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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.

You may recall that HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson gave a speech in April in which he boasted about denying a federal contract to someone who ...
I had dinner the other night with a group that included a member of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's cabinet. We talked about how this governor ...
People who visit the 13th Floor probably have heard the term metropolitan "donuts" -- regions where the central city population is shrinking or ...
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Twenty years ago in his novel Roger's Version, John Updike wrote, "The Devil is the absence of doubt." That's a sentiment that Andrew ...
When I saw the headline of this story in the Des Moines Register, "Election watchdog calls residency law out of date," I have ...
A couple of years ago, I wrote a short article about the mayoral race in Rabbit Hash, a small town along the Ohio River in ...
Most reports and studies have no impact. But one released just this week has already resulted in a change in state policy. Human Rights Watch ...
If there's any state where it's clear that Democrats will clean up next month, it's New York. Hillary Clinton will get a big win in ...