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As rights for transgender people are debated across the country, a surprising amount of attention is on where they can go to the bathroom.
A recent audit finds California’s efforts are woefully inadequate. And that’s the good news.
It's risky and wrenching, but nothing is more important for the future of service delivery.
The Obama administration has warned state officials that pushing Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program could put Texas at odds with federal law.
More than a year after a botched 2014 execution, the Arizona Department of Corrections has issued new guidelines that eliminate a controversial drug combination from the lethal-injection protocol, allow witnesses to see the preparation leading up to an execution, and give defense attorneys access to a cellphone in case of an emergency.
A new plan from Gov. Bill Walker's administration to broadly restructure Alaska's finances would convert the Permanent Fund into an endowment-like fund that absorbs oil income and generates billions of dollars in annual revenue for the state's treasury, Attorney General Craig Richards announced Wednesday.
The Chicago City Council on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2016 budget that will hit Chicagoans with more than $755 million in tax and fee increases.
In 1991, amid the AIDS crisis in San Francisco, a former jazz and blues singer named Lynnette Shaw was hired as the intake officer at the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, California's first medical marijuana dispensary.
Count this as one campaign promise that was kept: John Kasich aggressively took on his fellow Republicans in Wednesday night's GOP presidential debate.
Organizations that invest in their workers reap the biggest gains.
The state’s successful civil service reforms offer lessons for other governments.
In their efforts to cultivate entrepreneurship, local policymakers need to be leery of copycat solutions.
Specialized courts that focus on business disputes have been established in at least 27 states.
Paul LePage will, however, continue to block the issuance of $11.5 million in voter-approved conservation bonds until the Legislature approves his proposal to use proceeds from timber harvesting on state-owned lands to fund a heating system conversion program for poor people in the state.
Gov. Greg Abbott criticized Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez in the wake of reports that she planned to free some immigrants processed through the Dallas County jail rather than hand them over to federal authorities.
Many conservatives have long favored supply-side economics. But a new report suggests there is no evidence that income tax cuts lead to economic growth.
Mayor Nutter on Tuesday recommended scrapping the School Reform Commission, which has governed Philadelphia schools for the last 15 years, saying it is time for "the experiment to end."
Gov. Mary Fallin ordered state agencies on Monday to prepare plans to cut 10 percent of "non-mission-critical" expenses for the remainder of this fiscal year and the entirety of the next.
Students across the nation are taking tests that are redundant, misaligned with college- and career-ready standards, and often don't address students' mastery of specific content, according to a long-awaited report that provides the first in-depth look at testing in the nation's largest urban school districts.
On the often cloudy shores of the Buffalo River, where a steel factory once thrived, lies the rising framework of one of New York’s most ambitious economic endeavors ever: a giant solar panel factory that the state says will be the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
Los Angeles lawmakers voted unanimously Tuesday to pass a new law requiring Angelenos to lock up or disable their handguns at home if they aren't close at hand.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought to balance minority concerns of overaggressive policing with an attempt to enlist law enforcement's help to push for stronger federal gun-control laws.
The island’s future depends a lot on San Juan.
In our nostalgia for the postwar era, we ignore some things that weren’t so good.
Seattle is largely run by older white men, but changes in the city's election law will likely make its politicians more representative of the people.
Businessman Bruce Rauner, the first Illinois governor with no prior political experience, promised to "shake up Springfield." Now he and lawmakers are locked in the state's longest budget showdown -- with no end in sight.
Federal firearm laws are unlikely to change, so it’s up to states and localities to lead a societal effort.
In the lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court, the federal government accused Pittsfield Township of breaking the law in denying zoning approval to the Michigan Islamic Academy, which wants to build a school on undeveloped land
Lisa Kaplan, principal of Andrew Jackson Elementary School, is the winner of the 2015 Escalante-Gradillas Prize for Best in Education.
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