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In the aftermath of catastrophes like Harvey and Irma, reliable, transparent information can guide a democratic and inclusive rebuilding effort.
Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka hopes so. Right now, the major employers there mostly hire people and buy business supplies and services outside city limits.
"It clearly shows that something is going wrong in that system when a grandmother is raising her hands like she might be shot," says author and professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve.
A joke from Sam Teresi, the mayor of Jamestown, N.Y., where the state is investing millions of dollars to make the birthplace of comedian Lucille Ball a national destination for comedy lovers.
States suing President Trump over his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offered deportation protection to immigrants brought to this country illegally as children.
Angela Paxton, the wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has officially launched a campaign for Texas Senate.
Mandatory evacuations of vast swaths of coastal South Florida began Wednesday as anxious residents continued to watch and wait -- and watch, and wait -- for the massive storm to roll closer.
A group of Democratic-led states is leading a legal challenge to President Trump's planned repeal of a program allowing nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States -- and just as in the court fight over the president's proposed travel ban, the challengers want to use his ethnic broadsides against him.
A key Senate committee Wednesday launched a set of hearings intended to lead to a short-term, bipartisan bill to shore up the troubled individual health insurance market, but a diverse group of state insurance commissioners united around some solutions that were not necessarily on the table.
Clark County commissioners voted unanimously today to ban the possession or advertisement of legal marijuana at McCarran International Airport and other properties overseen by the county's aviation division.
A coalition of parents and public-education advocates gathered enough signatures to let voters decide whether Arizona moves forward with or rejects a massive expansion of the state's school-voucher program.
Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich has joined the legal fight against gerrymandering, the political map-drawing process geared toward creating congressional and statehouse districts that sharply favor one party over the other.
The chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party Tuesday condemned a Facebook post from a Charlotte Republican mayoral candidate who listed one of her qualifications as being "white."
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is threatening to jail wanted people seeking shelter due to Hurricane Irma.
After decades of avoiding the pollution they cause, New York's Suffolk County is finally taking on the issue.
Facebook post by Kimberley Paige Barnette, a candidate in Charlotte, N.C.'s mayoral race.
Predictions for their widespread adoption and the impacts they will have vary wildly. It will be up to government to sort out the issues.
Bringing back the failed strategies of the past is a mistake. Mayors are embracing innovative, forward-looking strategies.
Successful efficiency efforts have several important things in common, as three case studies illustrate.
Politics and finances are largely to blame. But some say it's a trend not worth worrying about.
President Trump's decision to abandon existing protections for young men and women in the United States without legal status drew a sharp rebuke from the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown and other California officials Tuesday, with some suggesting the state take its own extraordinary efforts to keep those immigrants from being deported.
Miami-Dade County plans to order evacuations for Miami Beach and much of the mainland coast in advance of Hurricane Irma's menacing track toward South Florida.
Democrats have been throttled by Republicans in the all-important battle for state legislative chambers the past decade. Now they're trying to turn the tide with the launch of a new super PAC.
Oregon has kicked nearly 55,000 people off its Medicaid program, after the state found they no longer qualified or failed to respond to an eligibility check.
A federal court ruled Tuesday that a weakened Texas voter identification policy used in the 2016 presidential contest can remain in place for upcoming November elections, the latest twist in a years-long court battle over the state's controversial voter ID laws.
California lawmakers Tuesday gave final approval to designating a section of the 134 Freeway as the President Barack H. Obama Highway in honor of the 44th president of the United States.
With insurance premiums rising and national efforts at health reform in turmoil, a group of 50 state bureaucrats whom many voters probably can’t name have considerable power over consumers’ health plans: state insurance commissioners.
Although the disaster spurred federal, state and local authorities to put immigration enforcement on pause, many undocumented people are still fearful and likely to be left behind in the recovery.
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