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Mayor Mike Duggan apparently allows city employees to use Gmail accounts for city business, - a practice that concerns open records experts.
The $2-per-pack fee is helping Philly schools, but the tax revenue will decline starting in 2016.
Gov. Brue Rauner and the Illinois house speaker, Michael Madigan, have hit a wall on the state budget.
The healthcare law helps the sickest Americans — depending on their state.
Gov. Jack Markell has vetoed a controversial bill that would allow parents to pull their kids out of Delaware's standardized test.
Gov. John Kasich signed today a controversial bill that drastically changes how the state can step in to run "failing" school districts by creating a new CEO position, allowing mayors to appoint school board members and giving the CEO power to override parts of union contracts.
John Kasich has a resume seemingly tailor-made for a serious run for the Republican nomination: blue-collar upbringing, congressional budget hawk, Fox News commentator, investment banker, successful two-term governor of Ohio.
Public agencies in Missouri that don't respond in three days to requests for public records under the state Sunshine Law give up their right to block the release of the records requested, a judge says in a lawsuit over the release of the pharmacy name in Missouri's executions.
The isolation cells were about the size of a walk-in closet, freezing cold in winter and sweltering in summer. Locked inside for 23 hours a day, some prisoners shouted through the door constantly, desperate to hear an answering voice.
The 10 Freeway is shut in both directions near the eastern side of Joshua Tree National Park after rain from the weekend's unusual storms washed out a bridge in Desert Center on Sunday.
Gov. Bill Haslam on Sunday ordered a review of security policies at Tennessee National Guard recruiting stations and armories following last week's assault on two U.S. military facilities in Chattanooga that left four U.S. Marines and a sailor dead.
The people who deliver services directly to the public know a lot. Denver is setting the pace for tapping that resource.
It's not enough to simply deliver services efficiently. The goal should be to create a sense of place.
Not that long ago, we hardly ever used or even knew the term. What changed?
Communities face a lot of challenges in improving Internet access. The key is engaging stakeholders in a collaborative process.
Republicans may have a supermajority in the legislature, but they can't seem to win statewide offices.
In the decade since the storm, the federal government's involvement in disaster relief has risen -- and so have tensions with localities.
Wealthier people often move to gentrifying neighborhoods for the mom-and-pop stores, but their presence is driving the shops away. Can cities save them?
Todd Graves, attorney for the Wisconsin Club for Growth. The group was investigated for its relationship with Gov. Scott Walker's campaign -- which the state Supreme Court concluded was legal -- and is now filing lawsuits challenging the legality of the initial investigation. Graves said the lawsuits' main motive, though, is not monetary but making sure facts about how prosecutors operated are disclosed.
The Obama administration's digital divide crusade is expanding through a program called ConnectHome and is expected to initially reach more than 275,000 households through increased broadband access, technical training and digital devices.
Under new legislation, Vermont Student Assistance Corporation will set aside $250 for post-secondary education for every child born to Vermont residents, or $500 for children born into families earning less than 250 percent of the federal poverty level.
The city is paying rates that approach 8 percent on the $743 million in taxable debt sold Wednesday. Chicago's borrowing costs have risen dramatically relative to other borrowers as its credit rating has deteriorated.
Philadelphia, with 80,000 low-income tenants, is the largest city in the country to enact such a prohibition.
Gov. Bill Walker said Thursday he would use his executive power to expand the public Medicaid health-care program to newly cover as many as 40,000 low-income residents.
Arizona's legal team came to Pasadena on Thursday to defend the state's refusal to issue driver's licenses to so-called Dreamers, and found that one member of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was in no mood for legal maneuvering.
The Maine Legislature on Thursday shut the books on a roller coaster of a session that stretched to become the longest in recent memory.
Workers whose job is to monitor whether their employer complies with standards and regulations are not barred from whistleblower protections under a state law designed to prevent retaliation against employees who speak out, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
The Colorado Board of Health voted 6-2 — amid shouts, hisses and boos from a packed house — not to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the medical conditions that can be treated under the state's medical marijuana program.
Fifteen years after Hawaii legalized medical marijuana, the state plans to begin licensing pot dispensaries.
Dealing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker a victory just as his presidential campaign gets underway, the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a sweeping decision Thursday ruled the governor's campaign and conservative groups had not violated campaign finance laws.
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