Alan Greenblatt

Recent Articles

• 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 ...

• Douglas Steps Down
• Aug 27, 2009
• James Douglas, Vermont's Republican governor, announced today that he will not seek a fifth term next year. Vermont is one of the bluest states ...

• Deeds Mixes Things Up
• Aug 11, 2009
• The Virginia governor's race has been a sleepy affair since the two candidates won their nominations a couple of months back. For the first ...

• Sanford Grounded
• Aug 10, 2009
• You probably saw the news last week that Jenny Sanford has moved out of the governor's mansion in South Carolina. Today, the Associated Press ...

• Bad News for the GOP
• Aug 6, 2009
• Yesterday, I promised to post some bad news for the GOP, to leaven the good news. But maybe this isn't really news -- people ...

• The Good News for the GOP
• Aug 5, 2009
• I'm going to have two posts about the prospects of the Republican Party today, one containing good news and one bad. As these things ...

• A Call to Order
• Jul 31, 2009
• People complained for decades that the New York State Senate was dysfunctional. But that was before it shut down altogether. In April, a special committee...

• Taming of a Deficit
• Jul 31, 2009
• San Diego just closed an $83 million hole in its budget and is looking at a shortfall conservatively estimated at $115 million next year. For a place...

• Mind Your Meters
• Jul 31, 2009
• Parking has gotten worse in Chicago, and many see Mayor Richard Daley's decision to privatize parking meters as the culprit. Daley has been a privatization...
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• A Succession Question
• Jul 31, 2009
• South Carolina is one of the most Republican states in the country, but picking a successor to Governor Mark Sanford is going to be a...

• Off to a Great Start
• Jul 31, 2009
• As expected, Kay Bailey Hutchison announced this week that she'll resign her U.S. Senate seat in order to challenge Texas Gov. Rick Perry ...
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• Watch Herenton Retire
• Jul 30, 2009
• Many people in Memphis have said lately that they'll believe long-time Mayor W.W. Herenton will retire when they see it. Well, you can ...

• Cash-Strapped Zoo: "Give Us Money or the Gorilla Gets It"
• Jul 30, 2009
• I was up in Boston earlier this week, so of course I heard lots of talk about the Henry Louis Gates/Officer Crowley controversy. But ...
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• Who Resigns and Who Doesn't (Updated)
• Jul 29, 2009
• I've long been fascinated by the question of why certain politicians don't resign from office even when it's clear to all around ...

• Stanley Resigns
• Jul 29, 2009
• A week ago, news broke that Tennessee state Sen. Paul Stanley had had an affair with a 22-year-old legislative intern in his office. Last night, ...