voting sites on college and university campuses.
A federal law has done little to advance transportation fairness for low-income communities. Progress is up to local leaders.
To recover quickly from a major outage, electric utilities should be stockpiling critical equipment. Regulators can help make that happen.
Students who are defrauded by their schools would have a harder time getting their federal loans erased under new rules proposed by the Trump administration Wednesday.
The online retail giant's new relationship with public schools and agencies raises concerns that the company is cornering the marketplace and costing taxpayers more money.
Marketing is especially important for smaller local governments, and states have a role to play.
To shape effective policy and keep their promises, politicians need to focus on outcomes.
There’s a long list of government agencies that have fudged numbers in misleading ways.
Outlying communities and central cities should do more to work together.
It’s not necessarily about traveling far and fast.
The digital currency market is changing so fast that any misstep could be huge.
Announcing the newest round of cities that will engage in the ongoing City Accelerator project.
Two states still allow split-verdicts to send people to prison. That may change soon. But maybe it shouldn't.
Time a DMV worker in California spent sleeping on the job for nearly four years, according to a recent audit. The agency said it could not take disciplinary action because the snoozing had not been properly documented.
Tweet from the account of Wisconsin Republican Rep. Thomas Weatherson. It was quickly deleted, and the state lawmaker said it did not come from him.
They have created fiscal stress for states and municipalities, and exacerbated inequality. A new report offers a simple solution to alleviate those issues.
Dayton, Ohio's Nan Whaley talks to people about policy where they feel most comfortable.
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