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As states consider following Tennessee’s footsteps, they’ll be closely watching its experience.
These are some of the nation’s most surprising, unique and out-of-the-way spots where people cast their ballots.
Several governors are using nonprofits to get themselves elected and promote their agendas once in office -- without ever having to disclose where the money came from.
The laws are meant to make it easier for ex-felons to get hired. But they're having the opposite impact on some people who don't even have a criminal history.
Four contests are competitive, giving Republicans a chance to flip three seats.
Gov. Paul LePage said he has been keeping a binder of photos to prove that most of the drug dealers arrested in Maine are blacks or Hispanics, but people of those races account for only 40 percent of the photos in the binder.
It's easy for politicians to set goals for their cities. It's far, far harder to achieve them.
Chicago Public Schools' financial reputation took another hit from a major Wall Street credit ratings agency on Monday.
One morning in September 2014, when Jahnira Jones had just started seventh grade at Richard Allen Prep Charter School, her after-school plans weighed on her mind.
Gov. Sam Brownback’s advisory council pulled the plug on a quarterly report developed to assure timely analysis of the administration’s economic policies.
A Cincinnati appeals court Friday ruled that the process used by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to flag inactive voters for possible purging from the registration rolls violates the National Voting Rights Act.
'Overlapping' is often ignored, resulting in misleading assumptions about government liabilities.
The White House just released a report on the future of artificial intelligence. Some governments are already using A.I., but it could have a far wider impact.
If the District of Columbia’s transit system was a public-private partnership, some say it wouldn't be falling apart right now.
Whether it's prisons in Idaho or pensions in Michigan, several states are moving their outsourced services back in-house.
There are many questions that need to be answered before reducing Americans' beloved car space.
As the first governor on the job in almost half a century, either one of them will present new opportunities for the White House.
The stadiums that cities invest in often end up losing money. There’s another, more profitable option: music festivals.
The federal government told states to take a backseat. While some will likely listen, others may push their plans full speed ahead anyway.
Portland commissioners will designate 600 city bathrooms as "all-user" on Friday. They will replace "male" and "female" signs on single-occupancy restrooms with signs that show a toilet.
The Missouri Supreme Court issued this week a set of minimum standards for municipal courts, a long-awaited response to charges that municipal courts in the St. Louis area are unconstitutional debtors' prisons that routinely violate the rights of the poor.
A key member of the Michigan Attorney General's team that has been tasked with investigating the Flint water crisis has resigned from his role after he was arrested Saturday night in Wayne County on suspicion of drunken driving, according to a news release from the Attorney General's Office.
Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott will sell his share of DuBois Construction if he is elected governor, he said on Saturday.
Can states save money on increasingly expensive prescriptions for Medicaid patients by setting prices based not on drugmakers’ wishes, but on how well the medicines control, contain or cure disease?
Many people take for granted the addition of fluoride into public drinking water systems that aims to prevent tooth decay.
The Obama administration Monday is calling on cities and counties to rethink their zoning laws, saying that antiquated rules on construction, housing and land use are contributing to high rents and income inequality, and dragging down the U.S. economy as a whole.
It doesn't help win elections, but confronting the big public challenges requires a sustained effort over many years.
Legislation it passed a decade ago has produced significant gains without wrecking the state's economy. A new law holds promise for accelerating those gains.
As a new survey shows, they're not on the same page with many of their constituents. There needs to be more direct contact.
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