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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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Gambling on Lottery Privatization
Today's big topic in privatization is infrastructure: toll roads, parking garages and airports. Tomorrow's, though, seems to be lottery privatization, something Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Public Employee Retirement Benefits: An Overblown Crisis?
With state and local governments facing, by some estimates, $1 trillion in unfunded liabilities for retiree health care and other post-employment benefits over the next thirty ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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New York Senate Showdown
Remember how Levar Burton always used to say, "But you don't have to take my word for it," when recommending a book on ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Repeat Performance
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm is losing her touch. Two years ago, in her state of the state address she mentioned "jobs" 52 times. Last ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Popular Vote Partisanship
You'll never guess what's standing in the way of efforts to select the president using the popular vote: partisan politics. Last year, a few states ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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The Value of a Vote
Valentine's Day has come and gone, but don't tell that to two lovers who remain in a tight embrace 365 days a year: money and politics. ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Sex Offender Switcheroo
Since when did sex offenders become so popular? Consider some developments over the past couple of weeks in state legislatures: * On a 32-8 vote, the ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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REAL Opposition?
As the U.S. Senate begins debate today on measures to modify the REAL ID Act, which mandates standardized identification nationwide, what action Congress' upper ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Everyone has a cell phone.
Well, not quite everyone. A recent report from the Federal Communications Commission shows that as of July 2006 there were 215.1 million cell phone subscribers in the 50 ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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Little Engines That Might
I wrote a feature for the March issue of Governing that focused on one of the big reasons that the trains are unpopular for city-to-city ...
April 08, 2010
 · Josh Goodman
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