Features

• Two Faces of Foreclosure
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Mortgage meltdown is a problem everywhere. In some places, it's a disaster.

• The Price of Prevention
• By: Josh Goodman

• To cut their health care bills, states are rushing into programs aimed at keeping people physically well. But is there a fiscal payoff?

• Mr. Sustainability
• By: Ellen Perlman

• A job title is born as cities get serious about global warming.

• Fresh Fight
• By: Zach Patton

• Governments want local food from family farmers on the menu. It's not easy to find.

• Muni Machinations
• By: Penelope Lemov

• The feds would like more control over the state and local bond market. The bond issuers don't want them to have it.

Up Front

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• By: Penelope Lemov

• NCLB on the Ropes
• By: Donald F. Kettl
• The fine print in the federal education law may be its undoing.

The Business of Government

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• By: Donald F. Kettl

• To Catch a Thief
• By: Ellen Perlman
• High-level data analysis is helping police spot crimes -- sometimes before they happen.

• King of the Road
• By: Alex Marshall
• What's up with groups that argue for less government but see publicly built highways as an expression of the free market?

• Benchmarking Livability
• By: Jonathan Walters

• Measuring quality of life and government performance at the same time can be tricky. But it's possible.

• The Desert Driver
• By: William Fulton
• Commuters are infringing on resort communities, making it hard to keep cheap housing around for local workers.

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