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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.

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 ...
Reading this story about how motorcycle deaths in Florida have shot up 67 percent since Governor Jeb Bush, in his wisdom, repealed the requirement that bikers ...
Have you got clout at Chicago city hall? If so, you're on the list. As part of the ongoing trial of former patronage czar Robert ...
"Once a report is made public, the damage from any inappropriate contents cannot be undone." So says a motion filed by Kentucky Governor ...
There was no fanfare, no Supreme Court justices sitting on their hands, no heroic figures occupying a place of honor next to his wife. Nonetheless, ...
Two Bay Area transit authorities released their annual survey on traffic in the San Francisco area and, as the Chronicle reports, it's bad and getting ...
Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher has been having his problems. He just doesn't want people -- especially state employees -- to know about them. We noted ...
We were pleased yesterday to jump on the liberal blog bandwagon regarding the story that Kentucky had blocked access to blogs from state computers. Now ...
It's old news by now that Robert Smith was fired last week from his post on the board of Washington's Metro transit agency for referring ...