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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.

The National Conference of State Legislatures' Grasscatcher blog, being a good sport, links to a Paul Rolly column looking at how legislators in Utah and ...
I was up in Boston earlier this week, so of course I heard lots of talk about the Henry Louis Gates/Officer Crowley controversy. But ...
This story is about a week old but it's too amusing not to pass on. In fact, I first heard about it on NPR'...
One of the positive developments in the fracturing of the media world is that real experts are now blogging on just about every subject, obviating ...
I've had the chance this year to visit Chicago and Memphis and in both cities I took in at least one blues show. Judging ...
To live in Washington, D.C., is to have friends and family in other parts of the country. And while talking to people I know ...
I finally got around to seeing Julie & Julia. No one told me how anti-government-work it is.
Before I went to Memphis for our September 2009 cover story on Shelby County, Tennessee, Mayor A C Wharton Jr., at least two people had told ...
I'll admit to feeling some ambivalence about the Roman Polanski case, but my bottom line is that if he's extradited and serves time, ...
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. That doesn't mean they have to occur in the same place. Anne Gannon, the tax collector in ...