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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.

If you're following the news about the news, you've probably heard that many media companies are hoping to find successful niches in so-called ...
I wrote a cover story early last year on foreclosures, looking at Dayton, Ohio, to give a sense of what the effects were like in ...
There's been a debate of sorts in recent days in the liberal blogosphere on the question of whether states should be eliminated. Matthew Yglesias, ...
I have to admit that I'm a very late adopter. I'm a big music fan, but all my friends had iPods before I ...
In this January 2010 feature from our archive: State legislatures may not be as partisan as Congress, but they're getting closer.
The printed agenda for meetings of the county board in Monroe County, Wisconsin, always reminds elected supervisors to wear name tags, because "it helps visitors."...
California has just enacted a huge and enormously complicated package of bills meant to put an end to the state's longstanding water wars. But the...
Gambling interests seeking permission to move into a state like to tell voters that neighboring states are already profiting from casinos and lotteries, so they...
How well can Johnny add? Right now, states try to answer that question in troublingly disparate ways. According to one recent federal study, a fourth-grade...
As the votes were counted in mayoral races across the country, the biggest shock of the night occurred in a race that turned out just...