Carl Smith is a senior staff writer for Governing and covers a broad range of issues affecting states and localities. He can ...

Governing, covering transportation, housing and infrastructure. He previously worked for PlanPhilly, Philadelphia magazine, ...

A volunteer hands out bottled water to residents of Jackson, Miss., last fall at a distribution site set up by World Central Kitchen. The city’s clean-water emergency was caused in part by a shortage ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom cleared his state’s death row earlier this month, commuting the death sentences of over 500 inmates in the ...

Democrats prevailed in Secretary of State races in the battleground states of Arizona, Michigan and Nevada, and flipped the ...

As soon as next year, student loan borrowers in default could face garnished wages and seized tax refunds. States are ...

Federal transportation infrastructure funding has been directed toward those parts of the country where workers experience long commutes. Broadband funding has been allocated to counties where fewer ...

Governors often like to say they have the best job in politics, enjoying lots of agenda-setting deference in their home ...

Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa won the race for governor, the first Democrat to win the office since 1990. She beat incumbent Greg Abbott, who was seeking a fourth term.

With the Games' budget climbing to $7.3 billion, city and state officials are confronting rising infrastructure costs and ...

Following rollbacks to the state's landmark climate law, newly elected legislators are preparing to push for greater clean ...

More than 1 in 10 working-age Americans didn’t have health coverage in 2026, according to a new survey. Many who did still deferred care because of cost.