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We have to have them, so we might as well make them as productive as possible.
People running for public office fill out a lot of questionnaires for interest groups. The public ought to know what the candidates are saying.
The group's top priority will be preserving the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds, which President Obama wants to reduce for higher earners.
Gov. Susana Martinez on Monday signed into a law a $6.2 billion budget that cuts state government spending from current levels as New Mexico's sagging economy continues to take a hard hit from low oil prices.
Kansas tax receipts fell $53 million short of estimates in February, and Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday immediately announced a $17 million cut to the state's university system.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Tuesday vetoed a proposed law that would have been the first in the country to require transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match the gender listed on their birth certificates.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday to expand a tax on the health insurance industry so that the state doesn't lose $1 billion in federal funding.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to rule on a legal dispute between Governor Christie and New Jersey public labor unions suing over billions of dollars in missed payments to the state pension system.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday sent letters to governors and water regulators across the U.S. promising greater enforcement of rules to protect citizens from lead in drinking water in the wake of the crisis in Flint and urging every state to locate lead water lines as required.
California's system of seizing and spending "unclaimed" cash from banks, mutual funds and defunct businesses has survived a Supreme Court challenge.
A federal judge overrode Gov. Mike Pence's attempt to stop Syrian refugee resettlement in Indiana, issuing a preliminary injunction Monday that the state immediately contested.
Advocates of low-cost housing scored a legal victory Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court left intact a ruling by California's highest court allowing cities and counties to require builders to include a percentage of affordable units in each new development.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on Monday endorsed Donald Trump for president -- and he backed Trump's plan to force Mexico to pay for a border wall.
The Maine Department of Corrections on Monday issued its revised inmate discipline policy that reverses previous practices that prisoners, advocates and lawyers had said were unconstitutional, particularly restrictions on communicating with the outside world.
The layoffs announced Monday by Chicago Public Schools -- 62 workers, 17 of them teachers -- were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teachers Union.
Gov. Scott Walker signed nearly four dozen bills on Monday, including a ban on county executives serving concurrently in the Legislature.
It shows how technology can come to people’s aid -- sometimes faster than government.
It’s time to take elections back from the parties and organizations that have given us the broken system of governance we now have.
These are the top challenges governments will need to address in 2016.
Is anyone trying to balance the fiscal inequities states impose on their localities?
Some of the skeptics are also the people with the most power to make a difference. Ignoring or denying the issue isn’t an option.
New Orleans has been battling an increase in noise complaints ever since outsiders moved there after Hurricane Katrina. Its found a way, though, to keep residents happier and music going.
Cities tend to favor building stadiums and convention centers over investing in education or human services. It's an understandable but troublesome trend.
A gritty blue-collar town in Minnesota reflects the tensions in many places located between cities and suburbs.
Unlike other oil-dependent states, Louisiana has deeper financial issues that began nearly a decade ago after Hurricane Katrina. The legislature is meeting in special session to deal with them.
More people face traffic tickets than criminal charges, but until now, only the latter could be looked up online here.
Poverty in Wisconsin hit its highest level in 30 years during the five-year period ending in 2014, even as the nation's economy was recovering from the Great Recession, according to a trend analysis of U.S. census data just released by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
The Billings Chamber of Commerce announced Friday it's joining a group of trade associations opposed to the federal Clean Power Plan, which seeks to cut carbon emissions from energy producers.
The legislative battle over Birmingham's minimum wage ended Thursday.
A study published Thursday confirmed that the 100,000 tons of methane that flowed out of Aliso Canyon was the largest natural gas leak disaster to be recorded in the United States, and that it doubled the methane emission rate of the entire Los Angeles basin.
