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After more than 50 years in the accounting world, the Association of Government Accountants' CEO retires.
In this video, Governing writers discuss surprises in the governors races and ballot measures that could steer the national conversation on paid sick leave and budgeting.
Residents of the Nevada city find that it can take two months to get a doctor’s appointment at a local community health center, or an all-day wait.
States backtrack on radio frequency chips for student monitoring after breaches of government and commercial computer databases.
In 2007 the agency tried to plant software in the computer of a suspect in a series of bomb threats to Timberline High School.
A ballot measure is asking voters to approve a plan to divert 5 percent of future oil revenue to fund clean-water projects, wildlife preservation and parks.
Amount Americans spent in 2013 on Halloween costumes for their pets. They donated $3.7 million last year to UNICEF through trick-or-treaters.
Washington, D.C., Councilmember Jim Graham reacting to news that Council Chairman Phil Mendelson delayed until after Election Day making a decision about whether he supports a new soccer stadium, leaving voters with no information on where their candidates stand on the massive public investment.
A spokesman for the Grand Rapids, Michigan, Police Department. A squirrel hopped in the back seat of a patrol car last week. Police quickly took photos and posted pictures on the department website before the animal moved on.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines on dealing with travelers from Ebola-stricken regions Monday, but its lack of firm rules left a patchwork of state-by-state strategies that include mandatory quarantines for some travelers.
Federal education officials have blocked a Kansas plan to let high-schoolers skip state mathematics and English tests and instead focus on college entrance exams and career-oriented tests.
Homeowners in Baltimore can lose their houses for as little as $250 in unpaid taxes — a threshold far lower than in other cities — according to a new Abell Foundation report that urges a change in the practice.
Federal authorities have accused New York City officials of a five-year effort to defraud Medicaid, working with a contractor to exploit loopholes in Medicaid’s computerized billing system to collect reimbursements that amounted to tens of millions of dollars.
The historic hearings on whether Detroit will exit the nation's largest-ever municipal bankruptcy came to a quick end Monday after closing arguments, which were abbreviated by settlements with major creditors.
As fire departments’ costs have increased in recent years, their volunteers have drastically dropped.
In 2012, 722 cyclists were killed nationwide. See data and per capita rates by state.
Everyone from Hollywood to state and local governments want in on the action.
Today’s performance management tools eliminate the old ways of thinking about what government can and can’t do.
Some governments are going back to measuring employees' quantity of output instead of quality.
Dedicated innovation offices are popping up at every level of government. A new report looks at where they are and what they're doing.
Going into the fourth year of drought, farmers in Stratford, Calif., have pumped so much water that the water table below the town fell 100 feet in two years. Land in some spots in the Central Valley has dropped a foot a year.
The group hit hardest by the economic downturn was “multiple-partner fertility” families, or families in which a woman has conceived children by more than one man.
If not for government assistance, millions more would be impoverished, according to the latest data.
In this video, Governing writers discuss ballot measures on medical marijuana, gun rights, income taxes and more.
Most of the fatalities in the past three years happened in a handful of states and were adult men, according to a new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association.
Voters in Louisiana, Maryland and Wisconsin will all weigh in on proposals that, supporters say, will make existing transportation resources go further.
Of all the abortion-related laws passed in the U.S. last year, California's Assembly Bill 154 was the only one that increased the number of abortion providers.
Amount of additional money brought into the University of California system last year through increasing the number of out-of-state students, which caused California parents to complain that their kids' admissions chances were being hurt.
Average additional amount people with DUI arrests in the Chicago suburbs pay to keep their licenses. Defendants allowed to stay behind the wheel paid more in fines and fees than those who lost their licenses.
Aiken, S.C., resident Beverly Huff, complaining about how the lack of competition in the state's congressional elections leads to apathy among elected officials.
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