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 ...

In this episode of The Common Thread, Governing CEO Cathilea Robinett sits down with Santiago (Santi) Garces, former Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston and one of Governing’s 2026 Public ...

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

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

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

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

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

A former school in rural Caswell County has been transformed into 53 apartments, offering a model for preserving historic ...

Other states can learn from its nimble, efficient approach to getting federal high-speed internet funds to where they’re ...

Some public transit authorities lock in fuel prices ahead of time through a practice called hedging. The practice is paying off this year as fuel prices reach record highs. Over time it’s meant to ...