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More and more communities are trying it, bringing millions of people into decisions on local spending.
In late September 2011, a lobbyist for United Airlines had some good news for his longtime friend David Samson, then chairman of the powerful Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
A review of the year's State of the City speeches details their top priorities.
More than ever, mayors understand the threats their communities face from inequality, discrimination and violence.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said the island's rescue might simply be a harbinger of things to come on the mainland.
Inside a cramped committee room on the cactus-dotted campus of Arizona’s Capitol, Kelsey Lundy stepped to the podium to detail new legislation and the higher costs it would impose on struggling borrowers.
The long-simmering feud between Eric Greitens and John Brunner, two Republicans seeking the party's nomination for Missouri governor, broke open on a stage at Lindenwood University on Wednesday, with Greitens accusing Brunner of being a campaign saboteur and liar, and Brunner counterattacking over the controversial source of Greitens' single largest campaign contribution.
New failures are piling up among the member-run health insurance co-ops carrying out one of the Affordable Care Act’s most idealistic goals, leaving just seven remaining when the health law’s fourth enrollment season starts in the fall.
Pennsylvania has an annual budget -- nearly nine months sooner than it took last year.
Local and state law enforcement agencies have run roughshod over the First Amendment in dealing with protesters in the wake of Alton Sterling's July 5 shooting death at the hands of Baton Rouge police, Louisiana's leading civil liberties organization and local organizing groups alleged Wednesday in a federal lawsuit.
Police in Arizona may legally search an individual's home or vehicle based solely on the smell of marijuana, even though the drug is legal for medical use, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
There are implications not only for the presidential race but the Indiana governor's election as well.
Ron Smith, president of the Seattle Police Officers' Guild, is resigning amid heavy criticism over a Facebook post about the death of five police officers in Dallas last week.
As hundreds of people demonstrated in downtown Los Angeles against killings by police, the city's Police Commission decided Tuesday that an LAPD officer did not violate the department's deadly force policy last year when he fatally shot an African American woman in a South L.A. alleyway.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will not attend the Republican National Convention as he recovers from severe burns he suffered during a family vacation, according to his office.
Vivian Thorp was a single mother of a 4-year-old daughter when she enrolled in California’s welfare-to-work program in 1999.
A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Utah to continue providing federal funds to the state branch of Planned Parenthood, handing a defeat to Republican Governor Gary Herbert, who had ordered a cutoff last August.
City officials across the country are using the gaming craze to educate and engage with the public -- and have some fun.
Current and historical annual population data for those ages 25 to 54.
Where it exists, it remains popular. But five states have axed it since 2011, and there's a federal push to abolish the option to vote for one party across the ballot.
The department faces serious workforce issues that began long before last week's tragedy. They need to be addressed, and it will be painful.
New data reveals long-term trends about the under-reported topic.
State lawmakers squabbled late Monday over how to plug a revenue gap of more than $1 billion, spurring concerns about a potential spending freeze that could harm schools and nonprofits still reeling from last budget season's impasse.
Illinois is ditching the controversial state PARCC exam for high school students, instead giving 11th-graders a state-paid SAT college entrance exam next spring.
Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill on Monday that will preclude police body camera footage from being a public record in North Carolina.
Many babies born to mothers who are covered by Medicaid are automatically eligible for that coverage during the first year of their lives.
New Jersey’s suburban towns got a big break Monday in the number of affordable housing units that must be built over the next decade, as a state appeals panel overturned a court order that could have added thousands of units to developers’ plans.
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