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Even though it's an election year, these policies and problems are too important and timely for legislatures to ignore.
They rarely collaborate. But Jenni Owen, the policy director for North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, is part of a growing relationship between government and academia.
Key provisions will likely increase states and localities' current debt load and make it more expensive for them to borrow in the future. The bill's impact on supply and demand in the municipal bond market, however, is unclear.
Christopher Mitchell, director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, on how the repeal of net neutrality regulations could hurt the more than 100 cities that have their own broadband networks and are in direct competition with giants like Verizon.
Homeless people in America in 2016, which is a 1 percent increase from the year before and the first time the national count went up since 2010.
Ellen Dunham-Jones, director of the urban design program at Georgia Tech University and a leading authority on suburban evolution.
Age that kids are required to start school in 14 states. In one of them, Indiana, the top education official wants to lower the compulsory school age to 5 years old.
Number of races for governor this year. Republicans have 26 offices to defend, Democrats have nine, and one governor up for reelection is an independent.
State funding for New Year's Eve security in Las Vegas this year, which is almost triple the amount Nevada spent the year before. The increased vigilance follows the October mass shooting in the city that left 58 concertgoers dead.
London Breed, the acting mayor of San Francisco, talking about her predecessor, Ed Lee, who died of a heart attack last week. During a memorial service, she remarked on his celebrity-like status in San Francisco and in China.
Ray Scheppach, a former executive director of the National Governors Association, on the increasing partisanship among governors.
Official death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria. But on Monday, the island's governor ordered a recount because investigations from news outlets have found that the number of fatalities could actually exceed 1,000.
Phil Bredesen joins a group of 16 former governors who have run since 2000. Their campaigns -- failed or otherwise -- offer insight into his chances in 2018.
The Maryland community combined cost-effective technology and data analysis to get its speeding problem under better control.
Tens of thousands of Illinois households aren't receiving federal food stamp benefits leading up to the holidays because of problems with a state computer system.
Gov. Wolf on Monday vetoed a measure passed by the Republican-controlled legislature that would have restricted abortion rights, calling it a "vile assault on women's ability to make their own decisions about their own health care."
In a sit-down interview, State Attorney General Doug Chin told Hawaii News Now he will be running for U.S. Congress.
A federal judge in Philadelphia on Friday temporarily blocked Trump administration rules that would limit women's access to free birth control under the Affordable Care Act.
Puerto Rico is launching an official review of the death count from Hurricane Maria, which devastated this US territory on September 20.
The Republican tax bill, largely written by lawmakers from rural and Southern red states, is about to squeeze urban America.
The Amtrak train that derailed Monday morning on its inaugural trip through a faster railway route was supposed to slow dramatically before entering the curve where the crash occurred.
Congress is set to consider an $81 billion disaster aid package that includes wildfire recovery money for California and other Western states as well as hurricane relief with a price tag reflecting a year of record-setting natural calamities.
Alfred Thomas, the police chief in Charlottesville, Virginia, has announced his retirement on Monday after 27 years of law enforcement service. The decision comes just weeks after the release of a critical review of his department's reaction to a violent white nationalist rally over the summer.
President Trump signed a bill last week that bans Kaspersky Lab software on federal computers. Local governments were initially hesitant to stop using it, but most are now following the feds' lead.
Donations raised by the state of Arizona to build a fence along parts of the border. The lawmaker who started the fund six years ago predicted it would collect $50 million. The last of the money was used earlier this month, but none of it went to building a fence.
Dana Nessel, a Democratic candidate for attorney general in Michigan, in a campaign video posted on Facebook that alludes to the wave of sexual harassment allegations against powerful men in politics and media. She says it's the first time the word "penis" has been uttered in a political ad.
The Republican Party of Texas sued the secretary of state Friday to keep U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold off the 2018 ballot after the congressman accused of sexual harassment said he will not seek reelection.
Complaints have circulated for years that Wilmington smells a lot like cat urine, and the state of North Carolina is finally ready to confirm it's not imaginary.
Power has been restored at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, city officials announced late Sunday night.
A Treasury Department watchdog has identified $3 million in questionable expenses by housing agencies in the District and 18 states that used federal funds to assist homeowners in danger of losing their properties.
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