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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.
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
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 Wolf rescinded more than two dozen 11th-hour appointments by his predecessor -- firing the state's new open records officer, canceling judicial nominations and effectively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.
The Obama administration’s reversal last month of a 17-year-old policy should mean more Medicaid dollars for school-based health programs for combating chronic diseases, such as asthma.
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
See neighborhood maps and gentrification data for Washington, D.C.
Record low voter turnout and a change in state law means the fall 2016 ballot will be really, really long.
With pedestrian and cyclist deaths on the rise, Anthony Foxx challenged mayors to make the roads safer for both.
The Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial is delayed as jury selection bogs down.
Chris Christie has appointed an emergency management team for the city where 12 casinos closed last year.
While Arkansas looks to replace its first-of-a-kind model for expanding Medicaid, Gov. Asa Hutchinson urged lawmakers to renew it through 2016.
Vermont may have abandoned the country’s only effort to enact single-payer health care, but one state legislator thinks the Affordable Care Act’s flaws will boost his cause.
Cities are trying to curb people’s driving habits, but most Americans aren’t ready to give up their cars.
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