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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.

There are lessons to be learned from New York and Pennsylvania.
After Democrats swept judicial elections last year, Harris County is set to become much less landlord-friendly.
Voters aren’t satisfied with how Seattle is managing its growth, which has largely been driven by Amazon's presence.
The number of Hmong legislators, who came from Southeast Asia as refugees, tripled in the Minnesota state House this year.
Legislators are seeking to roll back some of the high-profile ballot measures that voters approved in November. They also want to make it harder for initiatives to pass in the future.
Most of them led to a resignation or election loss.
Staunchly Republican rural counties voted for progressive policies at the ballot box this year, including minimum wage hikes and Medicaid expansion.
Republican Robin Vos, who engineered the lame-duck bills to strip power from the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general, maintains that the maneuver was a nonpartisan attempt to restore balance between the branches.
Most of the students using Arizona’s vouchers are already in top-performing schools.
Incoming Gov. Mike Dunleavy is the sixth person to win the office in as many elections. The constant turnover has made it difficult for the state to solve its biggest problems.