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John Bebout, adviser to the Alaska Constitutional Convention, on the Alaska Permanent Fund, a constitutionally established fund that manages the state's oil revenues through a state-owned corporation.
A lot could be done to replace fear and ignorance with data and insight.
The City Accelerator is helping cities engage residents for better results.
At a time when Obama is calling for free community college and governors want better-educated workforces, some states are considering big cuts to higher education.
Senate Democrats are pushing for a four-year extension of the program, but the House's bipartisan plan would cut that in half.
One of the most successful investments in the history of the Alaska Permanent Fund grew out of a chance conversation by two men waiting in line at Boston's Logan Airport for a flight to Seattle. A friend introduced the president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to a portfolio manager for the Alaska Permanent Fund.
Even as assisted reproduction has become more common, neither the U.S. nor state governments do much to oversee the multibillion-dollar industry.
Declining federal reimbursements for hospitals under the Affordable Care Act are the principal reason for closures. The law reduced payments to hospitals for the uninsured on the assumption that states would expand their Medicaid programs.
Amount Massachusetts health exchange officials racked up in taxpayer-funded expenses, including a harbor boat cruise, luxury hotel stays, and a $285 cake to celebrate the launch of the Affordable Care Act.
Amount the Texas Department of Transportation will return to tollway users who have been overbilled.
House Republicans called it streamlining, empowering states or “achieving sustainability.” They couched deep spending reductions in any number of gauzy euphemisms.
The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the city of Atlanta's plans to help finance the new $1.4 billion Falcons stadium, allowing the city to move forward with issuing $200 million in bonds toward the project.
Gov. Bill Walker announced Tuesday that he would try to expand the public Medicaid health care system through a new bill, after the Republican-led Alaska Legislature rejected his efforts to expand the program using the state’s annual budget legislation.
Only a day after being announced as an aide to Gov. Scott Walker’s political operation, Liz Mair told The Associated Press on Tuesday that she was resigning. Mair took considerable heat for her frank Twitter criticism of Iowa’s early role in the presidential nomination process.
Failures in the hiring and supervision of San Diego police led to a series of misconduct cases, but the Police Department remains "progressive, sound and very effective," according to a federal review released Tuesday.
Thousands of people arrested in Connecticut for marijuana possession now have the right to get their convictions erased after the state Supreme Court ruled Monday that the violation had been downgraded to the same legal level as a parking ticket.
Americans are required to register if they want to vote; as of this week, Oregonians will have to register not to.
The city of Los Angeles, a finalist in the second round of the City Accelerator, is focused on engaging its low-income residents as the city grows.
The president’s new budget would put an end to the longstanding practice of states and cities using tax-exempt bonds to finance professional sports arenas, a practice that costs the U.S. Treasury $146 million,
Thirty-nine states added jobs in January, while half recorded declines in their unemployment rates. View data for each state.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are trying to protect the Washington, D.C., school voucher system, a GOP pet program championed by Speaker John A. Boehner and others with no impact on the rest of the country.
A roundup of public-sector management news you need to know.
Four months after the Denton, Texas, historic vote, top state lawmakers don’t appear to be scratching their heads. Petroleum is winning hands down, and local control appears headed for a beating.
The state now expects that earnings from the Constitutional Budget Reserve in 2016 will be about $357 million. How long the account might last after that will depend on oil prices, state spending and tax policy.
In many hospitals and clinics around the country, oncologists and surgeons simply tell cancer patients what treatments they should have, or at least give them strong recommendations. But in some hospitals doctors and patients are working together to make choices about care.
People can type in their names at illinoistreasurer.gov to see what they may have lost. Starting Monday and ending Friday, anyone can click on the "Unclaimed Property Auction" link on the website to bid on the forgotten items.
Amount the Secret Service wants lawmakers to provide to build a scale replica of the White House in Beltsville, Md. It would be used to train agents to better protect the presidential mansion.
Rahm Emanuel and Jesus "Chuy" Garcia engaged in a contentious first debate Monday night, as the mayor accused his challenger of having no plans to deal with the city's financial problems while Garcia contended Emanuel served only "the rich and powerful."
In what Gov. Pat McCrory hailed as a historic decision, a three-judge panel Monday unanimously ruled in his favor in a landmark challenge to the General Assembly.
In a frenzied countdown to midnight, West Virginia lawmakers tried to tie up loose ends Saturday before wrapping a 60-day session under Republican leadership for the first time in more than eight decades.
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