Anne Jordan

Recent Articles

• Crate Crackdown
• Aug 30, 2006
• Years ago--okay, decades--when I went off to college, I took along several plastic milk crates. They had served me well as storage units in my ...
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• Monitoring Motorists
• Aug 24, 2006
• Yesterday, after a brief search for a cheap used car, I shifted gears and bought a cheap, new car. It's a little red hatchback with ...
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• Serious Comics
• Aug 23, 2006
• In the current issue of Governing, my colleague Jonathan Walters relates how some governments are trying to package performance reports (which, he notes, typically "...
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• Yellow-Brick Ode
• Aug 16, 2006
• Six weeks ago, my husband and I went to settlement on a weekend home in Berkeley Springs, an historic town in the eastern panhandle of ...
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• Fraternal Wins
• Jun 29, 2006
• Two years ago, my colleague Rob Gurwitt wrote a feature about Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin's remarkable ability to forge alliances among disparate interests and factions, ...

• Copping Copper
• Jun 5, 2006
• Add copper to the list of metals that are increasingly being stolen from the public domain, as high demand worldwide has tripled the price that ...
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• Preeminent Domain
• Jun 5, 2006
• If your e-mail address fits the standard government model -- johndoe@agency.state.us or janedoe@anycity.gov -- you are definitely not an economic ...

• Book Boulevard
• Apr 23, 2006
• I recently spent a couple of beautiful spring days in Chicago with my family. Like typical tourists, we enjoyed an afternoon walking around Millennium Park ...

• Northern Exposure
• Apr 20, 2006
• This morning, I saw a map showing the spread of the mumps in Iowa (815 people and counting) and beyond. So far, 350 additional cases have been ...

• Write Your Own Caption: Paradox in the Park
• Apr 19, 2006
• Write a caption for this Pollyannish sign I photographed last week at Sibley State Park in Minnesota.             &...
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• The Lifestyle Library
• Apr 3, 2006
• There's always something interesting in the montly newsletter I receive from the Urban Libraries Council. An article in the April edition highlights some of the ...

• Mega Metropolis
• Mar 31, 2006
• When Metropolis , the glossy monthly on architecture and design, shows up at our house, the first thing my teenage son (who wants to be an ...
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• Kirbyyyyyy Puckett Field?
• Mar 8, 2006
• In "Skybox Skeptics" [Governing, March], my colleague Josh Goodman writes about the growing difficulty baseball teams are having leveraging public money for new ...

• One-upping Oprah
• Mar 6, 2006
• "One Book, One City" initiatives, whereby local residents all read and discuss the same book during a set period of time, have spread ...

• Rubber Stamp
• Feb 16, 2006
• When I saw the newspaper headline "To Market a City Condom, Make It Catchy but Tasteful", I knew immediately that the city was ...