Features

• Tough Times For Locals
• By: Christopher Swope
• Florida lawmakers make deep cuts in the property tax and leave it to voters to OK even deeper cuts.

• eHealth confidential
• By: Ellen Perlman
• Can health information exchange systems keep snoops out of patients' online records?

• Teaching Past the Test
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Schools are leveraging data collected for No Child Left Behind to improve individual student performance.

• Higher Purpose
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• America produces the world's best universities, but not enough graduates. Can states fix higher ed?

• The Struggle to Streamline
• By: Jonathan Walters

• States are trying to make social and health services intake and screening more efficient. Outsourcing may not be the answer.

• The Young and the Restless
• By: Zach Patton

• Confluence of Interest
• By: Tom Arrandale

• Thousands of citizen-led organizations are working to improve water quality across political boundaries.

Up Front

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• By: Tom Arrandale

• Brinkshman
• By: Rob Gurwitt
• As Chicago's transit chief, Ron Huberman is playing some dangerous games. He may not have much choice

• Nothing but a Street
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• For some functions of government, two Texarkanas may be one too many.

• Suburban Strains
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• In many legislatures, suburbs have the votes to prevail--if they can find a way to work together.

• Rod Reeling
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Bashing the legislature is one way to get elected governor. It's a lousy way to govern.

• A Regional Mess
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Cooperation can end in corruption. Iowa learned that the hard way.

• Electric Exuberance
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• A commuter-train experiment in California may have big implications

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• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Health Court Advantage
• By: Penelope Lemov

• The current system of blame and lawsuits is no way to deal with medical errors.

• Privatizers' Predicament
• By: Jonathan Walters
• States face a Congress increasingly hostile to outsourcing.

The Business of Government

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• By: Jonathan Walters

• The Elusive Long-Timer
• By: Mark Stencel

• The turnover in top state technology jobs is higher than that of Starbucks store managers.

• Sense of a Slowdown
• By: Josh Goodman
• To catch a speeder, Arizona tunes up state highways.

• SIC Transit Gloria: A Toll Story in Pennsylvania
• By: Josh Goodman

• An Accidental Outcome
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
• When officials act quickly to solve a problem, they may fail to look at the long-term effects -- and those can create new complications.

• Tax and Abuse
• By: John E. Petersen
• In Virginia, an abhorrence of raising state taxes has run smack into crippling traffic congestion.

• The Big Spill
• By: Ellen Perlman
• When trucks lose their loads, cleaning up gets creative.

• Water Wellness: Taking the Measure of Lakes
• By: Elizabeth Daigneau

• A Twin City Tradeoff
• By: Zach Patton
• Minneapolis sees a triple play in the sale of its parking lots.

• Job Jot: Alabama's Winner of a Car Deal
• By: Ellen Perlman

• Legislators and IT
• By: Josh Goodman

• Leadership's Challenge
• By: Zach Patton
• It's turf, not technology.

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