Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Winter 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. The messenger is becoming as important as the message. State and local leaders have picked up a ...

Detroit’s QLINE streetcar system, launched with foundation and private-sector funding, now carries more than a million riders annually. Approximately 45 percent of Americans do not have access ...

More than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally expanded its interpretation of the Second Amendment, federal courts throughout the country continue to strike down state restrictions ...

The estimated number of glasses of champagne consumed by Americans on New Year’s Eve. Given the Census Bureau’s recent announcement that the U.S. population has exceeded 340 million, that ...

Frank White, county executive for Jackson County, Kan. The jurisdiction could lose more than $70 million in federal funds if county leaders can't agree about how to allocate them by Dec. 31.

Chris DeCardy, president of the Heinz Endowments. That foundation, along with others in Pittsburgh, has helped the city change its economic focus to robotics, AI, life sciences and advanced ...