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Oakland County, Michigan, residents will soon be able to text 911 to get emergency help.
President Barack Obama said Sunday that he planned to ask Congress to declare much of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, including its 1.5-million-acre coastal plain, an area on Alaska's North Slope suspected to contain vast reserves of oil and gas.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his allies have started a political action committee, taking the first concrete step toward launching a presidential bid and joining the battle for the Republican Party's top donors.
Sheriffs are campaigning to pressure Google Inc. to turn off a feature on its Waze traffic software that warns drivers when police are nearby.
With federal approval in doubt, Gov. Scott Walker is moving ahead with his campaign pledge to ensure that drug users aren't getting public health care, food stamp or jobless benefits.
Embattled Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his allies crafted a deal Sunday night to let the Manhattan Democrat "temporarily" cede responsibilities of running the chamber to five colleagues while he fights federal corruption charges against him.
Medi-Cal applicants who have been waiting for more than 45 days can receive temporary health benefits while officials determine eligibility for the public insurance program, a state Superior Court judge ruled this week.
Lillian Palermo tried to prepare for the worst possibilities of aging. An insurance executive with a Ph.D. in psychology and a love of ballroom dancing, she arranged for her power of attorney and health care proxy to go to her husband, Dino, eight years her junior, if she became incapacitated. And in her 80s, she did.
Promising new approaches have emerged to overcome rules that inhibit the sharing of information critical to evidence-based policymaking.
Nowhere is that more true than within regions. It calls for an integrated approach to planning and funding.
Our economy is increasingly service-based. The way we raise the revenue to support our local governments needs to reflect that.
A former D.C. housing official gives a hard look at what worked, and what didn't, in an award-winning redevelopment project.
Is it because of safety fears or just a desire for more revenue?
Personal-belief exemptions from vaccinations have dropped in the state.
Miami backs a $430 million hairpin tower. Is it too ugly?
New Jersey's governor has received more than 1,100 gifts since he took office in 2010,
Gov. Jack Markell's seventh State of the State address was short on grand legislative proposals, instead focusing on ways he could improve public education, end veteran homelessness, address substance abuse and forge partnerships to improve workforce skills.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, indicating that the federal government may need to grant Michigan more than 100 waivers in order for his administration to redesign some 145 different state social services programs.
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, speaking at the U.S. Conference of Mayors' winter meeting about energy efficiency and infrastructure improvements.
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Read our report on how gentrification has reshaped a growing number of urban neighborhoods.
This week's roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
On his second day in office, Gov. Wolf rescinded more than two dozen 11th-hour appointments by his predecessor -- firing the state's new open records officer, canceling judicial nominations and effectively booting the former lieutenant governor from Temple University's board of trustees.
Gov. Paul LePage wants to get rid of the secretary of state position and replace it with a lieutenant governor.
Saying “dreamers” are here legally, a federal judge late Thursday permanently blocked Arizona from denying them licenses to drive.
A Colorado law that allows immigrants in the country illegally to get driver's licenses was heralded as historic for its bipartisan support and an ingenious way to make driving safer because it required mandatory driving tests and insurance.
Gov. Larry Hogan outlined a budget plan Thursday that would cut school aid to Baltimore and state workers' pay but preserve — at least for now — funding for two light rail lines.
Wendell Ford, the patriarch of Kentucky Democratic politics in the latter part of the 20th century, died Thursday morning in his hometown of Owensboro. He was 90.
She was the first woman to serve as governor of Hawaii — and the first of Jewish ancestry.
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