Just one council may run services in a county in the west of England in a bid to simplify local government and cut costs. Councillors in Gloucestershire have been working on plans to merge the ...

Journal Editorial Report: Obama pushes California’s Prop 50 ahead of election day. With most of Washington shut down, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recalled employees to ensure that one statistic was ...

There is confusion over what will happen to the debts owed by Woking Borough Council (pictured) and Spelthorne Borough Council One of the two new unitary authorities confirmed for Surrey could be ...

Stripped to its constitutional essence, the current government shutdown amounts to another bid to expand presidential power. How it ultimately resolves could one day be up to the six justices in the ...

Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié Concordia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. President Donald Trump set ...

The Supreme Court seems likely to embrace "unitary executive" theory (UET) in its upcoming case in Trump v. Slaughter, at least in so far as that theory mandates that the president have the power to ...

Creating five new unitary authorities for Sussex would save £52.4m a year, Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC) leaders have said. The council's proposal for restructuring councils includes expanding ...

Thurrock Council and Rochford DC have each produced a different four-unitary configuration for Essex, bringing the total number business cases for the government to consider to four. Last week Essex ...

Worcester City Council rejected the alternative vision of one unitary council for the whole county, at a meeting on Tuesday (September 2). Councillors expressed a preference for north and south ...

Exeter City Council has set out its proposals create a new unitary by including 49 parishes from three districts in its local government reorganisation vision. The Labour district has faced opposition ...

New research from Michigan State University, led by agricultural systems scientist Bruno Basso, addresses a major problem in agricultural carbon markets: how to set an accurate starting point, or ...