Features

• Blueburbs
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Why Republicans are losing their hold on suburban America.

• Seizing the Initiative
• By: Josh Goodman

• Legislators can't make unwanted ballot measures go away. But they can put them through some extra hoops.

• Breakdown
• By: Rob Gurwitt

• We know how best to care for the mentally ill. But most states lack the political will to coordinate and fund services.

• A Wave of Watts
• By: Zach Patton

• The next source of clean energy may lie underwater.

• Inside Information
• By: Ellen Perlman

• After mapping the great outdoors, GIS finds a new role to play indoors.

• Alert! Alert!
• By: John Buntin

• As local governments discover texting, some residents are saying "TMI!"

Up Front

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• By: John Buntin

• College of Chaos
• By: Donald F. Kettl
• We all know there's something wrong with our rules for electing a president. But fixing it has proved impossible.

The Business of Government

• Stat Governor
• By: Jonathan Walters

• Martin O'Malley ran Baltimore by the numbers. Can he make it work for all of Maryland?

• Down on the Farm
• By: William Fulton
• As an economic development strategy, agriculture usually looks like a loser.

• The Snake Within
• By: Ellen Perlman
• There are ways to spot an employee with an eye on bringing down the network.

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• By: Ellen Perlman

• The Comfort Zone
• By: Alex Marshall
• There's more to moving people around than wings and wheels, speed and price.

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.
• Crime Prediction and Prevention


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