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Tax incentives aren't always the best way to lure businesses. Many are simply going where the talent is.
Boulder County, Colo., pioneered the movement. What can others learn from their experience?
The inability of most rural places to recover from the economic downturn is fueling political and social problems around the nation.
Officials in Maryland's Montgomery County gave unionized workers — and themselves — big raises. Now they can't afford them.
With more comprehensive information at their fingertips, public leaders could better focus the resources they have.
Frontier Town was the lifeblood of North Hudson, N.Y.'s economy. Now, like much of the town, it's empty.
In a small but growing number of states, expectant inmates are getting help dealing with the trauma of giving birth and then having to say goodbye.
Palo Alto’s city manager wants governments to rip up the IT rule book to make better investments.
Maybe, but the stigma of mental health problems keeps public officials from talking about it.
Chicago and many other municipalities are focusing on reforming the rigid and inconsistent rules of procurement.
Several factors are behind the drastic differences in funding.
Republicans have been losing the key demographics’ support since 2000. Democrats hope Donald Trump will keep that trend going.
Chris Sununu's rivals for the Republican nomination for governor assailed his vote for a Planned Parenthood contract, in one of a few heated exchanges during a debate Wednesday.
The clock hit 2 a.m. Wednesday, and lo and behold, bartenders were still serving drinks at the Bank and Bourbon restaurant inside the swanky Loews Philadelphia Hotel in Center City.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has been tapped as the national chairman of the super PAC dedicated to electing Donald Trump as president.
Alabama Supreme Court Justices have found Sumter County Sheriff Tyrone Clark guilty of willful neglect of duty and corruption in office.
A state law that capped unemployment benefits for laid off workers at 13 weeks has been found unconstitutional by the Missouri Supreme Court.
A major rating agency on Tuesday downgraded Kansas’ credit rating for the second time in two years because of the state’s budget problems.
The governor’s office on Tuesday announced a number of recent bill signings by Gov. Pat McCrory, including a statewide district for five low-performing schools that is meant to improve student proficiency.
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The Major League Baseball team wants a big break on property taxes. Will they win?
The Atlanta mayor’s recent and abrupt termination of two agency leaders left many shocked.
Conservatives and liberals are teaming up to restrict or ban the laws that let officers seize billions of dollars a year from people who haven’t been convicted or, sometimes, even charged with a crime.
In an era of tight budgets and slow revenue growth, there’s pressure on legislators to be open and honest about what states can and can’t afford.
Blue Lives Matter bills that would increase the penalties for attacking police are popping up in states and Congress.
Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray in a downtown courtroom on Wednesday morning, concluding one of the most high-profile criminal cases in Baltimore history.
When Clifton Hilton decided to quit drinking this month, he called a residential drug and alcohol detoxification center in this coastal Maine city on a Friday afternoon and was told a bed was available for him.
Death and infertility were just two of the risks a doctor described to Kryston Skinner when she chose to have an abortion last year.
A group that wants to end marijuana prohibition, and to have pot be regulated like alcohol, has endorsed conservative Republican Frank Edelblut and liberal Democrat Steve Marchand for governor.
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