The city replaced a cumbersome hiring process with a digital system that can get candidates into the police academy in less than two months.

Falling birth rates and families leaving Baltimore are shrinking school enrollment, forcing difficult decisions about buildings that have long served as anchors of their neighborhoods.

The state is investing opioid settlement dollars in mobile methadone clinics designed to overcome the transportation barriers facing rural residents.

The Trump administration is imposing stricter financial tests on Medicaid waivers, potentially limiting states’ ability to use them to expand services and try new approaches.

Healthcare providers in Texas say the Rural Health Transformation Program provides much-needed funding. But they worry about ...

There have been some promising reforms to occupational licensing, but too many states still erect barriers that don’t reflect ...

New restrictions will dramatically shrink the number of vaping products legally available, creating a potential test case for ...

The governor made faster permitting and major investment central to his argument that government can get things done. Growing ...

It's no secret that Massachusetts suffers from an abundance of red tape, outdated laws, and obsolete regulations. One law still on the books requires at least three bells to be attached to horses ...

Mona Miyasato has been the Santa Barbara County executive officer, the top unelected official, since 2013. She’s retiring ...

Mayor Matt Tuerk and his family depended on federal food aid for a time during his youth. "I didn’t view it as an entitlement," he says. "I viewed it as a piece of getting by as a kid.” Mayors are ...

Jared Brey is a senior writer for Governing, covering transportation, housing and infrastructure. He previously worked for PlanPhilly, Philadelphia magazine, and Next City, and his work has appeared ...