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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. 

The state’s inspector general is investigating complaints that Lt. Gov. Mike Stack, a longtime political player from Philadelphia, and his wife, Tonya, verbally abused members of their state police security detail and household staff at their official residence near Harrisburg. The investigation is said to be at the behest of Gov. Tom Wolf.
Industry experts are predicting (and warning) that a decade-old retrofit program will finally boom.
Portland, Ore., is one of the nation's first cities to fully consider how environmental policies impact minority communities.
Visual illustrations can give meaning to overwhelming emissions numbers.
With Republicans in full control in half the states, climate change skeptics have more power to target environmental programs.
Massachusetts legislators, scrambling to pay for regulators to oversee the nascent recreational marijuana industry, may turn to a controversial source: the state’s emergency savings account, meant only for fiscal crises.
Smaller cities and counties may not be as willing to remain “sanctuaries” for undocumented immigrants as big cities under a Donald Trump presidency.
Prosecutors expect to produce ‘voluminous’ material for discovery, including two million pages of documents and two terabytes of data.
The Brown administration will go to court on Friday to block an unprecedented and potentially disruptive one-day strike next week by California’s largest state employee union.
Efforts to pinpoint the cause of deadly wildfires that engulfed two tourist towns outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park continued Thursday. Gatlinburg Fire Chief Greg Miller said the devastation has been “unfathomable” and warned that the death toll could continue to rise.