Potomac Chronicle


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Donald F. Kettl
E-mail: kettl@umd.edu
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Peter Harkness
E-mail: pharkness@governing.com


  • Road Blocks
  • In hard times, good sense should prevail. But that's not what's happening with the re-crafting of transportation policy.

  • Innovation Freeze
  • We've come to depend on states as the source of new policy ideas. They aren't producing many right now.

  • Block That Grant
  • The White House can't wait to sell off federal programs. The states might want to look before buying.

  • Madates Forever
  • Congress promised to stop imposing mandates on states and localities without paying for them. But the temptation is irresistible.


  • Unreliable Source
  • Thirty years ago, we wanted to control 'new source' air pollution in the worst way. That's about what we did.


  • Bush and The 50 Beggars
  • States are beseeching the White House for some dollars to tide them over while they get back on their feet. The White House isn't going for it.


  • Sacramento Rules
  • While Congress and the EPA fight political wars, states are making the crucial environmental decisions.


  • Connecting the Dots
  • The feds can create a new security agency. But they can't make us secure. That has to happen at the grassroots.



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