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The small, rural town of Gifford, S.C., survives with help from just 12 enthusiastic public employees -- most of whom aren't even paid.
Republicans have the governorship and the state House in Iowa, but Democrats have Mike Gronstal, who adheres to the old-fashioned sense that voters elect politicians to work on policy before retreating to their respective partisan corners.
Over the past two decades, corporations have doubled their profits but contributed increasingly less to state revenues. Where is all the money going?
These are the biggest policies and problems that states will confront this year.
Bees are vital to the food we eat, and they’re vanishing. Michigan State University is coordinating efforts to save them.
Roughly 1 in 20 pregnant women use illicit drugs. States are cracking down on the problem with starkly different approaches.
Republicans could strengthen their power in many states this year, but Democrats only have realistic chances in two.
A 17-year-old was shot by Wichita police. Police say he was armed and running toward the police officer who fired. His mother says her son was "unarmed and shot in the back while running." The shooting was captured on camera.
Called Cards Against Urbanity, the game is a twist on the popular and politically incorrect Cards Against Humanity.
Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have given millions to overhaul public education. But their cash has proven to be anything but free money or a remedy to systemic problems.
After voters eased penalties for several common crimes, opponents claim the reforms have led to a crime wave.
The Ohio governor and long-shot presidential candidate would ban gun sales to those on the no-fly list, but he said he worries about banning sales from the larger Terrorism Screening Database because that it would alert people that they are being watched as terrorism suspects.
The growing intensity of natural disasters is a threat to state and local governments’ fiscal stability. How can they protect their finances and the environment?
Massachusetts has begun using data analytics to predict where they might occur.
Everyone talks about taxing the rich to give to the poor, but doing so would only have a small impact. There are ways to have a larger one.
Many states and cities get hung up on low prices and fail to consider a company's performance when deciding whether to contract with them.
Most important, their prospects for survival can teach us about the resiliency of urban areas everywhere.
In some cities, the personality of its residents may play a part in economic success (or failure).
Republican-controlled chamber scheduled a Jan. 12 hearing on whether Kathleen Kane, who is facing criminal charges and whose law license has been suspended, can continue to function as the state's top law-enforcement official.
When lower-income Americans move, it's seen as a result of displacement instead of opportunity. This negative perception needs to change.
Gun rights groups will likely stage their demonstration on Guadalupe Street, adjacent to campus.
In the ideological war over urban planning, anti-transit conservatives are gaining funding and allies.
State insurance exchanges are healthy financially even without the federal funding that ran out this year, a top Obama administration official told a House subcommittee Tuesday.
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a new bid by Texas officials to block Syrian refugees, describing the source of the state's fear of letting in nine more people from the war-torn country as "largely speculative hearsay."
Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to reset how he's handled the most severe crisis of his tenure, giving a determined and at times emotional speech to the City Council on Wednesday in which he pledged to finally end Chicago's entrenched practice of police brutality and apologized for failing to fix the deep-seated issue sooner.
Former D.C. mayor Vincent C. Gray will not be charged after a years-long federal probe into the illegal financing of his 2010 campaign, as prosecutors announced the end of the investigation Wednesday.
The future of affirmative action at public universities appeared in some doubt Wednesday as the Supreme Court justices debated for a second time whether to strike down a race-based admissions policy at the University of Texas.
Almost 14 years ago, the U.S. House of Representatives voted by a huge, bipartisan margin to pass the No Child Left Behind Act, which put the federal government front and center when it came to how K-12 schools measured student performance and fixed struggling schools.
The organization is spending $42 million to help the selected cities improve their performance and services using data-driven decisionmaking.
Much of the talk in Paris is about bringing capital to bear on climate change. That would have a profound effect on our urban economies.
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