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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.

Our friends at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program have put out a study looking at where poor people live. It looks at growth in poverty ...
Here's a plea to all government officials: Come up with a better reason to justify high public-sector salaries and benefits. The Sacramento Bee today reports ...
Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson has put forward a crime-fighting plan that he says will cost an additional $85 million per year. Putting aside the merits of ...
I read outgoing Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's book about weight loss when I was writing a story for Congressional Quarterly about his having shed 110 pounds. ...
Many cities are trying to attract college campuses -- or at least parts of them -- to their downtowns. I've written in Governing about how ...
There are musical groups that seem to have been around forever -- the Platters, the Orioles, the Drifters. One reason for their longevity, which we've ...
The city clerk of Evansville, Indiana, is urging residents to send in money for a worthy cause: shipping golf balls to soldiers in Iraq. Apparently, ...
One of the states where the legislature has spent recent years arguing about social issues, arguably to the detriment of other policies such as budgeting ...
The public schools in Oakland, California, have decided to drop their zero-tolerance policy against lice. Kids with itchy nits will be welcome to stay in ...
posted by Alan Greenblatt San Francisco is an expensive city to park in. Even if you can find a space on the street with a ...