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It's obsolete and costs taxpayers billions, yet its ridership and productivity continue to decline.
The total overall pay raise Arizona teachers will be receiving over a two-year period. Teachers in the state have walked out of class all week to protest low pay and low school funding. Late Wednesday night into early Thursday morning, the state legislature finally approved a pay raise deal for some (though not all) teachers. Gov. Doug Ducey signed the deal right away. The deal did not provide for new education funding or raises for non-instructional school staff, frustrating teachers. But most will reportedly end the strike to avoid jeopardizing public support.
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, also the current Georgia secretary of state. Kemp ran an ad in which he points a gun at a teenage boy who's interested in one of his daughters. The ad caused backlash, even among some gun owners. Others thought Kemp was simply being playful in highlighting his pro-gun stance and his protectiveness over his daughters. So far, Kemp has refused to apologize for or back away from the ad.
Arizona lawmakers pulled an all-nighter to enact a budget Thursday that provides big raises for many of the state's striking teachers, and Gov. Doug Ducey signed the teacher funding part while the House continued debating the rest of the state's $10.4 billion budget plan.
The fired executive director of the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System was charged Tuesday with seven felony counts stemming from allegations he disguised personal vacations as business trips.
Nebraska's prisons director doesn't want to talk publicly about his department's lethal injection protocol — how he developed it or where he got the drugs to carry out the death penalty intended, so far, for two condemned prisoners.
The Motor City still has massive debt and pension obligations. Remaining independent will involve a precarious balancing act.
A federal judge forcefully slapped down North Dakota’s efforts to fight his ruling that loosened the state’s voter identification law Monday.
Political candidates have long appeared with guns in campaign ads — holding guns, firing guns, and even assembling guns blindfolded. Earlier this month, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Hunter Hill aired an ad showing him loading an assault rifle. The video title? “Liberals won’t like this.”
Gov. Eric Greitens ran an off-the-books political campaign as early as 2014, took a charity donor list to raise campaign funds and ultimately lied about that list in a signed statement to the state's ethics commission, according to documents and testimony from six of his former employees.
Arizona's historic #RedForEd teacher walkout will stretch to a sixth school day, as Arizona Educators United organizers urged teachers to return to the Capitol Thursday amid unresolved budget discussions.
Texas Attorney General in a news release about his lawsuit against the Trump administration to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects unauthorized immigrants who came to this country as children.
Garcetti, who won reelection as mayor of Los Angeles last year, has made no secret of his presidential ambitions. In an interview, he suggested a mayor would be more pragmatic and "decent" than President Trump.
The percentage of dockless shared bikes on the street, as compared to traditional station-based shared bikes. The introduction of dockless bikes into several cities last year more than doubled the number of shared bikes on the street, from 42,000 in 2016 to 100,000 in 2017.
In an attempt to lower health-care costs, Massachusetts is seeking to exclude certain drugs from its Medicaid program. It's a bold step, experts say, that will not only invite imitation but also lawsuits.
In races for governor around the country, the Democrats' preferred candidates are having to fend off attacks from progressive insurgents.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed two bills supporting immigrants living in Oregon at the annual May Day rally Tuesday.
The city emerged from state oversight Monday in a historic milestone that ends the last vestige of Detroit’s bankruptcy and marks the first time in four decades that the city has full control of government operations.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed a $28.9 billion state budget into law.
Nashvillians resoundingly defeated a controversial plan that would have raised four taxes to fund a transit system anchored by light trail, voting against the historic referendum by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.
The Trump administration on Tuesday exempted most of southeast Wisconsin from the latest federal limits on lung-damaging smog pollution, delivering a political victory to Gov. Scott Walker as he makes a new Foxconn Technology Group factory the centerpiece of his re-election campaign.
Leading a seven-state coalition, Texas will sue the federal government to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects unauthorized immigrants who came to the country as children, Attorney General Ken Paxton's office announced Tuesday.
Abdul Khadir Muhammad, a representative for Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, at an event organized to defend D.C. councilmember Trayon White. White has been under fire for the last month over anti-Semitic comments he made on his Facebook page, promulgating conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the weather. Muhammad's comments resulted in the resignation of a mayoral appointee named Joshua Lopez, who organized the event where Muhammad spoke. Lopez held the speakerphone as Muhammad called councilwoman Elissa Silverman a "fake jew." He says he did not ask Muhammad to leave because he wanted to avoid a physical altercation.
The median home price in previously redlined neighborhoods as of 2017. This is two-and-one-half times less than the median home price in the neighborhoods favored by this 1930s federal lending policy.
In their first year, dockless bike-share services helped double the number of shared bikes on the street. But those bikes are barely used, compared to station-based cycles.
Republicans can take some comfort that their state legislative dominance is unlikely to evaporate in a single election cycle.
The ransom hackers' demand is typically much smaller than what it costs governments to respond.
Federal efforts to reduce wasteful spending haven't achieved much. It's an opportunity for states to innovate.
Less than a week after a conservative think tank sued Austin over the city's paid sick leave ordinance, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has thrown the state's support behind the suit, calling the ordinance "unlawful."
Add Minnesota to the growing list of states that will no longer tolerate pet owners trying to pass off their furry or feathered friends as service animals when they have never received any such training
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