No national standard exists for how many officers departments should have per capita. That's in part due to the fact that population totals don't fully reflect demands placed on law enforcement ...

The order calls for suing and denying grants to states with “onerous and excessive” artificial intelligence regulations, and for recommending a “minimally burdensome” national standard to pre-empt ...

Updating property assessments often causes headaches for political leaders, especially in areas with rapid increases in home ...

The new law will boost funding and restructure oversight of Chicago-area transit agencies as federal pandemic aid expires.

Some non-elite downtowns are seeing positive signs. Detroit of all places is doing well, with a major new office tower about ...

This data is part of a series on segregation in Illinois that resulted from a six-month Governing investigation. Residential segregation has generally slowly declined over the past several decades ...

In the fall of 2011, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire convened a meeting to review one of the proudest accomplishments of her two terms in office -- the state’s Government Management Accountability ...

Commute times vary not only by where a person works, but also by their chosen mode of transportation. On average, the latest Census suggest Americans who drive alone spend an average of nearly 25 ...

The governor’s plan will require expansion beneficiaries to work 80 hours a month or be enrolled in school half time to ...

Betty Ann Hurdle spent 54 years on the Hawaiian homelands waitlist before finally receiving an award in March for property in ...

For the last two years, a group of researchers at the New York University Marron Institute of Urban Management has been building a big database of public transit projects around the world. Their goal: ...

Governments can’t always do all the things they want to do. When their resources are stretched too thin, or when the public determines they don’t want government involved in a particular area -- ...