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Perhaps the next big thing in local government ought to be a “higher education relations officer” who leverages universities’ assets to benefit the cities they’re in.
Each are crucial for states and localities to address this year.
Once wide open and famous for sprawl, the Texas city is becoming increasingly crowded and expensive.
Private companies are paying the city $500 million to transform old pay phones into high-speed Internet hotspots. Is it a plan other cities can copy?
The feds are letting Indiana, which is now the 10th Republican-run state to expand Medicaid, make several changes to the program that could discourage low-income people from seeking care.
But a new contest, where the competition is limited to rural areas, offers a chance for smaller municipalities to realize their economic development plans.
Since 2000, urban neighborhoods have gentrified at twice the rate of the 1990s. View maps and data for the nation's 50 largest cities.
Senate Republicans announced they had filed suit in Commonwealth Court against the governor over his decision to fire the director of the office of open records.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's former boss endorses him in a radio ad.
Gov. David Ige touched on a number of priority areas -- from taxes and spending to education -- but offered few specific proposals in his first State of the State before the Legislature Monday.
A report contends that correctional staff at the Estelle Unit regularly neglect, abuse and even violently beat blind deaf, and otherwise disabled prisoners with little to no consequences.
Inmates Abused in Prison
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Tweet from the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker used the band's song "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" for his entrance music at the Iowa Freedom Summit. The band has a history of supporting working class and union causes.
U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. ruled on Monday that the University of Houston could not deny a veteran free tuition benefits granted under the Texas Hazlewood Act because he was a resident of another state when he enrolled in the military.
A blizzard dropped more than a foot (30 cm) of snow across the northeastern United States on Tuesday, falling short of the massive predicted snowfall that prompted officials across the region to close schools and order travel bans.
Two police officers were injured by a gunman outside a New Hope City Council meeting on Monday night. The gunman was fatally shot by police, authorities said.
Criminal exonerations often make big news because of the agonizing years that those falsely convicted have spent behind bars -- sometimes under the specter of a death sentence -- but for those who keep track of them, it was a slew of low-level cases from Harris County that proved to be the most interesting among those recorded in 2014.
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will not have to report to a federal prison in two weeks, a federal appeals court said Monday, in a move that bodes well for McDonnell's appeal of his conviction on public corruption charges.
Gov. Mike Pence is starting a state-run taxpayer-funded news outlet that will make pre-written news stories available to Indiana media, as well as sometimes break news about his administration, according to documents obtained by The Indianapolis Star.
How it’s defined could impact state election laws from campaign finance to voter ID.
Bad intergovernmental relations have the United States headed for fiscal disaster.
Some say Democrats suffered big blows in November because they’ve become a party of urban elitists.
In many gentrifying neighborhoods, attracting new residents and restaurants is the easy part. Finding the right mix of retail is much harder.
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