Pennsylvania local governments are designed to be led by ordinary citizens, but finding and keeping the right people to do the job have become challenging for municipalities of all sizes.

Local government units (LGUs) should still have enough power and funds to respond to the needs of their constituencies, whether or not efforts to amend the Constitution to shift the government to ...

Local government units (LGUs) have no power to stop the operations of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office’s small town lottery (STL) and other similar lotteries in their cities and towns ...

B ecause if the president can’t force citizens to be vaccinated, then all the more so local government executives. The foregoing is in response to a recent statement by a top government official that ...

The Constitution vests the President with the power of supervision, not control, over local government units (LGUs). Such power enables him to see to it that LGUs and their officials execute their ...

Voice of the average citizen. Each government unit on the local level is run by a governing board in Pennsylvania. Varying numbers of members — generally between three and seven — make ...