Last year, the state House fell a few votes short of advancing a constitutional amendment to allow the construction of eight destination resort casinos. It is unlikely that the state Senate will have ...

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas wants Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft held in contempt of court for certifying a measure forcing Kansas City to pay more for its police on the August ballot ...

Three South Dakota counties will ask voters during the June 4 primary if they should ban the use of tabulator machines in future local elections. If the measures pass, the auditor’s offices in each ...

Crews in the Patapsco River are still cutting and lifting large chunks of what remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge as they clear the way to restore the full 700-foot-wide channel into the Port of ...

In the current political environment, it seems nearly impossible to pass bipartisan federal legislation that significantly ...

The two are intertwined, yet too often they aren’t viewed that way. Aligning them is a strategy for creating strong rural and ...

For one family in suburban Houston, early May was a rerun of a terrible memory from seven years before, when Hurricane Harvey ...

The podcast cover image for this The Future in Context (TFIC) episode features an AI-generated image of a For Sale sign on the TikTok app (DALL-E 3). The debate over the potential TikTok ban, or ...

California has long relied on its prison population to battle wildfires. But a steady decline in the state’s incarcerated ...

Her prosecution of Trump has drawn controversy and legal challenges, but it hasn't hurt her at home. The speaker of the Texas ...

Over the last five years, half the nation’s jobs were created in Texas and Florida. California and New York fell to the ...

They’re resolved through bizarre, often comical procedures, involving everything from coin tosses to cowboy hats to ping-pong ...