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Few places in the U.S. are benefiting from lower gas prices as much as Mississippi. Residents spend about 6 percent of their after-tax income on gasoline, more than any other state.
Rahm Emanuel's failure to avoid a runoff has less to do with him and more to do with Chicago's problems, which run deeper than many want to acknowledge.
Number of "special conservators of the peace" in Virginia, private citizens who have petitioned courts for the authority to carry guns, display badges and make arrests. The number of SCOPs has doubled in the state over the past decade.
Maine state Sen. Eric Brakey, who sponsored a bill to let adults opt out of wearing seat belts. Last Friday's debate on the legislation occurred two days after the biggest car crash in state history.
Tom Wolf called Bill Green yesterday to inform him that he was removing him as chairman of the city's School Reform Commission.
The festering troubles at the state’s prison system have emerged as a problem that won’t go away.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, on how he changed his mind about immigration policy once he started exploring a run for president. Walker had previously indicated that he believed immigrants currently in the U.S. illegally could stay if they paid certain penalties.
Units of retail edible marijuana products sold in Colorado since the state legalized the substance last year.
The anticipated average increase in insurance premiums sold on the federal exchange if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against Obamacare in King v. Burwell and eliminates subsidies for people in 37 states.
Their numbers may pale in comparison to the peak protest rallies of 2011, but the passion was much the same for those who showed up Saturday to demonstrate their opposition to right-to-work legislation in Wisconsin.
Gov. Christie's proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 assumes hundreds of millions of dollars in savings achieved through the expansion of Medicaid under President Obama's health-care law.
Twenty-nine percent of children taken from their families and placed in foster care failed to receive at least one required medical checkup, the Health and Human Services Department Office of the Inspector General said in a report out today.
The cost of healthcare premiums could rise as much 779 percent if the Supreme Court erases ObamaCare subsidies in a majority of states this year, according to a new study.
After bolting to national prominence on a record of bringing public employee unions to heel and taming runaway pension costs like those that have challenged state governments across the country, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hit a very large hurdle recently.
The number of statehouse reporters has drastically declined, but journalists see reasons for optimism.
We're paying a lot of attention to gender-based violence on college campuses, but preventing it should begin in our elementary and high schools.
Many governments are embracing data analytics, both for public consumption and to guide their internal work. But there's one area that's missing out: IT departments' own operations.
They're inevitable for a host of reasons, and the blame will fall on top elected officials. Can they fix problems before they become full-blown crises?
By putting off dealing with its retirement-system underfunding problems, New Jersey has dug itself into a 'draconian' fiscal hole.
The most important customer for a city is the one that makes the biggest net contribution.
Workers are feeling the pinch the most in the South and in areas highly dependent on the tourism industry. View data for nearly 200 metro areas.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
About 61,000 Ohioans will lose their tax-funded health coverage at the end of this week.
The deployment of additional state police and Texas National Guard troops to the southern border last June has reduced illegal border crossings but cost more than $100 million and compromised the Department of Public Safety's ability to combat crimes elsewhere, according to an internal DPS assessment prepared for Gov. Greg Abbott and lawmakers.
Gov. Scott Walker told thousands of conservative activists Thursday that his experience standing up to 100,000 protesters in 2011 has prepared him to face the threat posed by Islamic State terrorists
Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich _ a lifelong high achiever who appeared poised to make a strong run to be the state's next governor _ died Thursday in St. Louis in an apparent suicide.
Nearly two dozen directors of states' largest program have resigned in the last year.
People living and working near the Western Hemisphere's first location to get gigabit-per-second Internet service should soon have access to the same speedy broadband their neighbors
The impact of oil's price drop depends on how much a local government relies on the oil industry for revenue and jobs.
That's what House Republicans, who allege that a secret plan exists to maintain health insurance subsidies, repeatedly asked the president's top health official.
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