Transportation officials say the state needs flexibility to buy diesel buses as electric bus supply shortages threaten ...
Sweeping state limits — or eliminating the tax altogether — are politically appealing. But cuts in property tax rates ...
Grants once slated for trail networks and pedestrian improvements are being canceled or delayed, leaving state and local ...
The nationwide shortage is leading to hundreds of criminal cases being dismissed while harming defendants. Better pay would help, but efforts to expand the pipeline are needed.
Officials from both parties have halted proposed warehouse conversions in several states, even as federal officials continue ...
With oil prices spiking at a time when voters are focused on affordability, states could find it even harder to pay for transportation needs.
Massachusetts mayors have their red ink ready for a statewide rent control ballot measure after a study found the initiative would eliminate $300 billion in property values, as supporters call it a ...
Between 2023 and 2025, the city cleared encampments and quickly built new shelters. It reduced the unsheltered homeless ...
Health care and other non-pension benefits for retired public workers, collectively called “other post-employment benefits” (OPEB), remained severely underfunded in 2022, according to the latest data ...
The notion that we can assume people suffering from substance use disorders will freely choose what is best for them and their children is regularly undermined by reality. Too many children have paid ...
Proposed legislation would allow schools to check immigration status and potentially deny enrollment or charge tuition, ...
This long-depressed city has overcome some of its most serious problems. Maybe others can accomplish the same thing.