Ohio has become the fifth state to require photoelectric smoke alarms in new homes. In the state’s first official acknowledgement that traditional ionization alarms are insufficient, new building ...

Developer Waldo Jaquith has launched a public beta of Virginia Decoded, an astonishingly user-friendly presentation of his home state’s code. It’s the first iteration of Jaquith’s open-government ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday called on state lawmakers to eliminate nearly one-third of the Ohio Administrative Code, saying it’s unneeded and makes it unnecessarily difficult for ...

In November 2011, industry consultant Robert DuPont urged the head of the newly created state Department of Safety and Professional Services to continue the state's tradition of using advisory ...