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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.

A couple of years ago, Governing ran a story (4th item) about some wayward deer. One had crossed the Golden Gate Bridge (taking up a ...
Are you afraid of catching the mumps? How about bird flu? If so, you're obviously not alone. But you might be cheered up by some ...
I'm not a great reader of obituaries, but I happened to see that Joe Freitas, the former district attorney of San Francisco, died last Wednesday. ...
Back when Bill Clinton was president, one of the things that drove his opponents nuts and gave pleasure to his fans was the fact that ...
We should note that Jane Jacobs, an important voice in urban planning and design, died on Tuesday, at age 89. Alan Ehrenhalt, Governing's executive editor, wrote ...
Something inevitable is happening in California -- Steve Westly has taken the lead in the Democratic primary to pick a candidate to square off against ...
Ernie Fletcher, the governor of Kentucky, has used his line-item veto authority to cancel $370 million worth of government projects. Naturally, this has caused consternation among ...
This falls more under the pet peeve category than anything having to do with state or local government, but no doubt many of our readers ...
Amidst all the hoopla about the health insurance program just passed in Massachusetts , some people are recalling that policymakers in the state have gone down ...
[Alan reflects on the recent changes to Washington, DC's Gallery Place/Chinatown neighborhood. --Ed.] The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which ...