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NASCIO's Midyear Conference: The Consolidating Game
Posted By: Zach Patton | April 29, 2010
Consolidation. That was the watchword as the nation's top public-sector technologists gathered in Baltimore this week for the midyear conference of the National Association ...
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Touring the Tenderloin
Posted By: David Kidd | April 27, 2010
I was in San Francisco in March, taking pictures for John Buntin's May story about that city's efforts to clean up its roughest neighborhood, the ...
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Downtown L.A.: The Future of San Francisco's Tenderloin?
Posted By: John Buntin | April 20, 2010
I recently "put to bed" (as we say in the magazine biz) a story about San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon's efforts ...
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A Tax from Governing's Past
Posted By: Josh Goodman | April 13, 2010
In my April feature story, I said that the question of why sales taxes generally apply to goods but not services is "one of ...
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Cigarette Bans: Lost Tax Revenue?
Posted By: Andy Kim | April 9, 2010
More and more states across the country are adopting tobacco bans in their prisons. In fact, half of the states in the U.S. have ...
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Millennials, Internships and Government
Posted By: Tina Trenkner | April 6, 2010
Last week, Governing's Public Workforce newsletter writer, Heather Kerrigan, and I were throwing around some potential story ideas to cover this summer. One topic ...
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Urban Planning: Urgent Necessity or Dangerous Distraction?
Posted By: John Buntin | April 2, 2010
Today's Guardian has a story that describes the urban mega-city as "the greatest design challenge" of our time. Given the numbers that ...
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