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Brian Peteritas

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Brian Peteritas is a GOVERNING contributor.

It’s the best time in probably the last 75 years to overhaul and upgrade our infrastructure, but city halls and statehouses are letting the moment slip away.
Without strong federal policies, states have become more active and divergent.
Fusion centers were created in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks to improve information gathering and intelligence surveillance among law enforcement agencies. But their effectiveness and legality has been questioned ever since.
Foreclosure sales accounted for 35 percent of all home sales in Georgia, the highest percentage in the nation.
Nancy Denson, mayor of Athens, Ga., speaking at Governing's Georgia Leadership forum, on the belief that everyone needs to go to college.
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The number of officials at all levels of government that faced recall elections in 2012. The year before, 151 public officials' jobs were threatened.
The state that pioneered sober high schools, and once was home to a dozen, will be down to four next month following financial woes and an inability to establish a working model for success.
Officials from the seven states dependent on water from the river express a cautious willingness to join the U.S. in a complex, possibly contentious effort to save water as drought fears grow.
After a ruling by the 11th Court of Appeals in favor of landowners seeking to block construction of a reservoir, the state's water plan may be subject to an increasing number of legal challenges.
The Milwaukee County Board Thursday voted to hire an outside legal firm to help clarify and possibly challenge state legislation that would cut the authority and funding of the board.