• Should Medicaid Incentivize Healthy Behavior?
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   March 6, 2013
• Critics killed an experiment in West Virginia to incentivize Medicaid patients to be healthier. Some say it's time for states to revisit such ideas if they're serious about controlling health costs.
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• Finding the Sweet Spot of Value and Cost
• BY: Babak Armajani   |   March 6, 2013
• A concept called value-cost leveraging can cut the costs of delivering public services while providing better satisfaction.

• Big Money Starts Seeping into School Board Elections
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   March 6, 2013
• Record amounts of money are being spent to elect school boards. Advocates worry it's the start of a disturbing trend.
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• Full Coverage of Sequestration's Impact on States and Localities
• BY: News Staff   |   March 6, 2013
• In-depth coverage of how $1.2 trillion in federal spending cuts over the next decade will affect states, cities and counties.

• Which Government Services Are Citizens Most, Least Satisfied With?
• BY: Mike Maciag   |   March 6, 2013
• See how certain municipal services score in citizen satisfaction surveys.
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• Maximizing the Value of Infrastructure
• BY: Stephen Goldsmith   |   March 5, 2013
• To realize the most long-term value, governments must take a sensible approach to asset management.

• How Many Undocumented Immigrants Would Take In-State Tuition? No One Knows.
• BY: J.B. Wogan   |   March 5, 2013
• The price tag of tuition equity bills can save them or kill them. But figuring out those actual costs is anybody's guess.
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• Cloud Computing in Texas, Chief Innovation Officers and Cyberthreats
• BY: Tod Newcombe   |   March 5, 2013
• News you should know about government and technology.
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• After Virginia's Transportation Plan Passes, Maryland Gov. Proposes His Own
• BY: Ryan Holeywell   |   March 5, 2013
• Gov. O'Malley's plan borrows many ideas from Virginia's sweeping overhaul, but differs in a couple key ways.

• Advancing the Debate: Why Legalize Sports Betting?
• BY: J.B. Wogan   |   March 4, 2013
• New Jersey passed a law to legalize sports betting at casinos and race tracks, which is already allowed in four states. But the feds and major sports leagues have been working to block it.
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• Where Have All the Governors Gone?
• BY: Louis Jacobson   |   March 4, 2013
• Why don't more governors seek federal office?
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• Report Calls for Bigger State Role in Rail
• BY: Ryan Holeywell   |   March 1, 2013
• As Congress mulls future of Amtrak, a new Brookings study says state support of the rail system has contributed to its record ridership.
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• Transportation Committee Chairs Say They're Open to Ideas
• BY: Ryan Holeywell   |   February 28, 2013
• The highway bill was passed last year, but lawmakers are already discussing its successor.

• Sequestration Won't Hit Schools Immediately
• BY: Ryan Holeywell   |   February 28, 2013
• While the administration warns of sequestration's impact on education, most programs won't be affected this academic school year.

• Sequestration's Impact on Public Health
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   February 28, 2013
• If the automatic budget cuts are allowed to take full effect, public health advocates warn the impact on the safety net could be devastating.
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