Features

• Obama and the Cities
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• The new president has a whole new notion of urban policy.

• Digging for Dollars
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• When it comes to stimulus money for new projects, fortune favors the prepared city.

• Road to Katrinaville
• By: Christopher Swope

• Sturdy post-disaster cottages can work as permanent housing. But they're not always welcome.

• The Second Best Job in the State
• By: Josh Goodman

• Attorneys general are on a roll these days. Some are becoming governors; some are overshadowing their governors.

• A Matter of Record(s)
• By: John Buntin

• Sure, turning patients' folders into electronic files will bring efficiencies to health care. But it's what you do with the digital data that really counts.

• Grounded
• By: Zach Patton

• Times are tough at small airports.

Departments

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• By: Zach Patton

Politics + Policy

• Tanks for the Memories
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Gasoline taxes are one last inefficient relic of 1950s car culture.

• Wild West Budgeting
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• When money is tight in Arizona, anything goes.

• Just Say No. Then Shut Up.
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Republicans get tough on tax renegades.

• After the Stimulus Ends
• By: Donald F. Kettl
• States and localities face problems a rising economy won't solve.

• Uneven Stimulus
• By: Josh Goodman

• Electric Aloha
• By: Tom Arrandale

• The new Hawaiian hot rod will run on rechargeable batteries.

• The Semi-Fast Track
• By: Alex Marshall
• The stimulus will help roads and transit. It's no panacea.

• A Gentler Jackhammer
• By: Christopher Swope

Problem Solver

• The Pain of Cutting Payroll
• By: Will Wilson

• There are many ways to reduce personnel costs -- but no easy ones.

• The Vacancy Game
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
• An odd route to budgeting flexibility comes from banking unfilled job slots.

• O Citizen, Where Art Thou?
• By: Jonathan Walters

• Getting public input into the budget-writing process sounds easier than it is.

• Powering Their Way Up
• By: Ellen Perlman
• CIOs pushed to become cabinet-level appointees -- but it doesn't always work out.

• To Build a Solid Benefit
• By: Girard Miller
• How to ensure that retiree health coverage is ample, available and affordable.

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