Features

• Tap Dance
• By: Tom Arrandale
• Tricky balancing can be required to remove lead from drinking water while also meeting other water-quality mandates.

• Brave New Telecom World
• By: Christopher Swope
• Internet telephone communication is an exciting new prospect. Unless it's your job to regulate it.

• Pride of Place
• By: Rob Gurwitt
• Fred Kent has spent three decades developing a common-sense approach to streets, buildings and human sociability.

• A Suprising Uprising
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• Big cities have revived and upgraded recycling programs.

• Contract Lens
• By: Zach Patton
• As states continue to outsource corrections services, they are struggling to find the right level of private-prison scrutiny.

• Courting Cuba
• By: Ellen Perlman
• States have been wooing trade with Havana, but politics may put an end to it.

Up Front

• Looking For a Real Crisis: Try Medicaid
• By: Donald F. Kettl
• Social Security may be running out of money, but at least it's a single coherent program. Medicaid is a monster with countless heads.

• Special Assignment
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Chicago's procurement process has been broken for years. Mary A. Dempsey has been given a mandate to repair it.

• Rhode Island and Reform: Still an Oxymoron?
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Legislators balk at giving up power.

• The Urge to Merge: Still Waiting For a Surge
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Consolidating local governments is as difficult a political task as it ever was.

• Who Won? Sometime's There's No Real Answer
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• In the closest elections, there are issues impossible to resolve.

• Term Limits Aren't Working
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Does that bother anybody? Not the voters, at least so far.

• Creatures of the State
• By: Otis White

• Clockwork Blues
• By: Alan Ehrenhalt
• It can be a nuisance changing every clock in your house twice a year. But Daylight Savings Time is not a subject of public controversy-- except in Indiana.

The Business of Government

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• By: Alan Ehrenhalt

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• By: Alan Ehrenhalt

• Pushing the Limit: Minn. Localities Chafe at Pay Constraints
• By: Ellen Perlman

• Helping the Homeless
• By: Zach Patton
• San Diego tackles a drinking problem.

• Coming Clean: States Ask Hospitals to Report Infection Rates
• By: Christopher Swope

• Boarding the Rx Express
• By: Elizabeth Daigneau
• States are honing their approaches to lowering drug costs.

• Bond Bits: The Big Board
• By: Amy Resnick

• States Probe a Kickback Scam
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Title insurance is focus of investigation

• Diesel in Distress
• By: Tom Arrandale
• The workhorses of our economic life are churning out an exhaust that sickens and kills people.

• Pushback Time
• By: William Fulton
• Economic development officials may be going too far and being too secretive in their deal making.

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• By: William Fulton

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