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Performance-based contracting has been a best practice in big cities for years. Now some mid-sized municipalities are adopting the approach.
Time it would take Harris County, Texas, to acquire the 3,300 or so homes on its priority buyout list. Hurricane Harvey, meanwhile, damaged at least 69,000 properties.
Ohio GOP Gov. John Kasich, when asked about his wife being in favor of abortion rights, which is in contrast to his party's platform.
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“We cannot have 13 million hungry children in the United States of America,” says Dorothy McAuliffe.
After four sleepless days fighting to keep her home dry during Hurricane Harvey, after losing her car, after nearly getting electrocuted by a fallen electric box as she waded through brown muck in what wound up being the third flood to hit her property in three years, Maurine Howard wants out.
California violates freedom of speech by requiring antiabortion "crisis pregnancy centers" to tell patients that the state makes abortions available at little or no cost, a Riverside County judge has ruled, reopening debate over a law that federal courts had upheld.
Fallout from the sexual harassment scandal at the Illinois Capitol continued Wednesday, as a state senator lost his leadership position and top Democrats scrambled to find a leader for the agency tasked with investigating such complaints after letting the job remain vacant for years.
President Trump’s bipartisan commission on the opioid crisis made dozens of final recommendations on Wednesday to combat a deadly addiction epidemic, ranging from creating more drug courts to vastly expanding access to medications that treat addiction, including in jails.
Former Gov. Roy Barnes' law firm will represent Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp in a lawsuit that a national election transparency advocacy group filed to force the state to overhaul its election system.
Virginia has been swamped by fearful images as Tuesday's state election nears: heavily tattooed and handcuffed Latinos staring balefully at the television camera, a mug shot of a convicted pedophile set loose on the state.
Embroiled in a criminal case over her legal residency, state Rep. Daisy Baez resigned from the Florida Legislature on Wednesday, the first step in a deal with prosecutors that will also require her to plead guilty to perjury.
The only jail in Mineral County is closed for business.
There are fewer organizations gauging how citizens feel about their governors. Political experts say it's a problem.
Across the country, prisoners or their families are suing states for heat conditions they argue amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
Oklahoma's money problems represent a larger trend in state government.
Prisoners released early on Wednesday in Louisiana because of a new state law that lets some nonviolent offenders with good behavior shave time off their sentences. The change is expected to drop the prison population by 10 percent and save $264 million over a decade.
Alleged comments from Frank Nucera Jr., who was police chief of Bordentown Township, N.J., at the time. On Monday, he was arrested for federal hate crime and civil rights charges.
A victims' rights advocate on Tuesday publicly accused a state senator of sexual harassment and said her complaint fell on deaf ears at the Capitol for nearly a year.
Former State Treasurer Barbara Hafer was sentenced Tuesday to 36 months of probation for lying to the FBI during a long-running federal pay-to-play investigation of Pennsylvania government.
Purdue Pharma was sued this week by New Jersey and Alaska for alleged deceptive marketing, which the plaintiffs said targeted vulnerable groups like senior citizens and directly contributed to the epidemic levels of opioid abuse.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Monday signed a set of bills to provide $2.3 billion in new revenue for the state and end a four-month impasse with lawmakers over how to pay for the state’s fiscal 2018 budget.
With many teachers among the thousands of residents fleeing Puerto Rico for the mainland after Hurricane Maria, school districts in Florida, Texas and New York say they are working to streamline the certification process in the hopes of adding Puerto Rican teachers to their classrooms. But for many of the teachers, the effort has hardly meant a quick ticket to employment.
Former President Barack Obama has been called for Cook County jury duty -- and plans to serve next month, the county's chief judge said Friday.
In an odd twist, low-income people in about half of U.S. counties will now be able to get a taxpayer-subsidized “Obamacare” policy for free, according to a new study that suggests some actions by President Donald Trump against the health law could backfire.
One week from Election Day, Democrat Ralph Northam’s lead has narrowed to five percentage points in the Virginia governor’s race, with Republican Ed Gillespie closing a motivation gap and consolidating support among conservatives and supporters of President Trump, a new Washington Post-Schar School poll finds.
It's hard to think years or decades into the future in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophe, but planning now can pay big dividends.
Investigators worked overnight to find out what led a lone-wolf terrorist to drive a rented pickup truck Tuesday and careen down a bike path next to the Hudson River, killing eight people, six of them foreign tourists, officials said.
The cost of the Gateway Program, a massive undertaking to add tunnels, replace old bridges and expand Penn Station in New York City. Writer Daniel C. Vock stressed that it would be "one of the most expensive infrastructure ventures in the history of the United States."
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