John Buntin

Recent Articles

• Turnaround secrets
• May 20, 2009
• In 2004, former Wayne County, Michigan, prosecutor Mike Duggan became the chief executive of the troubled Detroit Medical Center. On day one, he was told the ...

• Long Lens of the Law
• Apr 30, 2009
• It's Friday night, a few minutes past 9 o'clock, and people are pouring into the 13,500-seat Baltimore Arena. They're here to see one of the biggest...
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• A Baltimore Camera In Action
• Apr 30, 2009
• The Balitmore Police Department provided GOVERNING with footage from one of the city's cameras, located in a western section of downtown Baltimore. Police Commissioner Frederick...

• A Matter of Record(s)
• Mar 31, 2009
• Ron Stollings believes in electronic health records, as both a family physician and a state legislator. Two years ago, he and the three doctors he...
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• Immigrants, Apples and Successful Cities
• Mar 23, 2009
• Friday night I was in Baltimore for the Lil' Wayne concert. I didn't actually go to the concert; I watched it with the Baltimore ...
• 3 Comments

• Rethinking foot traffic
• Mar 10, 2009
• Urban planners tend to applaud when pedestrians replace cars (something NYC is now considering for Times Square.) But officials in Boston are now considering the ...

• View from the Counties: Hard Times Through 2010, Real Help from D.C.
• Mar 6, 2009
• The National Association of Counties (NACo) begins its annual legislative conference tomorrow in Washington, DC. Earlier this afternoon, NACo President Don Stapley, a county supervisor ...

• Health Care Comes Home
• Feb 28, 2009
• Dr. Jugta Kahai had a problem. One of her patients, a 9-month-old boy with asthma, kept showing up in the emergency room. He was struggling...

• What Is a Medical Home?
• Feb 28, 2009
• North Carolina has built a coordinated medical system for the poor that includes old-style house calls. And it's making a big difference. The patient-centered medical...

• Bad Times -- and Weapons
• Feb 23, 2009
• What is it about bad times and weapons? The Los Angeles Times is reporting that courthouse screeners in L.A. County seized banned weapons last ...

• Knowing What Works
• Feb 9, 2009
• It's hard to know what's more heartening -- the fact that "broken windows" policing seems to be working in Lowell, M....
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• Minding the Detailers
• Feb 1, 2009
• It's a gray Friday morning in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Kristin Nocco is in the parking lot of Primary Care Associates, putting on her game face. She's...

• Explaining the Current Economic Mess
• Jan 14, 2009
• Confused by credit default swaps? Baffled by the fact that most municipalities can't issue debt at affordable rates? Fuzzy about Gödel's critique ...

• City Life = Brain Damage?
• Jan 6, 2009
• The evidence is surprisingly strong, some neuroscientists say. Attention and self-control are particularly harmed by urban life. The best antidote seems to be a big ...
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• Markets, not Mandates
• Nov 30, 2008
• For years, efforts to expand health insurance seemed like an exclusively "blue state" activity. Oregon, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine enacted sweeping proposals designed to expand...