Alan Greenblatt

Recent Articles

• Passing on Rumors
• Sep 16, 2009
• The ironically titled "I Love You Gavin Newsom!" blog has a perhaps wishful post speculating that San Francisco's mayor will soon drop ...

• Why Tourists Are Sustaining Local Culture
• Sep 16, 2009
• I've had the chance this year to visit Chicago and Memphis and in both cities I took in at least one blues show. Judging ...
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• Blogging Metros
• Sep 15, 2009
• One of the positive developments in the fracturing of the media world is that real experts are now blogging on just about every subject, obviating ...

• Stateline's Take
• Sep 10, 2009
• Our friends at Stateline.org have posted their big preview piece on the two races for governor this year, in New Jersey and Virginia. In ...

• Two Towns, One Street, One Way, Both Ways
• Sep 9, 2009
• This story is about a week old but it's too amusing not to pass on. In fact, I first heard about it on NPR'...

• Corporate Cash Decision
• Sep 8, 2009
• I should have gone up there myself, but instead I've been waiting to read other people's accounts of the oral arguments in the ...

• Kitzhaber Comeback?
• Sep 2, 2009
• Former Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber of Oregon*, who served from 1995 to 2003 and has been promoting health care ideas ever since, ended any doubts by announcing ...
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• Corzine Still Losing
• Sep 1, 2009
• Two polls out today show continuing trouble for Jon Corzine, the Democratic governor of New Jersey, who is trailing his Republican challenger. According to Quinnippiac, ...

• New Jersey's 'Non-Operating' School Districts
• Aug 31, 2009
• New Jersey has just 21 counties, but it has more than 600 school districts. Although merging small districts is a problem everywhere, New Jersey's system is so...

• Abdicating the Budget Role to the Governor
• Aug 31, 2009
• Legislators in many states this year, faced with huge budget shortfalls and difficult choices, must have been tempted to just sign off on any plan...

• In Memphis, a Plea for Regionalism
• Aug 31, 2009
• The mayor of Shelby County, Tennessee, is one of the relatively few local officials in America who regularly conducts business across state lines. As mayor...

• Scandals at Home Weaken New Mexico's Governor
• Aug 31, 2009
• When federal officials let it be known that New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson would not be indicted in the pay-to-play scandal that cost him a...

• Perata's Prostate
• Aug 31, 2009
• Don Perata, a former California state Senate president who is running for mayor of Oakland, has been treated for prostate cancer, apparently successfully. Perata got ...

• The Draft Mitch Movement
• Aug 31, 2009
• During his reelection run last year, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels kept insisting that it was going to be his last election ever. And good on ...

• Expensive Minnehaha Race
• Aug 31, 2009
• South Dakota state Sen. Scott Heidepriem is running for governor, which means that the race for his Senate seat next year will likely be the ...