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We bet Taylor Swift was over the moon when she got her jury duty summons in the mail.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry's is taking the Texas two-step to Dancing with the Stars, according to ET Online.
A former top executive of RightNow Technologies, the Bozeman company founded by Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte, said her pick for governor is incumbent Democrat, Steve Bullock.
The city of Washington, D.C. is fighting Donald Trump's legal drive to cut his tax bills for the luxury hotel he's set to open in the Old Post Office Building next month.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Friday used his veto powers on several bills aimed at increasing help for the state's most vulnerable, rejecting measures that would increase wages for workers who care for people with developmental disabilities and expand a child care program for low-income families.
John Bills, the central figure in a massive corruption scheme at City Hall, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for taking up to $2 million in bribes and gifts in return for steering tens of millions of dollars in red light camera contracts to an Arizona company.
As Donald Trump’s running mate, Gov. Mike Pence is campaigning for a man who has promised to penalize companies that ship jobs overseas.
The FBI is warning state elections officials in Maryland and around the country to be on their guard against hackers after the breach of a voter information database in Illinois and an attempted attack in Arizona.
It’s the most littered item in the U.S. -- but it might not be if more places adopted this approach.
Some say police officers are increasingly reluctant to intervene in dangerous situations, fueling a crime wave in cities throughout the nation. Others say that's just not true.
The retailers are deploying a ‘dark store’ strategy that’s hurting cities and counties around the country.
The ambitious public management crusade of the 1990s has made a mark on governments everywhere. But it’s fallen short of some of its goals.
As states increasingly try to tax services like Netflix and yoga, Missouri voters have decided to keep that from ever happening. How that will impact consumers is unclear.
People in remote areas have long lacked access to mental health services. The movement to fix that is showing signs of life.
Every 20 years, the United Nations has a conference to discuss the future of cities. So far, it appears almost no mayors from America will attend.
The water crisis in Michigan highlighted major problems with not just federal regulations but the way localities enforce them. That's all likely to change soon.
Some arrive on their own, worried about what was really in that bag of heroin. Some are carried in, slumped between two friends.
More than a year ago, civil rights and fair housing activists cheered when the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a lawsuit over housing segregation in Texas to go forward.
Many back-to-school shoppers used to be able to count on sales tax holidays at this time of year. But more states are disappointing them by rejecting or cutting back on the small tax breaks, as they seek more and steadier revenue to keep budgets balanced.
The federal judge who will preside over one of the trials challenging House Bill 2 issued a ruling on Friday that blocks the University of North California system from enforcing the bathroom portion of the controversial law for three transgender residents who have challenged it.
For the nearly two out of three American citizens who live in cities, life could be about to improve – or at least get a little easier for their mayors.
Millions of workers struggle to save for retirement in part because it isn’t easy enough to open an account or to have the money automatically deducted from their paychecks. But they could soon find themselves with more options.
Because the incentives for academic research are misaligned, it has little impact on the real world of public administration and policy.
It's a major expansion from a Feb. 16 advisory that limited such screening to areas with active Zika virus transmission.
Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden said Thursday about half the people who took on water lived in areas where residents aren't required by lenders to buy flood insurance. Many places experienced flooding that never had before.
Environmental rights groups are focusing efforts on a legal challenge to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a partially constructed oil line that has drawn thousands of Native American protesters to North Dakota in recent days.
When state lawmakers passed a new drunken driving law for people under the drinking age, they didn't realize that the change would make Tennessee the only state to run afoul of federal zero-tolerance standards.
The first handful of states have released approved 2017 rates for people who buy health insurance on their own and the results so far are consistent with what many expected: There are significant increases in premiums for next year.
The state will construct a $137.2-million overpass that will route car and truck traffic above the country's second-busiest passenger rail corridor.
The state was holding a record-setting $1 billion general treasury cash surplus when it closed the books on last fiscal year, an extraordinary sum that likely will alter the course of contract negotiations as the state and counties begin a new round of bargaining with Hawaii's public worker unions.
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