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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 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 ...
The New York Times ran a story the other day about how Hurricane Katrina, rather than leading to a rebirth of big-government liberalism in areas ...
The other day, I put up a post about Iowa's stringent new sex offender residency law. Today, the Des Moines Register takes an interesting and ...
As Hurricane Wilma slams into the Florida coast, emergency officials should be well-prepared to deal with the consequences. After all, Florida has been pummeled by ...
Kansas now has the image of being one of the most conservative states in the country--a solid supporter of Republican candidates, center of the hottest ...
The parody blog purportedly written by Harriet Miers has been a big hit, linked to by bloggers everywhere and the subject of a friendly piece ...
A couple of weeks back, I wrote that a new law in Des Moines, which may be imitated throughout Iowa, threatened to make it impossible ...
U.S. Supreme Court nominations are not the only forum for partisan debates   a bout the legal system. Immediate reaction to the indictment ...
The Newark City Council voted to pay a local weekly $100,000 to run positive stories about the city. Why is this bad? Let me count the ...