Rob Gurwitt

Recent Articles

• Joining Forces
• Dec 31, 2008
• One of the more interesting experiments in maintaining newspapers' traditional capacity to cover state government was announced in November by the St. Petersburg Times and...

• Postcards from the Edge
• Dec 31, 2008
• Then and Now As the largest newspaper in Connecticut and the paper of record for the state's capital city, the Hartford Courant has long held...
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• Welcome Mat
• Nov 30, 2008
• On a sunny fall afternoon, Rafael Ramos pulls up in front of a modest house in a working-class neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. He hops...

• Breakdown
• Sep 30, 2008
• When a public system issues a cry for help, it often does so in horrific ways. Sure, there are stacks of polite studies and the...

• A Taste of the Country
• Sep 5, 2008
• It is more than likely that you've never heard of Calvin Beale, a rural demographer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture who died of colon cancer on Monday, at the age of 85. He was a quiet, courtly bureaucrat in a city where those qualities tend to go unremarked.

• Atlanta and the Urban Future
• Jun 30, 2008
• There is going to be a hard-fought campaign for mayor of Atlanta next year, and to understand it better, you might pay a visit to...

• Eds, Meds and Urban Revival
• Apr 30, 2008
• Look out from an upper-floor window of the old Sears building on the edge of downtown Birmingham, Alabama, and you can begin to appreciate the...

• Deals and Ideals
• Nov 1, 2007
• Forest City Enterprises makes communities pay big money for many projects it builds. But it builds some good ones.

• Moving Outside
• Nov 1, 2007
• John Kitzhaber has been to the top in politics. He thinks he may be able to achieve more working from the bottom up.

• Brinkshman
• Sep 1, 2007
• As Chicago's transit chief, Ron Huberman is playing some dangerous games. He may not have much choice

• Bratton's Brigade
• Jul 31, 2007
• One May night, two police officers bicycle-patrolling their beat in a violence-prone neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, spotted a car parked near a recreation center....

• Can Dallas Govern Itself?
• Jul 1, 2007
• Over the past decade, political chaos and bureaucratic mismanagement turned Big D into a Big Mess. It's struggling to recover.

• Power Reclaimed
• Jul 1, 2007
• California's term-limit law was turning Assembly speakers into ciphers--until Fabian Nunez came along.

• Cookie-Jar Clampdown
• Apr 1, 2007
• Tougher lobby laws are being discussed all over the country. A few states have enacted them. Whether they will work remains to be seen.

• Drug Doubter
• Apr 1, 2007
• Vermont prosecutor Robert Sand says what he thinks about marijuana. He's making people uncomfortable.