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Tina Trenkner

Tina Trenkner

Deputy Editor, GOVERNING.com

Tina Trenkner (@TinaTrenkner) is GOVERNING.com deputy web editor. She started at GOVERNING in 2009 and has covered stories such as the rise of the coder in local government and the risks of using social media. Previously, she worked for Education Week and Pre-K Now, a completed project from the Pew Center on the States. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and thinks of Evanston often.

 

In Pleasanton, Calif., radar-like sensors can more easily detect bicycle traffic, providing safer crossings for cyclists and motorists.
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One figure cited for the number of Philadelphians that have gun permits from Florida. Pennsylvania and Florida have reciprocal agreements to respect each other's gun permits.
Constance White, a member of the Utah Department of Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, regarding a $1,627 fine for "attire and conduct" violations due to the bar serving alcohol during a showing of the film "The Hangover Part II." Utah liquor statutes prevent bars from showing sex acts or full frontal nudity.
Public-private partnerships have been portrayed as a miracle cure for the country’s crumbling infrastructure. Indiana’s experience may prove otherwise.
Under the agreement with the Justice Department, Georgia will end new admissions to state mental hospitals and develop assertive community treatment, intensive care management, supported housing and supported employment programs to serve 9,000 people with mental illness over the next four years.
In 2006, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) graded states' mental health-care systems. The national average was a D. In a follow-up three years later, that average didn't change.
Georgia is the latest state to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to move mental health patients out of hospitals and into the community.
The White House office is more prominent and responsive than it ever was.
Ohio EPA Will Leave National Group, State Director Says
Recent movement toward widespread spending cuts has Yasmina Vinci, executive director of the non-profit National Head Start Association, concerned for the program's future.