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
- Stat Governor
- Martin O'Malley, the governor of Maryland, thought his question was reasonably straightforward. He was meeting with state parole and probation managers, and O'Malley wanted to...
- Water Wars and Peace
- The Great Lakes states and provinces sign on to protect their greatest resource -- and need only a rubber stamp from the feds.
- Turning the Lottery Loose
- With Virginia struggling to pay for such pressing priorities as transportation and education and the legislature exhibiting its traditional lack of appetite for raising taxes,...
- Real ID and Reality
- States can fume about the federal identification law -- or they can find ways to cope with it.
- Focusing on Accountability
- By the time Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell left office in 2000 -- riding a bribery and tax-evasion scandal out the door and into federal prison --...
- Transportation Tug-of-War
- The nation's roads and bridges urgently need attention. The question is who can best provide it.
- A Tower of Tiers
- Starting next July, public employees hired in the state of Kansas will be second-class citizens, in a way. They will have to pay more into...
- Benchmarking Livability
- When Oregon launched its statewide performance measurement initiative called "Oregon Benchmarks" back in 1989, the whole effort took a considerable amount of explaining. At the time,...
- Energy Land Grab
- The feds want to run utility corridors right through state and local turf -- without asking permission.
- Is Welfare Working?
- Twelve years ago, Bill Clinton and the U.S. Congress ended "welfare as we know it." Gone was the idea of an open-ended entitlement for...
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- Subprime Performance
- It's not that someone was asleep at the switch on mortgage lending. It's that everyone was.
- Negotiator-In-Chief
- To say that Christine Gregoire's start as governor of Washington was inauspicious would be an understatement. After an apparent 130-vote win in November 2004, the election was marred by multiple recounts and a lawsuit. When the Democratic majority in the legislature moved to certify her election, Republicans mustered on the front lawn of the statehouse chanting, "Revote! Revote!"
- Delayed Conversation
- The feds don't spend much time hashing out mutual problems with states and localities. It's time they started.
- Visual Effects
- Using graphics to present performance data can help make the case for policy or budget changes.
- Getting the Public's Attention
- When it comes to public-sector performance measures, collecting and verifying data are hard enough. Then comes the challenge of trying to actually get the attention...
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