PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland City Council discussed the city's transition to a new structure of government on Wednesday. In 2022, voters approved charter amendments that will start January 1, 2025.

There is obviously a substantial consensus in public discourse that the country’s protracted crisis of underdevelopment since independence is partly a function of the inefficacy, ineffectiveness and ...

ST. MARTIN PARISH — After Monday’s Saint Martinville City Council meeting, residents will have the opportunity to change their local government structure, which has been in place for over 100 years.

In 1980, the price of oil hit an all-time high of just below $40 per barrel, and Houston was riding high. Harris County's population increased by almost 50 percent between 1970 and 1980. There was ...