Alan Greenblatt

Recent Articles

• Check Your Gubernatorial Scorecard
• Jul 14, 2009
• Everybody who attends meetings of the National Governors Association wears a name tag imprinted with a photograph. Everyone, that is, except governors. But as governors ...

• Memphis Musical Chairs
• Jul 13, 2009
• The Shelby County, Tennessee, Commission just voted, 8-0, to elevate Joyce Avery to the chair. Incumbent chair Deidre Malone had sought a second year, but ...

• Obama's Urban Policy Gets Going
• Jul 13, 2009
• It's not getting much attention here in Washington, with all eyes on the Sotomayor hearing, but President Obama's Office of Urban Affairs held ...

• NY Senate to Flip Again
• Jul 9, 2009
• The buzz around Albany this afternoon is that Democrats are about to regain control of the New York State Senate, breaking a month-long stalemate. Pedro ...

• Destroy the Party in Order to Save It
• Jul 6, 2009
• David Frum makes a point similar to what I wrote about on Saturday. And yet - bitter irony - Palin's self-immolation today may yet do ...

• GOP Running Out of Options
• Jul 4, 2009
• Remember the main dynamic of the GOP presidential primary season in 2007-08? It was like musical chairs. One candidate after another would emerge as the ...
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• Retreating, Not Advancing
• Jul 4, 2009
• Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin offers a sobering variation on the Peter Principle -- the idea that because talented people are usually promoted, they "rise ...
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• Sanford Saga: No Crime Involved
• Jul 2, 2009
• Saying his agency doesn't "intend to be used in a political battle about the governor," Reggie Lloyd, head of South Carolina's ...
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• Palin's Profile
• Jul 1, 2009
• Todd Purdum has published a lengthy piece on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- "the sexiest and riskiest brand in the Republican Party" -- ...

• Under Pressure
• Jul 1, 2009
• Always finding new ways to look bad, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford is backing away from a promise to release financial records relating to his ...

• SC Senate President Calls for Sanford Resignation
• Jul 1, 2009
• Glenn McConnell, Senate President Pro Tempore, joins the chorus: "That decision is his alone. I do believe, however, that the Governor has lost the ...

• Will Sanford Be Forced Out?
• Jul 1, 2009
• The number of Republican senators signing Majority Leader Harvey Peeler's petition for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford to resign is up to 12, out of 27 ...

• Resignation Drumbeat Deepens
• Jul 1, 2009
• If S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford hoped to quiet his personal controversy by laying out more of his past indiscretions, the strategy hasn't worked. ...

• Coal-Fired Compromise
• Jun 30, 2009
• No one expected Mark Parkinson to pursue an aggressive agenda as governor of Kansas. When he took over on an interim basis in April, after...

• Too Broke to Fix?
• Jun 30, 2009
• Fiscal shortfalls in the tens of billions of dollars are virtually an annual occurrence in California. But this year, the state's voters seem even more...