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 ...

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 ...

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

As Louisiana prepares for a $100 billion spaceport, Brownsville's transformation reveals the economic benefits and community ...

There’s no simple answer. States and their local governments both have had a role in creating the problem, and both can have ...

A former U.S. diplomat will coordinate efforts to address decades of cross-border pollution as new estimates put the economic toll at up to $503.5 million annually.

As the agenda of an academic gathering in public budgeting and finance demonstrated, research is increasingly built for ...

Some flood barriers are prohibited under federal rules, while others fall into a regulatory gray area that leaves homeowners ...

A proposed law would require independent testing of powerful AI models for catastrophic<br/>risks, even as the White House ...