As electric bikes and scooters reach motorcycle-like speeds, rising injuries and deaths are prompting states to reconsider ...

Concerns about Postal Service delays are pushing voters toward early in-person voting, prompting election officials to adjust staffing and hours ahead of the midterms.

A state law requiring hospitals to automatically screen patients for financial assistance has expanded access to free and ...

There’s a lot of chatter about a “wave election,” but when it comes to state legislative races the lesson from the past is ...

Groups that local governments count on to fill service gaps in the face of cuts to federal programs like SNAP and Medicaid ...

Texas Republican lawmakers have spent several years eroding local control, especially in the state's largest Democratic-controlled cities such as Austin. Two years after Texas lawmakers enacted a ...

In this episode of The Common Thread, Governing CEO Cathilea Robinett sits down with Santiago (Santi) Garces, former Chief ...

A shared insurance pool covering 24 counties faces a $25 million shortfall as rising legal claims force local governments to ...

State universities are seeing their first enrollment increase since 2013, fueled in part by a surge in transfer students from ...

Pennsylvania is pushing to expand the use of artificial intelligence tools in government agencies, and local governments are set to follow suit. For local and state agencies, it’s a way to ease the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order next to a bust of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the Oval Office of the White House May 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. President ...

As we saw in the 1990s, the best reforms do not begin in Washington. This year’s elections will produce a crop of new ...