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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 roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
But there's a major difference between today’s efforts and the tobacco lawsuits of the 1990s.
It’s the most littered item in the U.S. -- but it might not be if more places adopted this approach.
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca withdrew his guilty plea Monday to a charge of lying during an FBI investigation into the county’s jails, opting instead to take his chances at a high-stakes trial.
Cursive education has been, understandably, declining, but advocates say it teaches broader skills and is needed for the reading of original documents.
At stake is a question to voters on the November ballot that would raise the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 75 -- a decision that could alter the partisan makeup of the Keystone State's highest court within the next year.
Unwilling to hit property owners for the third time in one year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to raise the city’s utility taxes to save the largest of Chicago’s four city employee pension funds, City Hall sources said Monday.
Federal health authorities on Monday urged pregnant women not to visit a South Florida neighborhood where new cases of the Zika virus have emerged, the first time officials have warned against travel to part of the continental United States due to the outbreak of an infectious disease.
A Mississippi grand jury found on Monday that a white police officer had committed no crime when he fatally shot a black man he had been chasing after the man was pulled over in Tupelo.
A federal judge on Monday blocked North Dakota's voter identification law after a group of American Indians said it unfairly burdens them -- the court ruling follows similar ones in North Carolina and Wisconsin this week that charge the laws disproportionately affect minorities.