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Anne Jordan

Former Editor

Anne Jordan was a contributing editor to GOVERNING.

Last week's Public Officials of the Year awards dinner was, as always, a celebratory event. But seeing Chicago Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey (one of our ...
Governing and its readers love 50-state rankings that enable us to make meaningful comparisons among governments. Bucking the tradition of providing useful information, I've assembled ...
If you think the office you work in is bad, check out this except from Dig, Boston's alternative weekly newspaper: From the time they take ...
A few years ago, when my son was 12, he had to have a root canal. I like to believe it's because he didn't brush his ...
Despite a lingering federal investigation into hiring and contracting fraud at city hall, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley won reelection yesterday with 71 percent of the ...
This weekend, I went up to our cabin just outside Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, in part to make sure the water pipes hadn't burst during ...
Yesterday, one of my colleagues here on the 13th Floor was telling me about the decent wine he could get for less than $4 a bottle ...
After attending a conference this weekend in Cleveland, I can report firsthand that Ohio Governor Ted Strickland's new ethics rules are being taken seriously. Both ...
This is part of a series of reflections on a conference I attended last weekend in Cleveland: "The Changing Face of Cities," organized ...
This is part of a series of reflections on a conference I attended May 4 & 5 in Cleveland: "The Changing Face of Cities," organized ...