New York City’s capital budget for building and maintaining essential infrastructure is dense, complicated, and opaque, making it difficult to examine how the city spends its funds and on what ...

Jail death: Cuyahoga County officials released a video on Monday showing the moments an inmate collapsed and died while playing basketball at the county corrections center last year, Olivia Mitchell ...

At a time of economic uncertainty, Baltimore is considering a $932-million capital budget for the 2026 fiscal year, its largest investment in more than two decades. The capital budget includes $125 ...

The two leaders of New York's state legislature vetoed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital plan, which has a massive funding gap. The leaders of both houses of the state legislature, ...

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With state revenue forecasts looking less rosy and campaign promises to cut property taxes, Kansas lawmakers and the governor are set up for what could be a more politically charged budgeting process ...

Now, with roughly $3 billion in property-tax reforms on the books, leaders say they can look voters in the eye and argue they’ve tried to bring relief and predictability — even as a full repeal effort ...