President Obama released his budget proposal today, and while some details are still forthcoming one item is critical to state and local governments. The budget…
A national survey of city officials released today shows that despite improvement in many economic health indicators, cities around the country report their economies have…
According to the U.S. Dept. of Treasury, the IRS collects $2.4 trillion dollars each tax year from an estimated 234 million tax returns. If the…
As CivSource reported earlier this month, the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), The National League of Cities (NLC), and the National Association of Counties (NACo)…
Mayors and state officials are coming out hard against a proposal to change the tax exempt status of municipal bonds. The U.S. Conference of Mayors…
Washington state Governor Chris Gregoire, and Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, have written to Senate leaders urging them to pass legislation granting states the authority to…
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has put forward a new transportation goal for 2013, and that goal includes a challenge to legislators – find $500 million…
Some New Jersey lawmakers are getting tough on shared services. Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) has passed a bill through the Senate that would allow…
In a letter to Congressional leadership today, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, urged Congressional leadership “…to take swift action to extend…
While the Presidential election, rightly took up most of the coverage of last night’s election, further down the ticket states were voting on a variety…
