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Anne Jordan

Former Editor

Anne Jordan was a contributing editor to GOVERNING.

I recently spent a couple of beautiful spring days in Chicago with my family. Like typical tourists, we enjoyed an afternoon walking around Millennium Park ...
If your e-mail address fits the standard government model -- johndoe@agency.state.us or janedoe@anycity.gov -- you are definitely not an economic ...
Add copper to the list of metals that are increasingly being stolen from the public domain, as high demand worldwide has tripled the price that ...
Two years ago, my colleague Rob Gurwitt wrote a feature about Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin's remarkable ability to forge alliances among disparate interests and factions, ...
Six weeks ago, my husband and I went to settlement on a weekend home in Berkeley Springs, an historic town in the eastern panhandle of ...
In the current issue of Governing, my colleague Jonathan Walters relates how some governments are trying to package performance reports (which, he notes, typically "...
Yesterday, after a brief search for a cheap used car, I shifted gears and bought a cheap, new car. It's a little red hatchback with ...
Years ago--okay, decades--when I went off to college, I took along several plastic milk crates. They had served me well as storage units in my ...
An article in the Seattle Weekly bemoans the difficulty of finding a map that shows the city's bus routes overlaid on a comprehensive street grid. ...
My son is currently in the midst of applying to colleges, so I am on heightened alert when it comes to news headlines with the ...