This Downtown Master Plan for the City of Asheville, North Carolina won a 2010 Marvin Collins Outstanding Planning Award from the North Carolina Chapter ...

In the first ruling of its kind, a bankruptcy judge held that the city of Vallejo, Calif., has the authority to void its existing union contracts in its effort to reorganize, holding that public workers do not enjoy the same protections Congress gave union workers at private companies.

A Memorandum from President Obama to the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies regarding the ensuring of responsible spending of American Recovery

The author writes about how property taxes revenues, which normally hold up during recessions, will plummet during this housing downturn....

The report by the National League of Cities reviews provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) that are relevant for cities.

As the fiscal crisis around the country threatens more and more local governments, officials are faced with increasing challenges

The conventional response to budget deficits in some local governments and states has been to apply simple across-the-board percentage cuts, for example...