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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.

Henry Jenkins, who runs MIT's comparative media studies program, says that the Internet is "the new permanent record." Any jackass behavior you allow ...
Have you forgotten what Michael Dukakis looked like in a tank? Do you have a hankering to hear Richard Nixon talk about busing? Then look ...
I had a lengthy phone conversation the other day with a legislator full of complaints about press coverage of a bill he had sponsored. What ...
For a while, it looked like Tom Vilsack was going to be the only governor or ex-governor in the Democratic presidential sweepstakes, so those of ...
If you're following gubernatorial politics at all this year, you know that Ernie Fletcher is in trouble. We'll have an item about this in the ...
A columnist with AsianWeek in San Francisco was fired after publishing a column entitled "Why I Hate Blacks." Naturally, the paper has taken ...
Fred Risser, president of the Wisconsin Senate, has served for 50 years -- longer than any other state legislator in the country. You can learn about ...
There's no end to revolving door stories. This Houston Chronicle piece offers a good look at how prevalent the practice has become in Texas -- 70 ...
Our parent company, the St. Petersburg Times, commissioned a survey of residents in Largo, Florida, and the surrounding county to find out what people thought ...
Remember the "Massachusetts miracle"? The state continues to be a New Economy winner -- or rather, the Greater Boston area does. Much of ...