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Brian Peteritas

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Brian Peteritas is a GOVERNING contributor.

With convention attendance down 40 million people from a decade earlier, why are cities pouring money into building and expanding facilities?
Governing interviewed Time correspondent Michael Grunwald, who argues in his new book that the stimulus has had more influence on domestic policy than any other piece of legislation in decades.
The department’s new website has the feeling of a first-person video game and aims to replace the media as the public’s go-to source for crime information.
With fewer state lawmakers representing rural districts, issues important to rural areas may go unheard.
The mass exodus of baby boomers from the workforce has been a crisis in the making for years. Yet in many cases the public sector is still not prepared.
Drones could revolutionize police work. But privacy and security concerns could keep them grounded.
States have siphoned mortgage settlement funds for purposes seemingly outside the realm of housing, raising some red flags.
A nonpartisan nonprofit helps newly elected female legislators learn how to serve their constituents better by pairing them with veteran lawmakers.
Voters in three states approved marriage for same-sex couples for the first time in history. In a fourth state, a measure to ban gay marriage was defeated.
Honolulu, Hawaii mayoral candidate Kirk Caldwell, speaking about the consequences of electing his opponent, former Hawaii Gov. Ben Cayetano, who is running solely because he is against the long-planned rail project along the city's coastline.