• Wrath of Aguirre
  • Posted By: Alan Greenblatt |   January 22, 2008
  • Michael Aguirre, the city attorney in San Diego, has earned both praise and enmity for his frequent criticism of other city officials. He was early ...
  • Categories: Politics

  • Heads Up: 1.22.08
  • Posted By: Zach Patton |   January 22, 2008
  • Bill Richardson grows a beard to "decompress." AP Drivers take on DMVs over vanity plates. USA Today Got a Heads Up for us? ...
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  • Better Yet, Elect His Mother
  • Posted By: Josh Goodman |   January 22, 2008
  • Lou Jacobson has a great roundup of state attorney general races on Stateline.org. Jacobson lists the contests in Missouri, Montana and West Virginia as ...
  • Categories: Politics

  • Last Exit Before Toll-Hike Debate
  • Posted By: |   January 21, 2008
  • Is that cup half-full or half-empty? The answer is yes, if you compare two newspapers' accounts of a new study forecasting what would happen if ...
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  • Cassandra Moments
  • Posted By: Alan Greenblatt |   January 19, 2008
  • In this year's presidential contest, we are once again seeing candidates punished for daring to tell the truth. The conventional wisdom holds that McCain lost ...
  • Categories: Politics

  • Heads Up: 1.18.08
  • Posted By: Zach Patton |   January 18, 2008
  • TX state employees can no longer hide their ages. Dallas Morning News Burying the long-dead Seattle monorail. Seattle Times It's Nuh-VAD-uh, not Nuh-VAH-duh. Las Vegas ...
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  • The Inside Game
  • Posted By: Alan Greenblatt |   January 18, 2008
  • Here's a story you've read somewhere before. John Leopold, county executive in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (that's Annapolis for you auschlanders), raised $504,325 in campaign funds ...
  • Categories: Politics

  • Taking a Read on Crime
  • Posted By: Anne Jordan |   January 18, 2008
  • Thousands of public libraries have jumped on the "One Book, One City" bandwagon since Seattle sponsored the first citywide reading program a decade ...
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  • Citizen Surveys
  • Posted By: |   January 18, 2008
  • Frequently, those of us who work on the Citizens and Performance section of Governing.com receive emails from project directors around the country telling us ...
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  • Heads Up: 1.17.08
  • Posted By: Zach Patton |   January 17, 2008
  • Rhode Island falls in love with Richard Gere. Pawtucket Times Border fence: Mother of all eminent-domain disputes. Chicago Tribune Online chat with Gov. Tim Kaine. ...
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