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Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Erika Bolstad Stroll around America's vacant downtowns, and a seemingly obvious solution emerges to the housing shortages and homelessness problems in many states: Why not turn all those unoccupied offices into living spaces? Especially in cities such as Portland,
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Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Leigh Giangreco Ohio Governor Mike DeWine didn't mince words last month when he weighed in on a legislative plan to increase speed limits on certain Ohio highways: He is a no.
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Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Elaine Povich Last September, when Baltimore resident Tzu Yang went grocery shopping for his intellectually disabled daughter with a food benefits card that he thought was worth about $300, he discovered at the checkout that the card had no value left.
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Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Christine Vestal As a dangerous new additive found in fentanyl and other street drugs surges from coast to coast, health officials in nearly every state are scrambling to track it.
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Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Alex Brown For five years, a woman known as the Chicken Lady of South Jersey urged local officials in Haddon Township, New Jersey to allow her and other residents to keep chickens in their backyards. She eventually won them over — but
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Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Jenni Bergal One morning last week, after more than 31 inches of snow fell in the previous two days, Utah transportation workers opened a huge garage-like door in a building near a state highway and fired a military howitzer up a
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Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Christine Vestal Ever since the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl began showing up in the illicit drug supply in 2014, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has skyrocketed — exceeding all other accidental deaths, including car crashes and gun violence.
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Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Jenni Bergal At least 18 states, all led by Republican governors, have banned staffers' use on government devices of the social media app TikTok over concerns about the possible security risks posed by the Chinese-owned company. They say the app