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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.

I was hunting around for examples of dumb laws -- never mind why -- and found one that was just repealed. For decades, Pekin, Illinois, ...
The Bay Area is a rich source of stories today concerning federalism. First, there is what appears to be the final chapter in the federal ...
John Chichester, a 29-year veteran of the Virginia Senate and a 2004 Governing "Public Official of the Year," has announced his retirement. He gets ...
Rich Smith, a British journalism student, spent one Christmas day playing board games. He came across reference to an obscure law in Florida that made ...
By now it's become a tired cliche that independent voices, granted new power and tools by technology, have up-ended traditional public discourse, challenging both media ...
Here's a legislative example of the phenomenon I described the other day with the anti-Hillary YouTube video. Two videos have been posted on YouTube deriding ...
There have been a lot of prominent public officials prosecuted in recent years. Here on the 13th Floor, we often have internal debates about whether ...
Sorry to be a homer, but I have to point out this welcome news for Washingtonians. The head of Metro, our transit system, has announced ...
"This victory was a great victory for those of us who care about the biggest environmental and economic issue of the 21st century." ...
I've been working on a profile of Rick Jore, who chairs the Montana House's education committee despite being the only representative in the state from ...