Features

• A Crossroads for Telecom Taxes
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• State and local revenue bases are threatened as more companies offer communication services via the untaxable Internet.

Up Front

• Loyalty Everlasting
• By: Alan Ehrenhalt

• Special Dilemma
• By: Donald F. Kettl
• The feds are promising to help with special education costs. They've been making that promise for the past 30 years.

• Easy Enforcer
• By: Rob Gurwitt
• Terry Tamminen brings a Southern California mellowness to the un- mellow job of reorganizing state government.

• Freeways (For a Fee)
• By: Otis White

The Business of Government

• The Long View
• By: Alex Marshall
• When we decide to build a new highway or train line, we think about unclogging traffic jams. That is shortsighted.

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• By: Alex Marshall

• The Clintonian Classroom
• By: Elizabeth Daigneau
• Arkansas to Open a Public Service School

• IES IN IOWA TURN TOGETTING TO KNOW YOU: CIT CITIZENS FGetting to Know You: Cities in Iowa Turn to Citizens for Performance InputsOR PERFORMANCE INPUTS
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• The eHealth Impulse
• By: Christopher Swope
• States and localities will play a key role in developing regional systems to track medical records digitally.

• Easing the Nursing Burden
• By: Ellen Perlman
• A Georgia prison frees up its infirmary staff

• Amy Resnick's Bond Bits: Foul Winds and Foresight
• By: Amy Resnick

• The Year of Living Dangerously
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

• Shop Talk
• By: Ellen Perlman
• Training beauticians to direct battered women toward help.

• Teaching in a Bubble
• By: Christopher Swope

• The Chill Factor
• By: Christopher Swope

• Where Truckers and Soccer Moms Dine
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Embracing Racing
• By: Ellen Perlman

• Biotech Sprawl?
• By: Christopher Swope

• Kansas Court Says Pay Up
• By: Christopher Swope

• Florida Keeps Contracting
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• The Boiling Point
• By: Christopher Swope
• New York Counties Under Extreme Fiscal Pressure

• A Pox on Both Houses
• By: Tom Arrandale
• When it comes to the acrimonious debate over threats to the environment, neither side has anything to be proud of right now.

• Upping the Ante
• By: William Fulton
• California's stem-cell gamble could profoundly alter the stakes for creating jobs and business opportunities in a state.

Training Opportunities

• Accelerating Economic Growth and Vitality
• This white paper describes how developing competencies in five key area can help public safety agencies more effectively do their jobs in the face of extremely important and difficult sets of issues.
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