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What happened in a Milwaukee courthouse is an escalation of the Trump administration’s assault on the rule of law. And it won’t keep us safer.
Gov. Greg Abbott has brought school vouchers to Texas. It's an achievement that can be studied by politicians of all parties.
The House has twice passed bills that would end taxes for individuals who make money on stocks and other investments. It’s trying to reach final agreement on a cut with the state Senate.
Business owners complained it was impossible to comply with energy reduction targets. Denver has modified its rules and Colorado lawmakers may follow suit statewide
A new law allows for removing elementary school children from a classroom, and then assessing the causes of the problematic behavior. Schools may need funding for more counselors to do so, however.
Traditional pensions and 401(k)-style government plans have undergone major changes in portfolio structure since 2000, mostly for the better. But recent market gyrations remind us that there are always opportunities for improvement.
Noncitizen voting is extremely rare, and a presidential executive order would create unfunded mandates and unintended consequences, two former Republican secretaries of state argue.
New legislation would shield officers from prosecution for acts taken in the line of duty. Critics say no one should be unaccountable.
In contrast to what’s going on in Washington, state and local leaders are leveraging the technology to make government genuinely work better.
Jurors deadlocked in a bribery case involving Democratic state Sen. Emil Jones III, the third high-profile Illinois public corruption case to end inconclusively over the last several months.
There are a number of steps that state and local leaders could take to narrow the funding gap by tens of billions, making the most of the money that is available to keep the faucets flowing.
Homeschooling first boomed nationwide in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the trend has had staying power. The number of homeschool students in Minnesota has jumped about 18% since the 2022-23 school year.
City commissioners voted to welcome state auditors to look for fraud and wasteful spending on their books.
States that are adding more housing and approving more permits are seeing their birth rates go up.
The billion-dollar voucher plan will take effect at the start of the 2026-27 school year.
To address the housing crisis, we need to pick up the pace of development without sacrificing commitments to low-income residents and environmental protections.
Starbase, the Texas home of SpaceX, will likely vote to become a city next month. Then the work of creating a government from scratch will begin.
Republicans are three times as likely as Democrats to believe the false claim that measles vaccines contribute to autism and far more likely to believe the vaccine is worse than the disease.
Over the years, Los Angeles voters have approved billions in homeless funding — and created layer upon layer of independent institutions.
Letitia James and other Democratic attorneys general have emerged as Trump’s leading antagonists, with lawsuits that have been essentially relentless.
Most of Alabama may be covered in forests, but asphalt still reigns on school playgrounds. The Alabama Forestry Foundation wants to change that.
By cutting out middlemen and dealing directly with pharmacies, Ohio’s Medicaid system saved money even as it dramatically increased payments to pharmacists.
The causes of these alarming gaps in equitable access to emergency care are complex. Fixing the problem won’t come from patchwork efforts or temporary fixes.
The new laws will make it easier for long-term inmates to apply for parole and for ex-inmates to expunge their criminal records after serving time.
Voters approve most transit funding requests put before them, but after passage the measures have drawn legal opposition in places like Austin, Nashville and Phoenix.
Programs in Colorado and Illinois home in on finding and supporting health-care practitioners willing to work — and hopefully remain — in underserved rural areas.
These programs align with core American values. Democrats shouldn’t be the only ones defending them.
Voters in three states enshrined Medicaid expansions in their state constitutions. Those states could be on the hook if Congress cuts program funding significantly.
Salem, Ore., is in budget straits, in part because untaxed state buildings make up 8 percent of the property in the city. Tina Kotek is backing a local property tax increase as lawmakers consider ways to help the city directly.
The change is most dramatic in Silicon Valley, which is seeing more highly educated immigrants arrive from India and China.
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