Features

• Barrier-Free IT
• By: Ellen Perlman
• Making state and local government Web sites accessible to people with disabilities is less a matter of dollars than sensitivity.

• A Rage to Reorganize
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Governors are bent on reshaping and updating the way their governments work.

• Rolling the Credits
• By: Christopher Swope
• States are competing to lure filmmakers from Hollywood by offering hefty tax breaks. Are they giving away too much?

• Setting Limits on Medicaid
• By: Penelope Lemov
• From TennCare's end to Florida's proposed new beginning, state Medicaid programs are working through difficult times.

• The Fiscal Fast Lane
• By: Ellen Perlman
• When a county is growing like Topsy, its finance officers have to move even faster--just to keep up.

• Father Time
• By: John Buntin
• There's a growing focus in welfare policy on a long-neglected part of the problem: fatherhood.

Up Front

• Good Deed, Punished
• By: Jonathan Walters
• A noble notion to limit state contractors from contributing to political campaigns put New Jersey crosswise with the feds.

• Fiscal Finagler
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Illinois politicians admire John Filan's ability to balance a budget. Not all of them admire his way of doing it.

• Developers (Heart) NY
• By: Otis White

• States' Not-So-Dire Straits
• By: Alan Ehrenhalt

The Business of Government

• Thinking Inside the Jury Box
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Courts are trying to make their proceedings less baffling and more bearable to jurors.

• Space Hogs
• By: Ellen Perlman
• SUVs Send Cities To the Redrawing Boards

• An Airport's Big Deal
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• LAX reaches out to keep expansion problems at bay.

• The eTax Collector Cometh
• By: Ellen Perlman
• As states streamline their sales tax codes, they are moving ahead with the technology to make it easy for online businesses to collect the tax.

• CSI: Orange County
• By: Ellen Perlman
• Building a Better DNA Database

• A Balancing Act
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
• Contracting out services can benefit the bottom line, but not always. The trick is to figure out when it does and doesn't.

• Adjusting for Age
• By: Penelope Lemov
• A new accounting rule could seriously undermine the health insurance that states and localities provide to their retirees.

• Municipal Makeovers
• By: Christopher Swope

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• By: Christopher Swope

• Look Ma, No Bait!
• By: Elizabeth Daigneau

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• By: Elizabeth Daigneau

• Conventional Wisdom
• By: Elizabeth Daigneau
• Conventional Wisdom

• Breaking a Bond
• By: John E. Petersen
• Advanced refundings are on the line as the federal government sees revenue in cutting off some muni bond tax breaks.

• Byte Bait
• By: Christopher Swope
• North Carolina Ponies Up for Computer Jobs

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• By: Christopher Swope

• Bay Property, Sleeps 6,000
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Real estate values may condemn San Quentin.

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