Members of the National Guard patrol at the National Mall on August 26 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) The president’s decision to take over the District of Columbia police, along ...

Oklahoma’s Own In Focus: Ryan Walters Pushes For Local Control Over Education Funding Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters has announced plans to reduce federal control over education by ...

Public media has always been about trust, service, and connection. In today’s rapidly evolving media and technology landscape, stations must balance the increasing complexities of broadcast technology ...

New Hampshire politicians have invoked plenty of villains over the years: Out-of-state special interests. Unaccountable judges. Massachusetts. But these days, many in the State House have fixed their ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I first heard the term “local control” as an education reporter at Chalkbeat. I was told early on that to understand education in Colorado, that was one of ...

Kansas City is the only major municipality that does not control its own police department. The governor appoints a five-member board that hires the chief and sets policy. The form of governance, in ...

Contributing columnist Glenn Rogers writes that the Texas Republican party has abandoned its value of local control. In this, along with other columns published nearby, conservative writers examine ...

Supporters of state control say the system was established to limit political influence on the police department in the 1930s. But the 150-year history of state control dates back to the Civil War.

The president’s decision to take over the District of Columbia police, along with expanding immigration and policing enforcement in blue cities such as Chicago, undermines a constitutional framework ...