Features

• Tribes and Tribulations
• By: Ellen Perlman
• Localities are struggling to deal with the issues that arise from being adjacent to Indian lands.

• Clear Connection
• By: Jonathan Walters
• A high-tech partnership is driving down crime in Chicago.

• Damage Control
• By: Josh Goodman
• Coastal states are testing ways to keep citizens' property insured against hurricane winds and rain.

• Powering Down
• By: Christopher Swope

• Can utilities make money on energy efficiency?

• Golden-Rule Charlie
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Lots of governors talk a bipartisan game on election night. A few of them seem to mean it.

• Bratton's Brigade
• By: Rob Gurwitt

• A small cohort of police chiefs who came of age under William Bratton's policing innovations are spreading his gospel.

• Data on the Beat
• By: Jonathan Walters

• A high-tech partnership is driving down crime in Chicago.

Up Front

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• By: Jonathan Walters

• Somebody Different
• By: Zach Patton
• Michelle Rhee doesn't have the resume of a school superintendent. That's why she got the job.

• Demographic Storm
• By: Mark Stencel
• The natural disasters of 2005 may spawn political hurricanes in 2010.

• Capability Gap
• By: Mark Stencel
• Machines are part of the digital divide problem. Lack of knowledge is a bigger part.

• Bench Brawl
• By: Mark Stencel
• In Nevada, it's sometimes hard to tell the judge from the accused.

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• By: Mark Stencel

• 311 Potholes
• By: Ellen Perlman
• Consolidating call centers is proving to be a boon to cities, but the roll-outs are rough.

• Homeland Psychiatry
• By: Donald F. Kettl
• War veterans are coming home in worse mental shape than anybody expected.

• Payroll Peeking
• By: Mark Stencel
• Government salaries have always been public record. But not the way they are now.

The Business of Government

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• By: Mark Stencel

• Street Wise
• By: Alex Marshall
• A study compared how well old-city street layouts handled traffic versus modern approaches. The results set off a firestorm.

• 311 Potholes
• By: Ellen Perlman
• Consolidating call centers is proving to be a boon to cities, but the roll-outs are rough.

• Clean-Up Hitters: High-Tech Cities Vie For New Tech
• By: Elizabeth Daigneau

• Pension Divestment Politics
• By: Girard Miller
• Needed: model social investment legislation

• Budget Band-Aid
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Co-sharing the health cost pain

• Got Bars?
• By: Josh Goodman
• States are cracking down on the proliferation of contraband cell phones in prisons.

• Budget Builders: Collecting and Spending Stay Steady
• By: Josh Goodman

• Market Sighs In Relief
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• A Texas bond disclosure bank settles a threat to its existence.

• Wildfire Fight
• By: Tom Arrandale

• As millions of Americans move where wildlands meet urban areas, the danger to them, firefighters and the land grows.

• The Rich Get Richer
• By: William Fulton
• For states and cities, the trick is to capture the wealth when and where it's created and put it to long-term use locally.

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