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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

David Morales, a state representative in Rhode Island and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won the Democratic ...

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 ...

The Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon in 2021 burned more than 435,000 acres, including a quarter of the Klamath East forest carbon project. Oregonians buying nicotine pouches like Zyn and Rogue were ...

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 ...