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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.

From a washingtonpost.com chat: Is it true that the thousand monkeys randomly typing at a thousand typewriters have given up on the collected works ...
Here's a new one (as far as I know): The Los Angeles Economic County Economic Development Corporation is taking to the airwaves and the Web ...
Dan Walters, the longtime Sacramento Bee columnist, opens a piece about sheriffs with a sentence that NACo's going to love: "A strong argument could ...
Now that former Massachusetts Governor William Weld has dropped out of the New York governor's race, it might be worth looking back at this Governing ...
It's a tired old cliche of American politics that the job of lieutenant governor is, for the most part, boring and thankless. Like many cliches, ...
We're certainly not endorsing anyone in the race for mayor of Washington, but we do hope that D.C. Council President Linda Cropp can afford ...
In Governing's May issue, I noted (4th item) that Democrats have been cleaning up in special legislative elections in recent months, taking lots of formerly ...
As the year began, Kinky Friedman seemed to have sewn up the role of kooky independent candidate in the Texas governor's race. But state Comptroller ...
It's clear that gang members and the justice system they sometimes encounter operate in different social spheres. You might even say that such (alleged) criminals ...
Fans of cheap irony will want to read this Sacramento Bee story about how the California Reclamation Board plans to meet in closed session to ...