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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.

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
My skills as a prognosticator are about as good as the average political reporter's -- not so hot. I'm living up to that track record ...
Bay Area biologist Terry Preston was concerned about creekside development in her area, so she hit the books to find relevant laws and zoning rules ...