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The weakest link in any local voting system is that one county clerk who’s been on the job for three days and opens up an email file that could take down the whole system.
The development of more-sophisticated software packages is a boon for forensic investigators.
Leading Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker was called a "liar" and a "fraud" by two rivals as the billionaire businessman's ties to secret offshore shell companies became the focus of the final forum of the campaign Wednesday night.
Oklahoma plans to start carrying out executions with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used in the U.S. but that some states have already approved amid difficulties with lethal injections.
Of the cities studied, only in New Orleans did white students travel farther than their black peers.
The teams involved in this year's City Accelerator program met recently to discuss how they could improve the representation of minority-owned businesses in government contracts.
Austin Mayor Steve Adler and several other city leaders discuss their experience at this year's South by Southwest conference.
The White House indicated that it may sue other states with policies similar to California's. Does it have a case anywhere else?
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, in 1993, on his "shouting match" over welfare funds for disabled legal immigrants with the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
The president doesn't want the federal government to help fund public radio and TV stations anymore. Such cuts could exacerbate the already sharp decline in coverage of state capitols and city halls.
Increase in new houses built in wildfire-prone areas in Southern California between 1990 and 2000. That's double the U.S. housing growth rate during that time. Last year, wildfires in the state killed almost 50 people and destroyed more than 10,000 structures.
The first major bipartisan banking bill since Dodd-Frank has some potential pluses and minuses for states and localities.
Motivated by education cuts and a nationwide spirit of activism, dozens of teachers are running for legislative seats across the country.
It's about to happen on a large scale along our coasts, and governments need to be working to make the most of it.
With the U.S. Supreme Court weeks away from hearing arguments in a landmark case on online sales taxes, several states are readying laws that would allow them to begin collecting millions of dollars almost immediately if the court rules in their favor.
Fort Lauderdale has elected its first openly gay mayor.
Low-spending school districts in Wisconsin will be allowed to increase property taxes without voter approval under a measure signed into law Monday by Gov. Scott Walker.
Republican Shane Reeves has won a special election to fill a vacant seat in the Tennessee Senate.
On average, female doctors made $105,000 less than male doctors last year, and the gender pay gap actually increased.
In a turnaround that caught many by surprise, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday signed a bill creating a public financing program for local campaigns — and said she would fund it in her upcoming budget.
President Trump saw just what he wanted to see on his first visit to California as president on Tuesday -- physical evidence of the "big, beautiful wall" separating the United States and Mexico that was the central promise of his campaign -- yet steered clear of the resistance to his presidency that has come to define the state.
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that most of Texas' "sanctuary cities" law can remain in effect while the legal battle continues in a lower district court, a major victory for the state.
Washington state won’t be enacting the nation’s first tax on greenhouse gas emissions this year. But the idea has grown more popular in the states since President Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's one-time top adviser, Joseph Percoco, has been convicted of corruption charges by a Manhattan federal court jury on its eighth day of deliberations.
Date that Oklahoma's largest teacher union set to strike if their demands aren't met. It would be the second statewide teachers' strike in the country this year.
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