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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 two big-city mayors here in the national capital area each unveiled their plans for the future this week. The difference in what the men ...
I know even less about Harriet Miers, President Bush's new Supreme Court pick, than most people blogging about her today. But there's one thing about ...
Regionalism is a hot topic lately. City and county leaders in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other cities have been talking about merging departments for efficiency's ...
In Kansas, they can't stop arguing about education. First came a big-money fight between the state supreme court and the legislature about how many hundreds ...
Events in recent weeks have led to plenty of squabbles about issues generally relating to federalism and intergovernmental relations. Most prominent, of course, has been ...
The San Francisco Chronicle yesterday ran a 2,000-word interview with Warren Beatty, who has been making a lot of noise during California's special election season. ...
Sex offenders have become social lepers. As such, they may soon need their own island colony. There won't be many other places left for them ...
What is it about local government that makes so many former state and federal officials want to end their careers working for a city? Doug ...
The news out of San Diego keeps getting worse. Media outlets secured the release last week of 60,000 documents related to the city's $1.4 billion (and counting) ...
Obesity is not only an increasingly important public health problem. It also presents all manner of difficulty for coroners who have to dispose of larger-than-usual ...