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Feel-good stories are nice, but there's a role for academia in bringing scientific rigor to the process.
Republicans' anti-immigration rhetoric is turning off Hispanic voters, yet they're better than Democrats at finding Hispanic candidates to climb the political ladder.
State Sen. Vigil Smith is a suspect in a domestic dispute outside his Detroit home earlier Sunday in which shots were fired at a woman's vehicle, two police sources told the Free Press.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ordered emergency measures on Sunday to combat the wage theft and health hazards faced by the thousands of people who work in New York State’s nail salon industry.
With little fanfare, Gov. Bill Haslam on Friday signed into law a measure that requires Tennessee abortion providers to meet stricter standards as outpatient surgical care treatment centers.
The nation's top law enforcement officials are likely to have a watchful presence over Baltimore police for the next few years, as the U.S. Department of Justice examines whether officers commonly use excessive force and violate residents' constitutional rights.
Lawmakers effectively killed a bill Thursday that sought to overhaul Georgia teachers' pensions, refusing to allow a study of the potential financial effects.
The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday unanimously ruled unconstitutional a landmark state pension law that aimed to scale back government worker benefits to erase a massive $105 billion retirement system debt, sending lawmakers and the new governor back to the negotiating table to try to solve the pressing financial issue.
What the best public-sector leaders do doesn't sound very exciting. It helps to be great at chess.
The millennials who will replace today's government workers are looking for a very different workplace culture.
An excerpt from the Illinois Supreme Court's unanimous ruling last week that struck down the state's pension reform law. The court concluded it violated a provision in the Illinois constitution that bars the diminishing of public worker retirement benefits.
In the last few years, most states have stopped taking assets like retirement and education savings into account when deciding whether people qualify for aid.
Changes in death rates of people on Medicare — both those who had been in the hospital and among the broader populace — were no different than those for people in similar places where no hospital had closed.
AB 1356 authorizes law enforcement to use a new device to check drivers for use of pot, cocaine and other drugs.
In addition to New York, Connecticut and Texas, relief proposals have been up for debate in Pennsylvania, Maine and Nebraska this year.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Local governments are likely headed for legal trouble after taking a stand against the state's new law that blocks them from banning discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Instead they'll help put people on a fast track to recovery, representing a major shift in drug policy.
A bill signed into law Monday creates a Marijuana Control Board that will take the lead in crafting Alaska's marijuana laws.
The chief judge of the state's special-school finance court assigned the state's top education finance official some homework Tuesday:
In a win for consumers, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that settlement agreements between pharmaceutical companies that keep cheaper, generic drugs off the market may be illegal if they include excessive cash payments.
For the first time in at least four decades, Ohio State University plans to freeze all of its costs -- tuition, fees, room and board -- for in-state, undergraduate students, who represent most of the university's enrollment.
The state employee who manages fraud investigations for the state welfare department was charged with fraud himself Wednesday for lying about his assets on an application to refinance his home mortgage.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder sought to end weeks of speculation Thursday when he issued a statement saying he will not be a Republican nominee for president in 2016.
Nashville's co-chief innovation officer on the city's key takeaways from the City Accelerator.
It's a way to do procurement with proven benefits, and it's catching on at all levels of government. But some myths need to be dispelled.
The New York governor's maneuver is the culmination of a fight for $15-an-hour wages for fast-food workers that started in New York City almost three years ago.
The author of a bill to ban the substance postponed the measure until July 4 — more than a month after the end of the legislative session.
The governor of California last week announced major changes to his plan to build two tunnels to divert water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the south. The administration, while moving forward with a $15 billion conveyance, dramatically reduced the amount of habitat restoration originally proposed.
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