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Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
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Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T
@mayorfunk
Gloria and Sue Norris, her roommate from Salem College, at Woodland Creek in New York's Catskills. http://t.co/N1Ou0N4f0T

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William H. "Bill" Leighty is a Governing Institute senior fellow. A Governing Public Official of the Year in 2007, he served as chief of staff to Virginia Govs. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and for seven ...

Bob Graves

Bob Graves. M.S., associate director of the Governing Institute, is the designated content curator for the FutureStructure initiative and also a co-founder of e.Republic, the parent organization of Go ...

John E. Nixon

John E. Nixon is a Governing Institute senior fellow. A Governing Public Official of the Year in 2012, he served as director of Michigan’s Department of Technology, Management and Budget from 2011 to ...

Mark Funkhouser

Mark Funkhouser, a former Kansas City mayor and auditor, is the publisher of Governing and director of the Governing Institute.

Ron Littlefield

Ron Littlefield, a former mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn., is a senior fellow with the Governing Institute and its lead analyst on the City Accelerator initiative. A city planner by career, he also consul ...

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