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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.

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Pension Puzzle
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 ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Ohio to Governing: Do You Support Terrorism?
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 ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Standing by Their Party
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. ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Puzzling Governors, Part 1
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 (...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Puzzling Governors, Part 2
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 ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Puzzling Governors, Part 3
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 ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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WAat Next?
"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 ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Nashville's New Island
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 ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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SPAM!: Jesse Ventura's Statesmanship Edition
With a month's worth of spam rotting in my Inbox, here's the latest gubernatorial election news...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Judging the Ruling
Here are two takes on that ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court: 1) "NJ Court Stops Short of Gay Marriage OK" 2) "N....
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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