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Desert Storm
BY John Buntin
From the front yard of her house in Redlands, California, Sherli Leonard looks out over the foothills of nearby mountains to San Timoteo Canyon.
In...
Features
Get Smart
Mention smart-grid technology to Frederick Butler, a utility regulator in New Jersey, and he'll immediately remind you of two recent crises. The first is the...
BY Tom Arrandale
Finance
Laura Chick Is Watching
It took Laura Chick barely a month in Sacramento to start making waves. As California's new inspector general charged with overseeing how the state spends...
BY Rob Gurwitt
Finance
Shortfall Shock
Given a climate of national recession, Maine's budget process went pretty smoothly in 2009. Despite some scary revenue shortfalls, the legislature passed a $5.8 billion budget bill...
BY Alan Greenblatt
Finance
The Costliest Ride
In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a city of just over 150,000 people, almost half of the annual public transit budget doesn't go for buses, or trolleys,...
BY Josh Goodman
Departments
Politics + Policy
Coal-Fired Compromise
No one expected Mark Parkinson to pursue an aggressive agenda as governor of Kansas. When he took over on an interim basis in April, after...
BY Alan Greenblatt
Finance
Too Broke to Fix?
Fiscal shortfalls in the tens of billions of dollars are virtually an annual occurrence in California. But this year, the state's voters seem even more...
BY Alan Greenblatt
Finance
Stalled Trains
Transportation might seem like the one issue best suited for local, state and federal cooperation. No transit system is built without affecting the planning process...
BY Alan Greenblatt
Potomac Chronicle
Devolution? What's That?
Right now, federalism means the feds are running the show.
BY Peter Harkness
Politics
Franchise Frustration
The recent bankruptcies of Chrysler and General Motors are halting, for now, a furious burst of state legislative lobbying by the nation's car dealers.
As...
BY Josh Goodman
Politics
Vive Le Roy?
When Roy Barnes lost his reelection bid as Georgia's Democratic governor in 2002, it was the surprise of the year. Now, the man his opponents once...
BY Josh Goodman
Politics
Vacuum in Oakland
Ron Dellums never really wanted to be mayor of Oakland. He expressed doubts when civic leaders recruited him to run in 2006, and ever since then,...
BY Alan Greenblatt
Health & Human Services
The End-of-Life Imperative
The president brought it up himself. He talked seriously to a New York Times reporter in May about end-of-life health care choices--the tremendous drain they...
BY Penelope Lemov
Economic Engines
New Rules for Hard Times
Manufacturing is down even in China. Now what?
BY William Fulton
Urban Notebook
High Time for the High Line
New York City is creating a park in the sky
BY Christopher Swope
Infrastructure & Environment
The Superbarrel Solution
As an engineer with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, John Chang is always on the lookout for ways to save water. Recently,...
BY Brendan Schlauch
Problem Solver
Management & Labor
Hold That Hire
"It's not an easy job being a jailer," says Captain Hunter Petray, who works in the sheriff's office in Benton County, Arkansas. Few would dispute...
BY Will Wilson
Smart Management
Performance Rules
Managing for results is making a bigger difference during this downturn.
BY Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
Tech Talk
Grab the Fee and Run
No phone charge is too small to escape a governor's grasp.
BY Ellen Perlman
Public Money
Breaking Bonds
A subsection of the federal recovery act may kill off the muni bond as we know it.
BY John E. Petersen
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