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Josh Goodman

Josh Goodman

Former Staff Writer

Josh Goodman, a former Governing staff writer, works on The Pew Charitable Trusts’ state fiscal policy project.

Amid all of the justifiable concern about underfunded public pension systems, most recently in Alaska, it's easy not to notice that some places appear to ...
A few months ago, we told you about a new Ohio law requiring everyone that does business with the state to affirm that they don't ...
posted by Josh Goodman There are lots of ways to get a sense, prior to Election Day, how a political party is going to fare. ...
I wrote a feature investigating two related puzzles for the October issue of Governing: Why have so many gubernatorial candidates won elections in unfriendly places (...
Here's the second part of my series on why Democratic governors have thrived in Republican state and vice versa: Explanation #4: For them to get elected ...
Here are my final two explanations for all those puzzling governors: Explanation #7: Many states prefer one party in today's presidential elections, but have a rich ...
"SayWa" is dead. The State of Washington's nonsensical tourism slogan lasted only six months before officials retired the five-letter failure. Let the record ...
Everyone loves riverfront property, there's just never quite enough of it. But now Nashville has a solution: Build more rivers. The city and the Army ...
With a month's worth of spam rotting in my Inbox, here's the latest gubernatorial election news...
Here are two takes on that ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court: 1) "NJ Court Stops Short of Gay Marriage OK" 2) "N....