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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.
North Dakota's Doug Burgum is helping to build a presidential library in his state.
The Georgia lawmaker who exposed himself and yelled racial slurs during an episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime series is resigning his seat in the state Legislature, according to House Speaker David Ralston's office.
The Trump administration is resuming Obamacare’s risk adjustment program, just weeks after it abruptly froze billions of dollars in insurer payments citing a court ruling invalidating parts of the program.
California's electric utilities would no longer be automatically liable for wildfire damage caused by the equipment, under a detailed proposal Tuesday from Gov. Jerry Brown.
New Jersey's attorney general immediately halted all municipal prosecutions of marijuana offenses Tuesday, effectively placing on hold thousands of cases across the state that involve possession of the drug while lawmakers continue to debate its legalization.
Montana's Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock on Tuesday said he is suing the Trump administration over its decision to stop collecting information about donors to politically active nonprofit groups.
Gov. Gina Raimondo, if reelected, has pledged to expand the free college tuition program at the Community College of Rhode Island to the state's two four-year colleges at a estimated cost of $35 million.
Nevada voters could soon make history by electing the country’s first female-majority state legislature.
MIT researchers are trying something new to see if they can explain -- if not repair -- the relationship between the public and the government.
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