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The city of Chicago put Barbara Byrd-Bennett on leave due to a federal investigation of a no-bid contract with a company she once worked for.
Ex-Washington, D.C., Councilmember Jim Graham, who lost his re-election bid last year and is now a special events director for a strip club. The gay former politician is helping the owner start a weekly gay night with male strippers at the female nude dance club.
Portion of children born in the United States to mothers who get Medicaid benefits.
The law Obama signed Thursday marks the third time in three years that cuts to safety-net hospitals have been pushed back but the first time the amount of cuts has increased.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday said it has launched an internal review of its reserve deputy program after a reserve deputy apparently confused his revolver with his stun gun and killed a man earlier this month.
Efforts to designate the "Holy Bible" as Tennessee government's official book failed in the state Senate Thursday after the controversial bill, which had attracted national attention, was forced back to committee.
State Auditor Troy Kelley was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of concealing stolen property, lying to federal investigators, filing false tax returns and "corrupt interference with Internal Revenue laws."
Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill that could jeopardize health insurance for more than 150,000 Arizonans if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects subsidized coverage in Arizona and 33 other states.
The state Board of Health on Wednesday passed new immunization rules that officials say strengthen school policies and will improve the state's low vaccination rates.
With the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, caused by a rogue pilot with a history of depression, people are calling for better mental-health screenings for pilots. But it’s not just in aviation where mental-health treatment is a concern.
President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to battle climate change by forcing power plants to reduce their greenhouse gases appeared to survive its first court challenge Thursday, but only because the formal rules are still pending at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Once inaccessible and crime-ridden, Charlottesville, Va.’s now-popular pedestrian mall offers a blueprint for other cities.
The focus has been on California’s drought, but dozens of other states are facing their own water woes.
Will small cities be able to exploit technology the way bigger cities have?
It's a mistake to try to control or regulate innovation. Think about what happened to the music business.
Republicans are attacking the state’s ethics board for engaging in partisan witch-hunts, particularly for its investigation of Gov. Scott Walker.
In 1994, Seattle won praise from urbanist thinkers nationwide with its 20-year plan for population and economic growth.
The $1.3-billion iPad effort was a signature program under then-Supt. John Deasy. But it faltered almost immediately during the fall 2013 rollout of the devices. Questions later arose about whether companies involved enjoyed an advantage in the bidding process; an FBI criminal investigation is ongoing.
Actual ministers support the decision of Maine Sen. David Burns to withdraw his bill, which was nearly identical in substance to the controversial religious freedom law passed in Indiana.
Gov. Sam Brownback will sign a welfare reform bill that has gained national attention Thursday morning at the Department for Children and Families service center in Topeka.
Christy Denault leaves Gov. Mike Pence's office after PR disasters with the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act and botched plans to start a state-run news service called JustIN.
Scott Walker backs trade deal, signs research pact on a trip Walker designed to bolster his foreign affairs credentials.
Most cities are failing to tell their fiscal stories well or at all. New York and Chicago, though, offer models of true transparency.
A San Francisco appeals court said it again: Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies can't detain car occupants simply because they're Latino.
A bill to prevent parents from opting their children out of school-required vaccinations could be headed for a major rewrite after lawmakers heard impassioned testimony from hundreds of parents who threatened to take their kids out of school.
Federal health officials turned up the pressure on Florida Tuesday, saying the future of $1.3 billion in federal funding for hospitals that treat low-income patients is tied to whether the Legislature expands Medicaid.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, dismayed by a Democratic Party that he believes has moved too slowly to embrace a populist platform, arrived in the Midwest on Wednesday with an audacious mission: leading the nation leftward.
The last time Kenneth Seay lost his job, at an industrial bakery that offered health insurance and Christmas bonuses, it was because he had been thrown in jail for legal issues stemming from a revoked driver’s license. Same with the three jobs before that.
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