Innovation must come with transparency, safeguards and human oversight. We need to deploy the technology in ways that enhance ...

Jesse Rothman is a senior fellow at the Council for Criminal Justice. He can be reached at [email protected].

A new state law will require public schools to incorporate Native American mistreatment into the Spanish Colonization and California Gold Rush curricula. The state Department of Education will consult ...

A multifront effort to restore passenger rail service between Scranton, Pa., and New York City is losing some of its chief advocates in Washington, D.C., but officials pointing to projected economic ...

The new law will guarantee small business employees 40 hours of paid sick leave and 56 hours per year for people working at businesses with more than 20 employees. But business owners are concerned ...

Nearly 80 Michigan municipalities have challenged the legality of the state’s processing of permitting requests for large-scale solar and wind energy facilities — a controversial policy passed by ...

A new report from Brookings shows how state departments of transportation have a free hand to spend on highway projects, but don’t keep good track of progress toward specific goals.

His second presidency could recolor the landscape for federal spending, with ramifications for states, local governments, schools and public pensions. Governors and mayors will need to try to discern ...

More than half of California renters spend at least 30 percent of their income on housing, making it the fifth-highest rate in the country. But a measure that would have lifted restrictions on local ...

The increase of energy demand across the country is growing to rates that haven’t been seen since the end of World War II.

More than four years after the pandemic began dramatically changing downtown economies, recent information shows that cities are finally recovering from the effects of the widespread shift to remote ...

Police officers monitor the East High School campus in Denver. The district's board had voted in 2020 to remove them from campus, but they were reinstated in April 2023 after a shooting at the school.