Public Officials of the Year 2008

Rick Baker John Carter Mitch Daniels Lillian Koller

Dan Lohrmann Andrew Romanoff Joshua Sharfstein Craig Watkins

Features

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• The Stuttgart Solution
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Regional initiatives that fizzle out here are standard practice in Germany.

• Vallejo's Fiscal Freefall
• By: Anya Sostek

• Are other cities with budget trouble on the verge of asking the courts for relief?

• Blown Out
• By: Ellen Perlman

• It takes one person to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb. Recycling it is another matter.

• Carnival of Democracy
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• What is it about an election year that brings out the weirdness?

Up Front

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• By: Alan Greenblatt

• FEMA Falls into Array
• By: Jonathan Walters
• We haven't heard a lot about botched disaster response this year. There's a reason for that.

The Business of Government

• Lighten Up on Language
• By: Ellen Perlman
• It's awfully hard to get legislators or the public excited about an IT program when the words that describe it sound like gibberish.

• All Systems in Distress
• By: John E. Petersen
• Even if the Wall Street bailout works, state and local governments will have fiscal problems for a long time.

• The Sweet Spot in Sour Times
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
• When times are tough, politicians and managers have the cover to make hard choices.

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• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

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