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alan-greenblatt

Alan Greenblatt

Editor

Alan Greenblatt — Editor. He is the coauthor of a standard textbook on state and local governments. He previously worked as a reporter for NPR and CQ and has written about politics and culture for many other outlets, print and online. He can be found on Twitter at @AlanGreenblatt.

We've kept close tabs here on the 13th Floor on laws designed to bar sex offenders from living within 1000 or 2000 feet of schools and other ...
The latest poll numbers from Survey USA show once again that many Republican governors are thriving in blue states while Democratic governors remain popular in ...
Normally when neighboring cities talk about merging services, trust between leaders -- or a lack of it -- becomes a big problem. That's apparently not ...
Ever since I wrote a short article in Governing about a lottery scandal surrounding North Carolina's Democratic House Speaker Jim Black (pictured), I have been ...
John Lesch, a second term state representative from St. Paul, Minnesota, is spending three weeks in Iraq and compiling a blog about his trip. He ...
Even after reading hundreds of articles about goods being produced more cheaply overseas, I was still stunned to read that Del Monte is getting out ...
Here's an intriguing idea: A blind student at San Francisco State, my beloved alma mater, convinced university officials to install a half-dozen chimes to help ...
In Governing's February issue, I wrote (2nd item) that despite all the hand-wringing in Washington over whether Samuel Alito and the Supremes would repeal Roe ...
Here on the 13th Floor, we're fond of spouting off about the idea that states lead and Washington follows, with policy decisions being hashed out ...
Initiatives to take redistricting out of the grubby hands of legislators failed in both California and Ohio this past November, but because redistricting is seen ...