FEATURES

• What is the Age of Responsibility?
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• From sex to driving to juvenile justice to drinking, state and local laws send young people mixed messages about their own maturity. Is there a better way?

• In Pennsylvania, Re-Thinking the State Liquor Store
• By: David Raskin

• How one state learned to run its booze bureaucracy like a business -- politics permitting.

• Hydrofracking for Natural Gas - Worth the Risk?
• By: Jonathan Walters
• The controversial drilling technique hydrofracking uses and pollutes lots of water.

• My Big Fat Pension Payoff
• By: Zach Patton

• Publicizing $100,000 pension checks is a way to reform the pension system -- or kill it.

• Stimulus Results: Difficult to Pin Down
• By: Josh Goodman

• Some jobs are saved, but how many?

DEPARTMENTS

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• By: Josh Goodman

POLITICS + POLICY

• For Louisiana's Governor, Jolts from Washington
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Federal rules complicate fiscal life for Bobby Jindal.

• A Spending Spree in Kentucky
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• City and county associations have lavished large sums on travel and entertainment.

• Disappearing Dues in Kansas
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Fees that boards and commissions that regulate professions collect are being raided to balance the state budget.

• Can a White Candidate Be Elected Mayor of Atlanta?
• By: Josh Goodman

• More than City Hall may be at stake in the battle for control of a changing community.

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• By: Josh Goodman

• How Advocates for Fire-Safe Cigarettes Beat Big Tobacco
• By: Josh Goodman

• Soda: the New Front in the War on Obesity
• By: Penelope Lemov

• Compost: the Next Step in City Recycling Programs
• By: Linda Baker

• Collecting food waste is seen as a scrappy way to recycle.

• The Weaknesses of Sweeping Privatization
• By: Alex Marshall
• The most important question is not whether private investment in roads and other public infrastructure will revive, but the degree to which it should.

• Cyclists: Traffic Scofflaws
• By: Christopher Swope
• Cities are asking bikers to obey the rules.

PROBLEM SOLVER

• For Unions, Tough Bargaining Times
• By: Jonathan Walters

• Mayors are asking public employees to to give up raises to save their cities.

• The Management Challenge of Bad Data
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
• Obstacles to coming up with solid, accurate numbers to measure program performance are all over the place.

• Social Media Sites' Handicap Hurdle
• By: Ellen Perlman
• As governments turn to Facebook and its ilk, they aren't paying enough attention to the needs of the visually or hearing-impaired.

• For Cash Managers, New Investment Risks
• By: Girard Miller
• Inflation, rising interest rates and company defaults are among the perils.

• Statewide Zoning: a Pipe Dream?
• By: Alan Ehrenhalt

• Massachusetts' housing secretary thinks he can entice dozens of localities to opt in.

Training Opportunities

• Health Care Reform After the Decision
• In this Mercer Report, you’ll learn how different organizations plan to tackle the new requirements of ACA and discover where most employer concerns are focused, who expects to be hardest hit, and how different health plans and Medicaid may impact overall costs.
• Crime Prediction and Prevention


• Accelerating Economic Growth and Vitality