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By training 100 mid-level staffers as 'Data Fellows,' New Jersey's child-welfare agency has found a formula for improving outcomes.
Transportation departments own a lot of infrastructure. They could be doing more to derive revenue from it.
Best-selling author Stephen King, after the Maine governor suggested that King moved out of Maine and no longer paid taxes in the state. While King has a residence in Florida, he and his wife also have houses in Maine.
Earlier this month South Miami passed a resolution to separate southern from northern Florida, because of climate change.
Boeing is the biggest winner of state and local tax incentives, receiving more than $13 billion of them, according to a nonprofit watchdog group that tracks the subsidies.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
A computer attack during testing delayed some exams in the Colorado Springs school district.
This reverses a circuit court decision last year finding that the law gave too much power to the Department of Correction to decide what drugs to use for lethal injections and how to administer them, in violation of the separation-of-powers doctrine.
Cylvia Hayes is now being represented by two federal public defenders in the influence-peddling investigation by the FBI and the IRS.
William Justice, the auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, defending St. Mary's Cathedral for installing a system that every 30 to 60 minutes dumped water onto the ground near the cathedral's sheltered doorways where the homeless slept. The city forced the archdiocese to remove the system last week.
Approximate amount Ohio will pay Ricky Jackson, a 59-year-old Cleveland man who spent 39 years in prison for a 1975 murder he didn't commit.
A Dane County judge declined to issue a temporary injunction Thursday that would have put Wisconsin's new right-to-work law on hold, finding that there wasn't adequate proof that unions would suffer irreparable harm without the injunction.
Gov. Bobby Jindal unveiled a two-prong plan Wednesday that he said will rid the state of Common Core.
Tesla Motors can go back to selling its luxury electric cars directly to consumers in New Jersey as Gov. Chris Christie Wednesday signed legislation that allows the car maker to do so at up to four locatio
The arrest and injury of University of Virginia student Martese Johnson sparked more of the “black lives matter” protests that have become familiar in the wake of police actions against unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and beyond. In the wake of protests that drew more than 1,000 students, Virginia's Gov. Terry McAuliffe has asked state police to launch an independent investigation into what happened outside an Irish pub during St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has begun an aggressive campaign to block President Obama’s climate change agenda in statehouses and courtrooms across the country, arenas far beyond Mr. McConnell’s official reach and authority.
Despite months of news coverage, most people say they have heard little or nothing about a Supreme Court case that could eliminate subsidies helping millions of Americans afford coverage under the federal health law, according to a poll released Thursday.
Watch and review both cities' plans to increase citizen involvement and decrease income inequality through the City Accelerator.
State land management coordinator Barton Bibler was forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he refused to scrub mentions of "climate change" from the official minutes of a department meeting where he says climate change was a major topic of discussion.
New Hampshire state legislator Warren Groen, speaking against legislation, drafted by fourth graders as a part of a project to help them learn how a bill becomes law, to designate the Red Tail Hawk as the state raptor.
The controversial sheriff ignored a federal judge’s orders to stop detaining people simply because of a suspicion they may be in the country illegally.
President Obama has a good idea: End the use of tax-exempt bonds to finance stadiums.
On Wednesday Georgetown’s municipal utility unveiled plans to abandon traditional electricity sources like coal and gas power plants and instead use wind and solar energy to meet all power needs.
Three weeks before hackers infiltrated Premera Blue Cross, federal auditors warned the company that its network security procedures were inadequate.
Virginia's governor has ordered an investigation into a black University of Virginia student's arrest after photos and video of the student's bloodied face went viral on social media.
The state of Texas is suing the Obama administration for giving medical leave benefits to certain same-sex couples, according to an announcement Wednesday from Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Ads attacking U.S. military aid to Israel were posted on Muni buses in San Francisco this year without incident. But Seattle's public transit line rejected the ads after threats of violence, and on Wednesday a divided federal appeals court upheld its decision.
Acknowledging that California's water conservation efforts are falling short as the state descends into a fourth year of punishing drought, the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday imposed new mandatory water conservation rules that will affect millions of people -- from how homeowners water their lawns to how restaurants and hotels serve their guests.
The University of Maine System trustees voted Monday to freeze in-state tuition for a fourth straight year, pending approval of the governor’s proposed 1.7 percent increase in state funding.
