http://www.governing.com/authors/rss/rss/?a=87483792 Will Wilson is a former GOVERNING correspondent. http://www.governing.com/topics/mgmt/Second-Spin.html When Steve Gendler retired 16 years ago from a career as an Arizona law enforcement officer, he figured he'd spend a lot of his time doing... http://www.governing.com/topics/mgmt/The-Pain-of-Cutting.html Whacked by budget deficits and with no end to sluggish economies in sight, states, cities and counties have been forced to make the hardest cuts... http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/Venture-Governmentalist.html Aneesh Chopra has entered the nail-biting phase of the venture capital investing cycle. He has scoured his market carefully for new uses of technology. And... http://www.governing.com/topics/mgmt/Hold-That-Hire.html "It's not an easy job being a jailer," says Captain Hunter Petray, who works in the sheriff's office in Benton County, Arkansas. Few would dispute... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/Not-a-Pretty-Picture.html From Google, state-by-state and county-by-county graphs of unemployment figures for easy comparison. Soon, weand#39;ll be able to do this with more data. Hat tip: ... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/Finally-Data-We-Can.html Hereand#39;s a map, courtesy of SloshSpot, of brewery density per capita in these United States: As a native Montanan, Iand#39;m not surprised weand#39;... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/Florida-Workforce-and-the.html The Florida Legislature is considering cutting every state workerand#39;s salary by 5%. Letand#39;s put that in some context. In the 2008 Grading the States, hereand#39;... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/If-Youre-A-Happy.html Utah is the happiest state;and#0160; West Virginia the least. Thatand#39;s according to a Gallup self-reporting happiness survey. Broadly speaking, there seems to be a and... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/That-Pesky-17th-Amendment.html Some state budget stabilization funds wound up on the stimulus cutting room floor yesterday. Matthew Yglesias wonders why seemingly strong political constituencies like state-level politicians ... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/Watch-That-Stimulus.html Stimulus Watch looks like a website that probably should have been around long before the stimulus package: a thumbnail glance at all of the andquot;... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/Is-Government-Technology-Intentionally.html Apropos of the Obama staffand#39;s rude tech awakening in the White House, Megan McArdle asks, andquot;Why is government IT so awful?andquot; And ... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/Start-Up-Government.html Todayand#39;s Washington Post has a nice story on DC chief technology officer Vivek Kundra. The opening of the article especially underscores how Kundra not ... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/The-Yankees-and-the.html When the stories began leaking out about New York City Mayor Michael Bloombergand#39;s office pressuring the Yankees for a luxury suite in the new ... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/The-Answer-is-No.html Washington state is looking at about a $5 billion budget shortfall over the next couple years, given current projections. That doesnand#39;t necessarily mean legislators in ... http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/Financial-Crisiss-Non-Economic-Impact.html States were already facing big revenue hits before Wall Street started to melt down. The fall of AIG might portend regulatory effects on states as ...