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The president's war on progressive policies presents a dilemma for almost every big-city mayor in America. But attacking urban areas also carries big risks for the president.
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Against the backdrop of a sharply divided and dysfunctional state government, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner delivered his midterm State of the State address Wednesday saying he and other politicians have a "moral obligation" to fix Illinois.
Gov. Gary Herbert first took office as Utah was climbing out of the Great Recession. He says its economy and high-tech businesses are now creating jobs so fast that the state doesn't have enough qualified people to fill them.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday said he would work to oust Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez if she doesn't fully cooperate with federal immigration officials' requests to hand over jail inmates thought to be undocumented immigrants.
California has banned state-funded travel to Kansas after determining that the Sunflower State is one of four in the nation with laws that it views as discriminatory toward gay people.
It's still going to be "a great day in South Carolina" when state employees answer the phones.
An innovative program to improve infant mortality rates and allow new parents and their babies to get some much-needed sleep will soon launch in New Jersey.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday welcomed federal assistance to help stem the city's violence but rejected the idea of the National Guard patrolling Chicago as "antithetical" to the trust he's trying to build in law enforcement.
From New York and Boston to Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco, officials representing the country's largest so-called "sanctuary cities" denounced President Donald Trump's "crackdown" on communities that shield undocumented immigrants from deportation.
President Donald Trump directed federal workers Wednesday to start building a border wall and begin punishing so-called sanctuary cities.
Several state legislators recently resigned, saying they want to spend more time with their families -- and they seem to mean it.
Almost every time localities attempt to regulate the oil industry, courts or legislatures stop them.
Visual illustrations can give meaning to overwhelming emissions numbers.
The research is exhaustive and yet simultaneously scarce. In some cases, it's even contradictory.
Republicans in one state are already gearing up for an NFL star to run for governor.
Traditional public procurement processes don't work in an era of startups and rapid technological change.
Few governments have succession plans in place. The ones that do are seeing some positive results.
Rep. Chris Corley, indicted on criminal domestic violence charges for beating his wife, resigned from his seat Tuesday as a resolution that called for his expulsion was about to hit the floor.
President Donald Trump’s administration made explicit this weekend its commitment to an old GOP strategy for managing Medicaid, the federal-state insurance plan that covers low-income people — turning control of the program to states and capping what the federal government spends on it each year.
Gov. Charlie Baker announced in his State of the Commonwealth address Tuesday night that he will be looking to the Springfield schools as a model for how to assist struggling schools around the state.
By the time his brief but blustery State of the State speech ended on Tuesday, it was clear that California Gov. Jerry Brown had offered his most sweeping rebuke to date of President Donald Trump and the new leadership of Congress.
President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night about Chicago's violence, saying he will "send in the Feds!" if the city "doesn't fix the horrible 'carnage' going on."
The Trump administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to stop issuing grants and contracts, throwing agency programs into a state of uncertainty as budgets and priorities are reviewed.
New Mexico has a unique program that combines behavioral economics and predictive analytics.
Success in public life is often defined by winning elections instead of making positive change.
Staff and budget shortages are mostly to blame.
Much of what the new administration wants to change was built by Lyndon B. Johnson.
Instead of building expensive roads, we should be building housing that limits how far people have to drive in the first place.
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