Anne Jordan

Recent Articles

• Taking a Read on Crime
• Jan 18, 2008
• Thousands of public libraries have jumped on the "One Book, One City" bandwagon since Seattle sponsored the first citywide reading program a decade ...

• Neverending Stories
• May 21, 2007
• This is part of a series of reflections on a conference I attended May 4 & 5 in Cleveland: "The Changing Face of Cities," organized ...

• Library Novelties
• May 14, 2007
• This is part of a series of reflections on a conference I attended May 4 & 5 in Cleveland: "The Changing Face of Cities," organized ...

• Immigrant Gateways
• May 10, 2007
• This is part of a series of reflections on a conference I attended last weekend in Cleveland: "The Changing Face of Cities," organized ...

• Looking a Gift Ban in the Mouth
• May 8, 2007
• After attending a conference this weekend in Cleveland, I can report firsthand that Ohio Governor Ted Strickland's new ethics rules are being taken seriously. Both ...
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• Liquor Control
• Mar 14, 2007
• Yesterday, one of my colleagues here on the 13th Floor was telling me about the decent wine he could get for less than $4 a bottle ...

• Winning Water
• Mar 5, 2007
• This weekend, I went up to our cabin just outside Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, in part to make sure the water pipes hadn't burst during ...
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• Give SCHIP More Teeth
• Mar 1, 2007
• A few years ago, when my son was 12, he had to have a root canal. I like to believe it's because he didn't brush his ...
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• Who Will Follow Daley -- Someday?
• Feb 28, 2007
• Despite a lingering federal investigation into hiring and contracting fraud at city hall, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley won reelection yesterday with 71 percent of the ...
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• Capitol Corral
• Feb 15, 2007
• If you think the office you work in is bad, check out this except from Dig, Boston's alternative weekly newspaper: From the time they take ...

• Going to the Dogs
• Feb 13, 2007
• Governing and its readers love 50-state rankings that enable us to make meaningful comparisons among governments. Bucking the tradition of providing useful information, I've assembled ...
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• Closing the Books
• Nov 20, 2006
• Last week's Public Officials of the Year awards dinner was, as always, a celebratory event. But seeing Chicago Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey (one of our ...

• Tuition Rollbacks
• Nov 7, 2006
• My son is currently in the midst of applying to colleges, so I am on heightened alert when it comes to news headlines with the ...

• Loyal To The Library
• Nov 1, 2006
• But willing to loan out her management skills.

• Riding Between the Lines
• Sep 6, 2006
• An article in the Seattle Weekly bemoans the difficulty of finding a map that shows the city's bus routes overlaid on a comprehensive street grid. ...
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