Knox County's day-to-day operations are run by eight officeholders who aren't subject to the same oversight as other elected ...

House and Senate negotiators have been polishing the major reform proposal all session. Leadership added new wrinkles at the ...

A bill’s price tag can make or break its chances at the Legislature. The governor’s budget office is tasked with calculating ...

Increased oversight of making rules in state agencies is expected to be discussed in the North Carolina Senate when lawmakers ...

But as the hearing dragged on, it became clear there was a fundamental disagreement what diversity, equity and inclusion even ...

HB2824 would spell out that all testimony offered to any legislative panel would be presumed sworn, setting the stage for ...

“The problem is it’s very hard to get our executive branch excited about accountability and efficiency. So this creature, unlike the federal creature, is a creature of the legislative branch rather ...

The FTC was not an Executive Branch agency as it exercised “quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial powers.” The Court held that the President could not as a consequence fire an FTC commissioner ...

There's the legislative branch, the judicial branch and the executive branch. But in Tennessee, there's an unusual fourth branch at the county level that flies under the radar of most residents.