Features

• Healthy Handouts
• By: Josh Goodman
• Borrowing a page from private health insurers, state Medicaid programs are testing the wellness waters.

• Tougher than Wall Street
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Jon Corzine worked miracles at Goldman Sachs. Doing it in Trenton is a different story.

• The Big Benefit Base
• By: Josh Goodman
• A recent survey finds that state and local employees have certain compensatory advantages.

• Local Warming
• By: Christopher Swope

• It's too late to stop climate change. What we can do is plan for it.

• Digital-Age Digs
• By: Ellen Perlman

• As public interest in cultural heritage grows, archaeologists are using both traditional and high-tech tools to discover the past.

• In the Green
• By: Zach Patton

• When it comes to housing, affordable and sustainable can go together.

Up Front

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• By: Zach Patton

• Evening Star
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Steve Beshear once hoped to be Kentucky's wonder-boy governor. Now, he's coming in as an elder statesman.

• Zoned Out
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• D.C.'s cab system will soon cease to be an irrational anomaly. Not everyone approves of that change.

• The Wrong Message
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Governments shouldn't consider it inevitable that they will get bad press.

• Defined Confusion
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Cutting pensions saves states money, right? Maybe eventually.

• Cut a Tax, or Kill it?
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Los Angeles faces a tricky revenue decision.

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• By: Alan Greenblatt

• No Political Traction
• By: Donald F. Kettl
• Federalism isn't irrelevant to the 2008 presidential campaign. It's just that no candidate is framing ways for the feds to deal with the big issues.

• The Streetcar Surge
• By: Alex Marshall
• Streetcars, popular again in a growing number of cities, have the potential to be a vital part of urban transportation systems.

The Business of Government

• Primary Interest
• By: Penelope Lemov

• Crazy Cool in L.A
• By: Ellen Perlman
• A fire department taps into microblogging to keep itself on top of situations.

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• By: Ellen Perlman

• Fee Fight: Public Employees Have Hidden Costs in Their Investment Plans.
• By: Girard Miller

• Buyouts in the Balance
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• The elusive savings of retirement incentives

• The Doctor Is Out: Minnesota Cracks Down on Gift Giving
• By: Elizabeth Daigneau

• Boarding Calls
• By: Zach Patton
• Airports are catering to busy travelers and their animals with kennels fit for Fideaux.

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• By: Zach Patton

• Tilting Tills: A So-So Season for Revenue
• By: Penelope Lemov

• Power Puffs
• By: Tom Arrandale

• Wind-swept communities will be in for fights as large-scale wind power development spreads to new regions.

• The New Industrial Age
• By: William Fulton
• Cities on the cutting edge of the new economy are taking steps to retain their stock of industrial land.

• Colorado Consolidates
• By: Ellen Perlman
• The governor moves to streamline the state's IT systems.

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