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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.

Joe Riley, the celebrated mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, announced on Friday that he will seek a ninth term next year. Riley has been in ...
Tommy Thompson, the former governor of Wisconsin and secretary of Health and Human Services during President Bush's first term, has been peddling lots of ideas ...
The thing that political journalists care about the most is conflict -- two sides taking shots at each other over policy or partisanship or anything ...
posted by Alan Greenblatt Only people in Iowa are following the CIETC scandal. For our purposes today, it's enough to know that Archie Brooks, a ...
A judge ruled Friday that Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher won't have to face charges stemming from a hiring scandal until he leaves office. If Fletcher ...
What's the point of passing a law that won't be enforced? The Houston City Council seems particularly prone to cracking down on high-profile problems without ...
Our friends at Stateline.org report that state revenues are as flush as they've been in decades, citing an NCSL survey. So, that's good news ...
I don't doubt that George Allen can be insulting and indeed was Monday to a volunteer with his opponent's campaign. But I do doubt that ...
You may be familiar with the ongoing investigation into hiring practices in Illinois. Members of the Blagojevich administration are accused of improperly letting political considerations ...
The U.S. House has voted to allow the president to call up the National Guard in times of emergency without so much as a ...