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Rob Gurwitt

Former Correspondent

Rob Gurwitt is a GOVERNING contributor.

Technology is changing the way citizens interact with local government.
If Virginia governors could serve two terms, they'd get a lot more done. But would the state be better off?
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The coming year will be excruciating for state budget-makers not just because revenues continue to decline and new rounds of budget cutting are necessary, but...
The Wu Tang Scram of tofu, bok choy, Napa cabbage and cashews served at Julian's, a restaurant in Providence, Rhode Island, might not seem like...
When she took over as Los Angeles controller in 2001, the most trenchant piece of counsel that Laura Chick received from her predecessor, Rick Tuttle, was...
It took Laura Chick barely a month in Sacramento to start making waves. As California's new inspector general charged with overseeing how the state spends...
During the first week of December 2006, about a dozen Los Angeles hotel workers set up a week-long fast outside the Westin LAX hotel, not far...
Under New York Police Commissioner Bratton and his small brain trust of tacticians, the NYPD became a proving ground for police officers and officials who took seriously the idea that they could prevent crimes from occurring.
On a sunny fall afternoon, Rafael Ramos pulls up in front of a modest house in a working-class neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. He hops...