Anne Jordan

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• First-Suburb Summit
• Feb 16, 2006
• Yesterday, I attended a symposium at the Brookings Institution that accompanied the release of a ground-breaking report on America's "first suburbs." Researchers with ...

• Books and Hammers
• Feb 7, 2006
• My father was a librarian, so our summer vacations inevitably revolved around the city in which the American Library Association was holding its annual meeting: ...

• Target Practice
• Jan 30, 2006
• Growing up in Minnesota, I was shopping at Target stores long before the rest of the country had heard of the discount retailer. It's even ...

• Poignant Portraits
• Jan 25, 2006
• Wandering around Denver International Airport during a 2 1/2 hour layover, I came across an interesting exhibit in the corridors of Concourse A: a photo gallery of ...
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• Not Last (At Last)
• Jan 12, 2006
• The District of Columbia is a political jurisdiction like no other. Its unique status and demographics often skew the statistics in 50-state comparisons. So when ...

• Major Mistake About Miners
• Jan 4, 2006
• Football players are well known for starting to celebrate a touchdown before they actually cross the goal line. Occasionally, they get tripped up, lose the ...

• California Floodin'
• Jan 3, 2006
• On hearing that 750 homes and businesses in Napa, California, were flooded by last weekend's storms, I immediately thought of the story Governing ran in the ...
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• Don't Try This At Home
• Dec 23, 2005
• My Christmas tree has been up for a couple of weeks and is starting to shed some of its needles. But that's nothing compared with ...

• Code Red for ER One
• Dec 14, 2005
• Just read a Washington Post editorial about a casualty in the HHS appropriations bill: ER One. In Congress's efforts to rid the bill of earmarks, ...

• Employment Enigma
• Dec 2, 2005
• fedgazette, the bimonthly newspaper of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, may not be part of your regular reading routine, but I can recommend it ...

• Will EPA Skip a Year on Data?
• Nov 30, 2005
• A page in Governing's annual State & Local Sourcebook is always devoted to 50-state data on toxic chemical releases. The numbers come from the U....

• Image Problem
• Nov 30, 2005
• Among the items in the gift catalogs I was browsing through last evening are "talking president" dolls--12" action figures of George W. ...

• Fortress Mentality
• Nov 28, 2005
• This week, the Mississippi Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal plans to begin distributing free copies of "A Pattern Book for Gulf Coast ...

• Big Wins for Black Execs
• Nov 9, 2005
• African-Americans fared well on Election Day in races for high-level local offices. Four cities elected their first black mayor: Buffalo, N.Y. - Democrat  ...
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• Jettisoning Regional Jets
• Nov 3, 2005
• "The day of the regional jet is over," airline consultant Mike Boyd declared in a USA Today article. That news is both surprising, ...
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