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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.

 

Volunteers are taking on jobs once performed by public employees.
While Republicans cruised to victory in both 1994 and 2010, the class of freshman governors elected in 2010 has proven to be strikingly different, at least for now.
Read more about developments in government transparency in Illinois, Hawaii and Virginia in this news roundup.
The average weight that the Federal Transit Authority (FTA) proposes for bus passengers, raising the assumed average weight per passenger from 150 pounds. The transit authority regulates how much weight a bus can carry.
Eric Hogue, a conservative Sacramento talk show host, on recent attempts to ban the media from two events at the California Republican Party's spring convention.
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The number of Massachusetts state retirees collecting pensions of at least $100,000 last year.
Barrington (Ill.) School District 220 Superintendent Tom Leonard. School officials approved $2 million worth of budget cuts that would eliminate nearly 13 school jobs, including teachers, classroom assistants and an assistant principal.
This political committee launches as Republican governors across the country launch broadsides against public employee unions.
BFC Contributor Stephen Goldsmith's column in the Wall Street Journal outlines how the legacy rules of the Progressive Era are crippling government operations.
Matt Lore, spokesman for the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, who said that his organization is developing guidelines and educating municipal officials on how to engage constituents on social media.