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Grand Rapids, Mich., stands as tangible evidence of what cities can do to reduce human impact on the environment. But the city’s efforts also underscore its limitations.
Artificial light is a growing problem that’s hurting humans and animals. What are cities doing about it?
If the new Congress defunds the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the impact on states will vary.
Many cities are partnering with nonprofits, but Detroit’s project may represent the best effort to create a vision for the future and provide the tools to make it a reality.
A new federal rule designed to ensure care is more visitor-friendly and home-like than nursing homes could make it difficult for facilities to qualify for federal money.
As demand for data analysts in government grows, what may be the nation's first master’s program that teaches not just public policy knowledge but technology skills too has launched.
A new study shows that when legislators make their stance on even controversial issues public, they convince people to join their side.
That’s what the U.S. Supreme Court will decide in a case that could make judicial elections even more like other political races.
Adelanto, a small city with many prisons, debates whether it needs another. Supporters say the proposed 3,264-bed jail is the only option to avoid insolvency.
The governor of New Jersey is much less fat than he used to be. Many see the accomplishment as essential if the Republican intends to make a 2016 bid for the White House.
Utah resident Jessica Steinhauser, expressing her surprise that she was allowed to wear a pasta strainer on her head in her driver's license photograph. Steinhauser said the strainer represents the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which was created in 2005 to protest the teaching of creationism in Kansas public schools. The Utah DMV said people can wear whatever headgear they want in driver's license photos, so long as their face is visible.
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Data shows states with most overcrowded correctional facilities.
A new report shows that in recent years, six Western states -- Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Oregon -- saw declines in "unauthorized immigrants" entering the country illegally.
A proposal by the administration of Gov. Paul LePage to remove 19- and 20-year-olds from MaineCare violates the Affordable Care Act and would be illegal, a federal appeals judge ruled Monday.
The D.C. Council on Tuesday agreed to overhaul the city’s civil asset forfeiture program with a bill that would give property owners new rights and eventually require that seizure proceeds go into the city’s general fund rather than to the police department.
As promised, Gov. Steve Bullock on Monday unveiled his plan to make another run at asking the Legislature to accept millions in federal dollars to provide health coverage for 70,000 low-income Montanans.
The Senate failed to vote for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline Tuesday, rebuffing a Democratic senator fighting for her political career and setting up a confrontation between President Barack Obama and a Republican-controlled Congress over the pipeline next year.
The country's new USAID strategy has roots in the Gates Foundation's decade-old Grand Challenges, a global incubator for solutions to eradicate diseases, improve health and reduce poverty.
The 9th Circuit says sex offender Internet rules violate free speech protections.
A handful of states expect their prison populations to shrink, but most expect growth, according to a new report. View data for each state.
Most states have employee suggestion programs that financially reward workers for improving services and saving money. Here's how one works.
The $333 million Columbia Pike streetcar, and an adjoining $217 million Crystal City line, had been hailed by advocates as the linchpin of redevelopment efforts along the congested pike and in Bailey’s Crossroads in Fairfax County, but it's not going to happen.
Number of guns Bridgeton, Mo.'s Metro Shooting Supplies sold this week. The store normally sells 30 to 40 firearms a week, but some anticipate rioting after the grand jury concludes its investigation of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown.
He helped rescue New York in the 1970s. Next up: Detroit.
Number of public school students (1.5 percent of the total) in San Francisco who are homeless. California has more homeless children than almost every other state.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's sarcastic Twitter birthday wish Monday to Speaker of the House John Boehner, who has backed raising the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70 and for Medicare to 67.
Average decline in the rate of painkiller-overdose deaths two years after a state legalizes medical marijuana.
Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, confirming that the official announcement that the pope will visit Philadelphia in September, 2015 almost certainly means other U.S. cities will be include, despite the fact that only the stop in Philadelphia has been confirmed by the Vatican so far.
Average increase in the price of a bottle of liquor in Virginia starting Dec. 8 in an effort to plug the state's $2.4 billion budget gap.
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