Jonathan Walters 
Jonathan Walters -- Senior Editor. Jonathan has covered state and local government for more than 30 years, including for publications ranging from The Washington Post to USA Today. His beats include public sector management and administration, with an emphasis on results-based government. He also covers human services-related topics, and does a monthly e-newsletter on human services. He is author of three books, two on performance measurement in the public sector and one on public sector press relations. He started with GOVERNING in 1989 as a staff correspondent, and now serves as the magazine's executive editor. Walters lives in Columbia County, New York, where he serves as chairman of his local planning board. He is also a Class A interior attack qualified firefighter, and serves as president of his local volunteer fire company. Email jowaz22@gmail.com.
Recent Articles
- Fear of Fingerprinting
- There's a form of gun regulation that could save thousands of lives a year. If we weren't so paranoid, we'd adopt it.
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- Faith and Innovation
- The mixture of religion and social service worries a lot of people. But is it really a problem?
- Leaving It to the Court
- More and more issues of federalism are ending up in the Supreme Court. There's a reason for that.
- Capital Gains
- The District of Columbia, once the nation's poster child for managerial incompetence, is staging a comeback.
- Railroad Realism
- It will take more than platitudes to save Amtrak. But good ideas are out there.
- A Lesson in Brown
- The feds have learned what to do with polluted industrial sites. States and cities taught them.
- Guide to Transportation Spending: Signs of the TEA Generation
- ISTEA and TEA-21 were designed to overhaul state highway habits and refocus spending. Is that what's happening?
- The Snoozing Watchdogs
- States have done better on a whole lot of fronts in recent years. Corporate regulation isn't one of them.
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- The Flip Side of Welfare Reform
- We've gotten people off the rolls. But we aren't paying most of them enough to live on.
- Managing Performance: Leadership's Challenge
- When it comes to governing in the United States, "there is more that unites us than divides us," declared Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, as he welcomed more than 350 high-level local and state officials to Governing's annual management conference, held in Baltimore October 10-12.
- Time to Cooperate
- There's nothing we need more right now than teamwork among state, local and federal government. It doesn't come naturally.
- Safety is Still a Local Issue
- This is a time for every level of government to remember the things it does best.
- John Engler: Speed Ahead
- Remaking a state through ideology and determination
- Urban Role Model
- Local governments in many places run more efficiently than they used to. But there's one in New Zealand that's in a class by itself.
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