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The courts and Congress have done a lot of damage to their power to act collectively. State and local policymakers could give them a fairer shake.
The story of the iconic race offers a good lesson in how to make room for grand civic ideas.
They need to be nimbler than ever, looking for better ways to leverage local talent and institutions to ensure that their residents are the real winners.
Saving money isn't the point. The conversation should be about government effectiveness and positive outcomes.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, one of the many Democrats being floated as a possible candidate for president in 2020.
Average monthly tax revenue that North Dakota has received from the Dakota Access Pipeline.
New data shows migration patterns between counties. View updated figures for your jurisdiction.
With no end to the epidemic in sight, the feds are helping some states treat more addicts.
More and more, innovative companies that make things want to be in the city. Their needs are different from those of yesterday's manufacturers.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Gov. Charlie Baker has unveiled what he's calling a "first-in-the-nation set of educational core principles" for social workers on the front lines of the battle against opioid abuse, which has claimed thousands of lives in Massachusetts.
President Donald Trump is trying to do with the stroke of a pen what Republicans in Congress could not — bring about the end of the Obamacare markets.
A series of deadly California wildfires have burned through some 170,000 acres statewide, but heavy smoke from the disaster zones drifted farther still as pesky particles of dust, ash and soot entered the lungs of residents nearly 100 miles away.
Larry Marsh has a history of mental illness and drug addiction. Homeless, he has no place to go. The police in this city have arrested or cited him more than 270 times for trespassing. In December, they got him four times in one day.
In a sweeping victory for the growing number of Kentucky relatives providing free foster care for children, Kentucky must begin paying them — many, grandparents struggling with the costs — the same as they do licensed foster families.
California's health exchange said Wednesday it has ordered insurers to add a surcharge to certain policies next year because the Trump administration has yet to commit to paying a key set of consumer subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
On the surface, Sara Erin Martin would have seemed well qualified to oversee troubled teens at the Okeechobee Youth Development Center. For three years, she'd worked as a mental health technician at a state psychiatric hospital for adult inmates whose mental illnesses or intellectual disabilities rendered them unfit to be tried or punished.
During the five years Tony Price roamed the streets and dozed in doorways, the emergency rooms of Sacramento’s hospitals were a regular place for him to sleep off a hard day’s drinking.
Massachusetts is deciding whether to keep marijuana tax revenue from anti-pot municipalities, stirring a debate that some states have already settled and others may face in the future.
Maximum time period the city of Denver will offer rent and utility assistance to low- and moderate-income residents facing potential eviction or loss of a home. The new program starts in November.
Elissa Bassler, CEO of the Illinois Public Health Institute, after Cook County, Ill., voted this week to repeal its soda tax -- only two months after it took effect.
The party will likely gain power in New Jersey next month, but holding onto the governor's office in Virginia is proving more challenging.
Lots of cities want to increase their outreach to women- and minority-owned businesses. Often, that means taking a look at the best programs in other jurisdictions.
The allegations were straight out of Oliver Twist: Teens said there were maggots in the food -- and barely enough of it. The youths wore threadbare and filthy clothing. They lacked soap, toothpaste, deodorant, socks. The medical care was lousy, toilets overflowed and the buildings were crumbling. Officers choked and punched them.
By law, Chris Christie can't seek a third consecutive term as governor of New Jersey.
Two Baltimore police officers have accepted "minor disciplinary action" for their involvement in the 2015 arrest of Freddie Gray rather than argue their cases before departmental trial boards, as they had been scheduled to do, a police union attorney confirmed Tuesday.
An Oklahoma County judge on Friday threw out a law restricting medication abortions for the second time, again finding it unconstitutional.
The Cook County pop tax is headed for repeal after commissioners overwhelmingly signaled their intent to do away with it, marking a big win for soda companies and store owners after both sides spent millions of dollars to sway public opinion on the issue.
Thousands of firefighters fought the aggressive march of wind-whipped wildfires that raged out of control Tuesday in Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Yuba counties -- and the death toll rose to 17 as authorities began the grim task of excavating for bodies amid up to 3,000 ruined homes and businesses.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dropped one of two challenges it was considering to President Donald Trump’s travel ban policy, declaring moot a lawsuit over Trump’s attempt to block issuance of visas to citizens of six majority-Muslim countries.
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