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Thirty years ago, Governing began honoring top state and local officials around the country. Here are the members of this ...

West Virginia had no private school choice options at all before Patricia Rucker made vouchers universal. Nearly a dozen ...

Dozens of jurisdictions are seeking damages from fossil fuel companies. Jeffrey B. Simon, an attorney representing Multnohmah ...

Democrats receive increasing levels of support from college-educated Americans, but this has triggered a populist backlash ...

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Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley convinced the legislature to allow localities to raise taxes. That helped his county ...

The field of public health has been notoriously behind the times when it comes to data. Dr. Philip Huang has changed that in ...

The Republican has rewritten the tax code, streamlined agencies and upended the state’s approach on issues ranging from ...

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Earlier this year, ProPublica reported the story of aspiring homeowners like Abdinoor Igal and other members of Minnesota’s Somali American community who risked their financial well-being to ...