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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.

 

Most experts agree little is being done to make cities more age-friendly, but some cities are taking steps.
Calling the gas tax a 'user fee' is logically and factually wrong.
What connects government default, short selling and union bashing?
Almost a third of the state's workforce is neither a knowledge worker or a service worker. How will the state train and create jobs for this sect of the workforce?
For e-health records to work, physicians need to be brought online.
Angry voters are increasingly using recall elections to remove local leaders.
While critics question the fairness of the bail bonds industry, proponents argue that its services save states money and keep defendants from fleeing.
State and local governments are fending for themselves in unprecedented and imaginative ways. Things will never be quite the same.
In October 1987, the first-ever issue of Governing debuted with a cover story on how in 1980, power and responsibility shifted from the federal government to the state and local level. Now, the same process is taking place again -- but from the states to cities and counties.
States are asking cities to take charge of more programs, but they may not provide enough support.