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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. 

It is not a question of whether the federal government will become more demanding and less generous, but when and how.
When work is reduced to a routine, innovative breakthroughs that lead to better, faster, cheaper government become rare.
Confronting privacy and "nexus" issues, courts in several states have handed down new rulings in an escalating battle with online retailers to tax Internet transactions.
A lesson on how to appeal to both the political leadership and the bureaucracy when implementing change.
It involves resolving the political leadership's and the bureaucracy's different appetites for change.
The state of the union, and four positive steps states can take to improve their fiscal outlook.
Three meaningful reform ideas worth sending to the lame ducks in Congress.
If a presidential election results in a tie in the electoral college, the election is then thrown into a GOP-controlled House.
Once a system starts getting to know more about its homeless population, it's much easier to develop targeted, strategic interventions.
The GOP is near a high-water mark for legislative seats that dates back to 1928.