We tend to focus on federal matters but for most people the face of government is to be found in the local agencies providing basic services such as police protection, ambulance services, welfare, and medical care for the poor. This is where the erosion of public services is being felt.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.27.2012
Now you can live in an historic building rent-free for decades. The catch? You'll need to use a whole lot of elbow grease. The states of Massachus...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.16.2012
Student debt weighing on your mind? You might be surprised about where the worst of it comes from. A recent Reuters analysis of student debt at var...
Reuters | Posted 04.20.2012
April 19 (Reuters) - U.S. state tax revenue has finally returned to its peaks before the recession and likely continued growing at the beginning of ...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.05.2012
Imagine having to pay to sit on the grass. That could be happening soon in North Las Vegas, where the city council is considering charging residen...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.04.2012
Kansas state courts will shut down for five Fridays this spring to save money in a state budget crisis that includes a $1.4 million hole in the court ...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.02.2012
Public colleges can't do it all, at least not when the economy is weak. More public colleges are farming out the non-educational aspects of their c...
The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.29.2012
President Obama got support from an unlikely ally against GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum's "snob" comment -- namely, Newt Gingrich. Gingr...
Deborah Howlett | Posted 04.28.2012
About that 10 percent income tax cut that Gov. Christie promised us last week ... don't start planning that dream vacation quite yet.
HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 01.24.2012
This week, a pair of governors called for something that just two years ago might have been politically untenable: permanent targeted state tax increa...
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 03.18.2012
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday tried to turn his annual budget address into a kickoff for taming Albany's status quo of politics an...
AP | By DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 01.15.2012
NEW YORK -- A Malaysian company's plan to build a $4 billion convention center and big-time casino on the outskirts of New York City could be the bigg...
Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.10.2012
At a time when the federal government is starved for cash -- and facing layoffs and cuts in services across the board -- more and more corporations ar...
Andrew Coulson | Posted 02.12.2012
Given that spending thousands of millions of additional dollars hasn't noticeably improved outcomes... why keep spending it? If we really care about children's education, the way to show it is by ensuring that every dollar we spend actually accomplishes something.
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.14.2011
New reports indicate that both Alabama and New York have seen revenue drops in recent years, while one state reports a jump and another reports holdin...
AP | By BECKY BOHRER | Posted 01.05.2012
JUNEAU, Alaska -- The budget questions that sent Alaska lawmakers into special session this year had nothing to do with austerity measures or disagree...
Posted 01.04.2012
California's government could face a budget gap of up to $8 billion in its next fiscal year, substantially more than the $3.1 billion shortfall pr...
East Providence Patch | Patrick Luce | Posted 12.27.2011
The head of the Rhode Island firefighters' union accused General Treasurer Gina Raimondo of "cooking the books," lying to the General Assembly in an a...
AP | By CRISTINA SILVA and JOAN LOWY | Posted 11.17.2011
By CRISTINA SILVA and JOAN LOWY, The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The Hoover Dam, one of the world's great engineering feats, is marred by ro...
AP | By DAVID A. LIEB | Posted 11.12.2011
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- President Barack Obama's latest jobs plan calls for $130 billion in aid to state and local governments, providing either a welc...
HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.21.2011
WASHINGTON -- While the current economic downturn is often referred to as the worst since the Great Depression, today's conditions are by some measure...
Vanita Gupta | Posted 10.09.2011
The financial crisis has created an unprecedented "interest convergence" -- an opportunity to ally with unlikely allies to advocate for and enact reforms to stem prison growth and spending.
Posted 10.08.2011
By Yonat Shimron and Adelle M. Banks c. 2011 Religion News Service RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) In the two months since North Carolina's legislature laid o...
AP | By DON THOMPSON and JEFF BARNARD | Posted 09.21.2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The wildfire season in California has been tame so far, but that isn't stopping lawmakers from trying to make sure the cash-stra...
AP | By BRIAN WITTE | Posted 09.21.2011
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Virginia's governor is livid that his famously tight-fisted state could face higher borrowing costs to build roads and schools. Mary...
Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 05.29.2012