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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.

Courtney posts a comment to my piece below on the Scooter Libby indictment, wondering what it had to do with state or local government. Fair ...
Buried at the bottom of the Washington Post's first swing at the federal tax reform commission's recommendations, issued today, is the bad news state and ...
The embarrassing merry-go-round of judges in the Tom DeLay case illustrates the growing problem of partisanship in the judiciary. First, one judge was removed from ...
In recent Governing profiles about big-city school superintendents, I noted that both Philadelphia's Paul Vallas and Boston's Tom Payzant have made a big push to ...
This hasn't been a good month for anti-tax crusaders. Voters in several elections sent a clear signal that they are willing to dig deeper to ...
Texas has become the 18th state to amend its constitution to ban same-sex marriage. As our hard-working election night blogger Josh Goodman points out, the ...
I'm heading down to Louisville today for a conference on regionalism. There should be a lot to talk about. Residents of Topeka and Shawnee County, ...
Clearly, some cities have a bad case of Bilbao and/or Millennium Park envy. Having built up big convention centers and filled revitalized downtowns with ...
Hope you're sitting down--here's news that will shock you. The prospective baseball stadium to be built here in Washington to accommodate the Nationals will cost ...
The lack of competitive elections in legislative and congressional races is a matter of much concern to political observers. Yesterday, I spoke with Dan Walters, ...