Festus Okoye, a lawyer, was National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) between July 25, 2018, and July 24, 2023. He served as the primary spokesperson for the ...

Congressional Republicans and President Trump are pushing voting legislation that would require voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship. That would be difficult for millions of eligible ...

Two Progressive Labour Party MPs broke with party ranks last night as a decades-long dispute over the municipal governance of ...

Sunshine Week, March 15-21, is a nonpartisan collaboration among groups in the journalism, civic, education, government and private sectors that shines a light on the importance of public records and ...

The 31-year-old arrived at his voting place in Portsmouth and handed the poll worker his driver’s license, just as he had done in other towns when arriving to vote. She said that would no longer do.

Indiana communities are now more incentivized to approve data center projects and can no longer implement rental cap ordinances, like the ones recently implemented in Hamilton County, because of a ...

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act does not tamper with local zoning regulations or include unfunded mandates, experts say.

Lawmakers should learn from their costly pension mistakes that paved the way for CalPERS to accrue over $160 billion in unfunded pension liabilities for benefits promised to current and past ...

Lawmakers have amended the Live Local Act twice since its 2023 passage as they continue refining Florida’s flagship ...

After Gov. JB Pritzker presented his budget proposal last month, the immediate reaction was fairly ho-hum. At first blush, the plan looked like a make-no-waves budget designed largely to keep state ...

With one last batch, Gov. Mike Braun has signed the last of the General Assembly's bills into law, including a law cracking down on commercial drivers' licenses in response to recent fatal collisions ...