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That’s the vacancy rate among corrections officers in New Hampshire Department of Corrections, a staffing shortage so severe the state canceled its August training academy and hired no new officers ...
Colby Pellegrino, deputy general manager of resources at the Southern Nevada Water Authority, as the seven states that rely on the Colorado River struggle to reach consensus on how to share dwindling water supplies. With a federal deadline approaching and talks at a stalemate, Pellegrino said a long-term, 20-year agreement is increasingly unrealistic, making a short-term, five-year framework the most likely path forward as governors prepare for negotiations with the Trump administration. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Across the U.S., lawmakers are introducing a wave of bills that would either restrict or support federal immigration enforcement.
Nebraska becomes the 12th state to bar diversion of federal survivor benefits toward foster-care costs.
State prisons are full, forcing Idaho to house inmates in county jails and out-of-state facilities at sharply higher expense.
New Census estimates show the state added more residents than any state in 2025 even as immigration and domestic migration drop to their lowest rates in years.
Whether they come from abroad or elsewhere in the U.S., they are reshaping communities in profound ways. That’s not likely to change.
Chatbots with inadequate safeguards are harming our children, rewiring their brains in ways that lead to anxiety, depression and self-harm. State lawmakers should take swift action to protect them.
That’s the value of the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar, a gap three downtown Las Vegas casinos are choosing to ignore by creating their own exchange rate ...
Chris Madel, a Minneapolis attorney who announced he was ending his campaign for Minnesota governor as a Republican, denouncing federal immigration enforcement actions in the state as an “unmitigated disaster.” Madel said the operation, launched amid Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, had expanded well beyond public safety goals, leaving U.S. citizens fearful and raising serious constitutional concerns, including reports of warrantless home raids and the targeting of people based on appearance. (Washington Post)
State legislators introduce hundreds of K-12 proposals each year, but less than 10 percent reach the governor’s desk.
Parents say inconsistent and confusing local attendance policies undermine efforts to reduce chronic absenteeism and erode confidence in districts’ accountability.
Kansas flex-plexes and Indiana microcenters are turning underused spaces into multiprovider childcare facilities.
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In 2026, AI governance shifts from policy intent to operational reality as agencies confront visibility, risk and accountability challenges across systems already shaping outcomes.
As federal aid shrinks in 2026, wide disparities in sales tax reliance highlight the limits and risks of leaning more heavily on consumption taxes.
Plans for an autonomous vehicle future are being made in many large cities. But how close are those plans to being realized?
A market crash doesn’t seem imminent, but there are lessons for public financiers, pension funds and policymakers from collapses of the past.
That’s how many people — more than half the U.S. population — faced disruptions as one of the country’s most severe winter storms in years swept from the Southwest to the Northeast last weekend ...
New York state Sen. Jeremy Cooney, chair of the body’s Transportation Committee, urging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to block New York City from joining other major cities testing autonomous vehicles. Cooney, who is sponsoring legislation to allow driverless vehicles that meet safety standards, said the city risks sidelining itself as companies such as Waymo push for broader deployment through lobbying and regulatory approvals. (Politico)
Sixty-five people from a long-standing encampment have been placed in stable housing, and outreach efforts are expanding under a structured rapid-rehousing strategy.
With pandemic-era aid gone and long-term structural challenges looming, 2026 budget debates will test lawmakers’ ability to balance short-term gaps and future risk.
State officials say federal agents violated Minnesota law, blocked investigators and left a crime scene unsecured, deepening a rift with the Trump administration.
How people feel about where they live is an overlooked factor in engaging them in civic life. There are ways to boost those feelings.
Amount in tickets issued in 2025 by a speed camera on Washington, D.C.’s Potomac River Freeway, topping the list of 10 of the District’s automatic traffic cameras that together issued $65 million worth of citations ...
Paris Hilton, reality TV star and socialite, urging the House to take up the Senate-passed DEFIANCE Act, which would allow individuals to sue over nonconsensual intimate images generated by artificial intelligence. Speaking alongside a bipartisan group of lawmakers, Hilton said her own experience with nonconsensual imagery underscores the need to give victims legal recourse beyond takedown requests. (Roll Call)
Rising use of force by federal agents is testing the limits of state authority and civil rights protections.
Thousands of unplugged wells from a century of drilling are leaking pollution, while the state struggles to track money meant to fix the problem.
The incentives are reshaping rural economies, with debates emerging about oversight and long-term community costs.
Public officials can make the greatest difference when they focus on their communities’ housing, transportation and utility costs.
Advanced systems are reshaping professional judgment, forcing local governments to rethink accountability, performance management and labor relations.
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