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Online Metrics for Government Sites
Posted By: Tina Trenkner | February 23, 2010
Governments have performance data to judge the efficiency of the programs they put in place. Naturally, online sites have metrics too. How soon will that ...
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Grim News, But Still a Few Laughs, at Governors' Session in DC
Posted By: Elizabeth Daigneau | February 22, 2010
The annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association this past weekend in D.C. began -- as all state and local meetings must nowadays ...
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Is Health Reform Happening After All?
Posted By: John Buntin | February 18, 2010
A big day in the health reform world. First, Kaiser Health News reports that insurers across the nation are raising insurance premiums dramatically -- and ...
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Fixing Utah's Health Exchange
Posted By: John Buntin | February 18, 2010
In the February issue of Governing, my colleague Josh Goodman wrote about Utah's health exchange -- a free-market alternative to the Massachusetts Commonwealth Connector. ...
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A British Take on 'The Next Age of Government'
Posted By: Tina Trenkner | February 16, 2010
Last month, when I spoke to e-communications firm Delib founder Chris Quigley (who filmed a short documentary about President Obama's Open Government memo one ...
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Health Reform Moves to the States: The Case of Minnesota
Posted By: John Buntin | February 16, 2010
The apparent collapse of health reform in Washington has shifted attention back to the question of what (if anything) states can do to control prices, ...
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Staff Snapshots from D.C.'s 'Snoverkill'
Posted By: Josh Goodman | February 9, 2010
Editor's note: Reading this month's photo essay on Syracuse's snow plows stings just a little for Governing's D.C. staffers, who ...
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News of Public-Private Partnerships' Death May be Exaggerated
Posted By: Zach Patton | February 3, 2010
Yesterday I mentioned the idea -- voiced by Dan Borut at the National League of Cities, but supported by several others -- that the era ...
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Mark Zandi: State Fiscal Outlook is "Dark"
Posted By: Zach Patton | February 3, 2010
Mark your calendars, everybody: Feb. 11, 2011. That's the day Moody's.com economist Mark Zandi says the economy will shift from financial recovery to a &...
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States Face Huge Deficits, But Also Opportunities to Transform
Posted By: Zach Patton | February 3, 2010
**From GOVERNING's Outlook in the States and Localities 2010** The fiscal outlook for cities and counties may be bleak, but it's nothing compared to ...
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