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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.

 

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The governor's office and the legislature disagreed on how productive fewer days and longer hours were, ultimately bringing back the five-day workweek.
Agencies are going online where vendors outbid each other to provide goods and services for the lowest possible price.
It is true that leaders of New York's Civil Service Employees Association agreed to a major pay and benefits contract. But this should not be mistaken as a victory for Gov. Cuomo or a concession from the union yet.
One officer’s battle with cancer inspired him to take a new approach to policing.
Morgantown, W.Va., is the only place in the world where riders can hop into cars and travel from point to point without stopping at other stations along the way.
Arkansas Medicaid Director Gene Gessow is leading the state's efforts to create the nation’s first statewide payment system.
California Assemblyman Mike Gatto, in a statement responding to Controller John Chiang's decision to deny state legislators any pay for submitting a late budget. Democrats had approved a budget by the June 15 deadline, but it was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The number of feet above sea level that the Souris River was expected to crest at the Broadway Bridge, which would be the highest level ever recorded for the river in Minot, N.D.'s, history. say city officials. Residents in evacuation zones had until 6 p.m. June 22 to leave homes and businesses.
The estimated costs of the death penalty per year in California. This estimate comes from an examination of state, federal and local expenditures for capital cases, conducted over three years by a senior federal judge and a law professor.