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Fall injuries among older adults cost Medicare almost as much as cancer treatment last year.
Planning that doesn't account for technology's exponential impact will be off the mark.
Public administration schools' research doesn't have to be irrelevant. Business schools provide a model.
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A state Supreme Court ruling will require refunds to elected officials and public-safety officers who since 2011 were required to pay more for their pensions, with local governments likely to cover the projected $220 million cost to an already fragile public-pension trust fund.
Homelessness in the U.S. declined over the past year. Even so, there were large increases in several cities, including Los Angeles and Seattle.
Memphis and Nashville cannot legally enforce new civil fines for small amounts of marijuana, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slattery III said in an opinion issued Wednesday.
Republican governors have a surprising message for President Barack Obama: We'll miss you.
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster are contenders for positions in President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet.
Slow growth. Tax cuts. Sound familiar?
A new NASBO report cites a volatile stock market and modest national economic growth for the slowdown.
Author Bill Bishop, who has spent years studying America's urban-rural divide, discusses what it means for politics and progress.
Turnover in the field has reached crisis levels in some places, forcing them to figure out how to hire and keep the right people.
Democratic state Assemblyman John Wisniewski announced Tuesday he is running for governor, hoping to succeeded Gov. Chris Christie, the man whose political career he rocked by spearheading the investigation into the Bridgegate scandal.
State and federal officials plan to unveil a comprehensive strategy to address fentanyl and heroin abuse, prescription opioid misuse and violent crime.
Clay Mayor Beverly Whaling has resigned from her position after her comment on a racist Facebook post about Michelle Obama made national headlines Monday, according to a town council member.
With President-elect Donald Trump promising to crack down on "sanctuary cities" that aren't helping federal authorities apprehend undocumented immigrants, some mayors warn they're ready to do battle with Washington on the issue.
Idaho's Republican electoral college electors have been getting a lot of phone calls both from Idahoans and from other states who are trying to get them to change their vote, and some of the calls are "crossing into what could reasonably be considered harassment," according to the Secretary of State's office.
Putting more fuel-efficient vehicles on the road is universally seen as a good thing, but those gas-sipping hybrids and electric cars crisscrossing Colorado are contributing less and less in terms of the gas tax revenues that pay for badly-needed road and bridge repairs across the state.
State Medicaid Chief John McCarthy, who oversaw Gov. John Kasich's overhaul and expansion of the health-insurance program covering nearly 3 million poor and disabled Ohioans, is resigning.
A top Wall Street credit-rating agency downgraded New Jersey once again on Monday, warning that the state’s fiscal health will deteriorate quickly unless it launches new reforms.
Invoking the historic mistreatment of Native Americans, the Obama administration said Monday it will continue to withhold a final permit for completion of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline while it conducts further analysis of concerns that the project will damage sacred tribal sites and water supplies.
Rep. Kristi Noem will not seek a fifth term to the U.S. House in 2018, she announced Monday, and will instead make a bid to become the first female governor in South Dakota history.
An official at a Clay County agency lost her job Monday after publishing a racist Facebook post criticizing first lady Michelle Obama.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence is embroiled in a legal challenge stemming from his decision to withhold information from a public records request in a case local Democrats say raises the specter of the Indiana governor shielding all of his emails from public view.
Republicans gained power in several states last week, clearing the way for some to more easily restrict abortion and roll back other reforms.
Even with Donald Trump as president, the future of America belongs to the urban laboratories of democracy.
These eight people know that public service isn’t about casting blame. It’s about working together to forge real solutions to real problems.
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