Josh Goodman

Recent Articles

• Illinois: Peculiar Lieutenant Governor Rules Compound Democrats' Problems
• Feb 5, 2010
• To state the obvious, Democrats in Illinois didn't do themselves any favors in the ticket they picked on Tuesday. Gov. Pat Quinn, who was ...
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• Kentucky House: A Democrat's Surprise Win
• Feb 4, 2010
• You'd think that after the Scott Brown experience, I (and everyone else) would learn not to take election results for granted. But, I'm ...
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• AL-Governor: Kay Ivey's Curious Cash-on-Hand
• Feb 4, 2010
• Alabama State Treasurer Kay Ivey is considered a long shot for the Alabama Republican gubernatorial nomination, in large part because of financial troubles with the ...

• Memphis Reporter Wins GOVERNING/Stateline.org Award
• Feb 3, 2010
• Marc Perrusquia, a reporter with the Memphis Commercial Appeal, is the recipient of the seventh annual Hal Hovey Award, presented by GOVERNING and Stateline.org....
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• Illinois Turnout: Good News for Republicans?
• Feb 3, 2010
• I was at a Governing conference today, so I didn't get to comment on the results from Illinois. I'll have more to say ...

• Crist v. Rubio: Nine Months Later
• Feb 2, 2010
• If you'll forgive a little bit of self-indulgence, I got a kick out of rereading a post I wrote last April about the campaign ...

• Final Thoughts on Illinois
• Feb 2, 2010
• I have just a few final things to say about today's Illinois primaries. -First of all, I'm more than a little ashamed that ...

• Southeastern Water Wars
• Feb 1, 2010
• On June 10, 2009, state officials in Georgia declared that the severe three-year drought that parched metro Atlanta and much of the Southeast was finally over. But...
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• A Candidate Takes on Taxes
• Feb 1, 2010
• When Lincoln Chafee kicked off his campaign for governor of Rhode Island in January, he did something unconventional: He actually made news. Rather than stick...

• Health Reform, Utah Style
• Feb 1, 2010
• Conservative Utah doesn't usually have a lot in common with liberal Massachusetts. But both states have embraced health exchanges - one of the big ideas...
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• Reaching for a Tuition Tax?
• Feb 1, 2010
• In cities from Boston to Baltimore to Birmingham, Ala., universities and hospitals have played key roles in revitalizing urban neighborhoods. But expansions of eds and...

• Merging Historically Black Universities
• Feb 1, 2010
• Now that American higher education has been racially integrated for decades, what's the role of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs)? That's the question that...
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• Governors Races: Where Will Democrats Support Gay Marriage?
• Feb 1, 2010
• Pat Quinn and Dan Hynes have been arguing about so many different things that it would be easy to miss one of the areas of ...
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• Sanity on Sexting?
• Jan 28, 2010
• Here's a bill that caught my attention. A Pennsylvania state legislature has proposed a law to make sending sexually explicit text messages a misdemeanor, ...
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• Minnesota Senate: A Republican Hold
• Jan 27, 2010
• In a special election in Minnesota's 26th Senate District yesterday, a Republican blowout would have suggested that the G.O.P. is in line ...