In just a week from today, the Healthy Community Collaborative will host its “Our Community, Our Future” panel discussion.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of state & federal policy and politics. US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) speaks during a town hall in Green ...

If many of us operated our household budgets like the federal government, we would be considered reckless and irresponsible. And yet, here we are again, facing another showdown over a shutdown. The ...

The west Michigan Republican is introducing a bipartisan bill to tie return to appropriations order with congressional pay.

Sometimes it can seem that AI is all that anyone wants to talk about when it comes to government technology. But that's not the only big trend of the moment. Federal funding stands as another hot — ...

While the commissioners anticipate having enough money to make it through the end of the year, other counties are starting to ...

The federal government has shut down for the first time since 2018. The first shutdown in over five years began just after midnight on Wednesday, after a standoff between Senate Republicans and ...

Iowa Democrats said the impacts of President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation law – alongside agriculture economy troubles caused by trade wars – puts the state budget in a dangerous position as ...