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Elizabeth Daigneau

managing editor

Elizabeth Daigneau -- Managing Editor. Elizabeth joined GOVERNING in 2004 as an assistant web editor. In addition to her editing duties, she writes about energy and the environment for the magazine. Before joining GOVERNING, she was the assistant to the editor at Foreign Policy magazine. She graduated from American University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and literature. 

A new GAO report finds that states don't do a particularly effective job of monitoring kids on psychotropic meds.
The Granite State has a unique governmental structure that ultimately gives residents more power than state representatives.
A tax fight in Missouri may signify the limits to cuts.
Researchers are studying how motorists interact with their cars in the moments before a crash.
States that don't recognize same-sex marriage will face a few tax complications come 2014.
Despite the governor's best efforts, the economy is struggling and so are his approval ratings.
A new conservative report claims welfare benefits disincentivizes people to work. Federal data, however, suggests that's not the case.
It's generally true that if things are good in state, than things are good for the governor. There are some exceptions, though.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on the mixed reviews to Colorado's new logo -- a green triangle with a snow-capped peak and the state abbreviation CO -- and tagline, "It's our nature."
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Number of questions removed from most civil service job applications in California three years ago that allowed an embezzler to return to state government work after she went to prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from another agency.