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Anne Jordan

Former Editor

Anne Jordan was a contributing editor to GOVERNING.

The branch library a half-mile from my home in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, is adequate for most of my leisure reading needs and my sons' ...
Earlier this week, my colleague Ellen Perlman wrote about a plea from the CIO of Louisiana's court system asking for private-sector donations of high-tech equipment ...
It's often interesting when the journalists here on the 13th Floor have occasion to interact as private citizens with the state and local governments we ...
Today, my friends the Kulicks should be celebrating their second daughter's first birthday. But Victoria won't be blowing out a little candle on a cake. ...
The big news out of New Orleans late yesterday was, of course, Mayor Ray Nagin's announcement that the city was laying off 3,000 employees--half of its ...
"Only a fraction of [the city's] population remained, thousands having...fled the town. Those inhabitants who had chosen to stay in the hopes of ...
The Bush administration is still working on the details of its preparedness plan to deal with an avian influenza pandemic. But one thing already is ...
Miami-Dade has joined the growing ranks of public library systems offering free wireless Internet access to their patrons. That's newsworthy on a local level, but ...
"The day of the regional jet is over," airline consultant Mike Boyd declared in a USA Today article. That news is both surprising, ...
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  ...