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Former Democratic Congressman Artur Davis is hoping to beat the odds in his hometown.
As public education becomes less public, what new economic model will emerge?
They may have had their negatives, but unlike Congress today -- and to some degree, the states -- they got the job done.
Many people think the work of human services agencies creates dependency and exacerbates poverty. But there’s a new effort to recast them in a more favorable light.
Indiana is the latest state to find out what happens when districts aren’t required to offer students free transportation to and from school.
What began as a day in 1962 has morphed into a weeklong celebration.
States were encouraged to experiment with ways to expand health care, but how lenient will the feds be?
Walker has proved to be an effective leader in one of the most polarized states. But how will the conservative governor’s record in Wisconsin translate to a presidential bid?
Truth or Consequences, N.M., is hoping space tourism will transform the sleepy desert town.
Pouring federal aid into poor communities hasn’t accomplished much in the past. But the Obama administration insists its Promise Zones program will be different.
Officials in several cities transformed by young adults try to predict their next move.
Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation late Thursday, saying criminalizing school absences doesn't work
Five members of the Texas Supreme Court affirmed a 2011 opinion from the Austin-based 3rd Court of Appeals that said the attorney general's office did not have standing to appeal the divorce between Texas residents Angelique Naylor and Sabina Daly.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission works to address climate change. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection mostly ignores it. Only one of the agencies answers to the governor.
Legislators and the governor have met behind closed doors for months, with little obvious progress on the issues that have dominated Capitol discourse: property-tax reform, liquor privatization, and a fix for skyrocketing pension costs. The deadline is June 30.
The higher costs paid by state workers could fall to taxpayers.
A months-long effort to keep Republicans from pushing Planned Parenthood out of a state cancer screening program for low-income women ended in defeat on Saturday when Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed off on the proposal.
With his first session officially behind him, Gov. Greg Abbott has wielded his veto pen against 42 bills, the largest batch of legislation to draw a Texas governor's disapproval since the 2007 session.
Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a bill Wednesday that will criminalize distribution of sexually explicit images without the subject's consent.
"Veep," HBO's Emmy Award-winning political satire, is leaving Maryland for Los Angeles, HBO announced Thursday.
At least for now, the state of Tennessee can't trademark its controversial new logo.
Promising to "rebuild the heart of America's cities," former Gov. Martin O'Malley used an appearance at a meeting of the nation's mayors on Sunday to call for a federal ban on assault weapons and stricter regulations on gun purchases.
Another S.C. Republican lawmaker said Saturday that he would support removing the Confederate flag from the State House grounds.
Repealing the federal health law would add an additional 19 million to the ranks of the uninsured in 2016 and increase the federal deficit over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.
The latest analytics tools can help police and community leaders see the larger public-safety picture.
To attract young professionals, cities increasingly are going to have to think multi-modal.
Experiments in the Seattle area that involve an array of organizations have ambitious goals.
It's valuable as a tool for assessing economic ripple effects, but it won't magically fill budget gaps.
No stranger to hard times, Baltimore looks to new ideas to rise from the ashes.
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