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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. 

To reach all their clients, state human services officials say technology and less rules and regulations are key.
A pilot in Mississippi will determine if constant electronic surveillance can help cut correction costs and crime.
Designing a compensation system that is both fair and promotes efficiency is a real challenge.
In this age of measuring results, has evaluating a program's success become black and white?
What if a program is not producing the results desired? Should state and local officials immediately scrap it?
Amount collected by the Illinois Tollway from Indiana motorists who didn't pay tolls or fines for two years while the tollway's violation notice system was inadvertently turned off.
The amount of snow that has fallen since Christmas in Boston. Plows are depositing the excess snow at six "snow farms," or vacant lots, around the city.
Robert Bliss, spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, on Gov. Deval Patrick's plan to hire 15 additional employees to boost tax collections and examinations of tax returns, particularly those filed by major corporations operating in multiple states.
Robert Lang, urban sociologist at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, on how "old" urban planning terms, such as smart growth and urban renewal, are being replaced with new buzzwords, including intelligent cities.
This is the question the Maryland State Highway Administration hopes to answer with a one-year pilot program.