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Some argue it can be traced back to how departments evaluate their officers.
Presidential hopefuls court local officials in states like Iowa.
Nate Bell has dropped the Republican Party and is now an independent.
Highway construction opponent Charles Marohn, explaining how he came to support a plan to reduce the gas tax dramatically and turn almost all responsibility for the federal highway system to the states.
A tweet from a mother in the suburbs of Philadelphia after her child's teacher made parents sign a permission slip before their kids could eat one Oreo each in a science class.
The decline in water usage in California from April 2013 to April 2015, the month the governor ordered residents to cut their usage by 25 percent.
The Nevada Senate concurred on a $1.5 billion omnibus tax plan the Assembly passed Sunday, sending Gov. Brian Sandoval a historic measure to bolster education funding by more than $600 million in the next two years.
In a state where public schoolteachers have marched on the state Capitol and staged walk-ins to protest pay and policy reforms, the N.C. Court of Appeals issued a ruling Tuesday that buoyed the spirits of the rallying educators and struck a blow to the Republican education agenda in North Carolina.
One morning in March, commercial trash hauler Adam Williams Jr. sent a text message to a Baltimore Department of Public Works employee at the city-owned Quarantine Road Landfill that read, "N. The. Gum."
Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed two bills on Monday, including one aimed at encouraging people to call 911 during drug overdoses, even if they are in possession of illegal substances themselves.
Last year, Texans saw Greg Abbott on the side of a traffic-choked highway in the Dallas area, promising to put billions more toward transportation if elected governor.
With the lunch hour near and the temperature in the 80s, the only souls in sight outside the courthouse here were two men taking turns aiming a pressure washer’s nozzle at the steps of the building.
One concern about the new law is the lack of a requirement for people registering to provide identification.
Portion of Houston's 2015 valedictorians who began school as English-language learners.
State Attorney General Brad Schimel is creating an office to help the public obtain government records more quickly and consistently.
The state can now collect nearly half a billion dollars more in revenue.
Improving state oversight of nonprofits is just one way that accessible, computer-friendly data could make governance better.
State senators also approved a bill restricting abortions.
The Campaign for Accountability filed complaints with the attorney generals of Montana, Utah and Arizona alleging that Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory defrauded taxpayers funds by telling them the federal government can be forced to transfer public lands to the states.
George Kelling, one of the creators of the 1982 "Broken Windows" theory that maintaining public order helps prevent crime, referring to the zero-tolerance policies that many cities adopted in an attempt to put his theory into practice.
Number of Texas high school seniors who failed to pass all of the state’s graduation tests but will get their diplomas anyway because of a new law that lets students fail two of the five exams.
Approximate amount Tennessee wrongly paid out in unemployment claims -- to prisoners, dead people and state employees, among others -- over the past six years.
Another budgetary storm is brewing in Oregon's public pension system, according to figures shared Friday with the pension system's board and the five-member citizens panel that oversees its investments.
Hundreds of aging earthen dams in Ohio are in disrepair and many are unsafe. Thousands of people downstream could be in the path of floodwater if those dams fail.
Gov. Bill Walker said Monday he's still hoping for a budget solution from the Alaska Legislature but that without one he has no choice but to move forward with planning for a shutdown of unfunded government agencies.
House and Senate committees met separately but simultaneously to discuss Medicaid expansion on the first day of the special session.
A current member and former member of the state House of Representatives pleaded guilty Monday to corruption charges, bringing to three the number of Philadelphia Democrats convicted in the resurrected "sting" case.
Offering what he said would be "healing and hope for children who are afflicted by relentless seizures caused by epilepsy," Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation Monday legalizing low-THC cannabis oils as treatment for certain medical conditions.
Some cities have started equipping them not just to cops but also other government employees who often encounter confrontation.
The measure had been adopted in 2006 by the state's voters, and it said judges may not release on bail persons who have "entered or remained in the United States illegally" and were arrested for "serious felony offenses." The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the law last year. The court said it would not hear the appeal.
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