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Alan Greenblatt

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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.

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 ...
My son is too young as yet for school, but I already have the sense that kids are pretty heavily propagandized when it comes to ...
In the new issue of Governing, I write (6th item) about the potential opposition to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. I resisted the urge to ...
Have you heard? Meth use is down. Both in terms of overal use and the number of new users. So says a National Survey on ...
Here's a classic example of reactive law-making. The Chicago City Council's transportation committee has approved an ordinance that would significantly increase fines for motorists who ...