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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.

 

Louisiana learns to use information about its students to create real-life benefits for them.
To cut costs and save face, all of Chicago's police misconduct cases are going to trial instead of settling out of court.
Interest in cities that have fallen on hard times in the Midwest and Northeast brings new cachet to living and working in the Rust Belt.
Infrastructure projects were once largely bipartisan, but such efforts have been tied up in partisan battles over the role of government.
The National Alzheimer's Project Act incorporates the state perspective in implementation.
More states are allowing patrons to bring guns into bars, but what effect will the laws actually have?
States are unhappy with Medicaid costs, but they’re not willing to surrender federal incentives to cut them.
A review of the 2010 census findings and its implications.
A U.S. PIRG report says gas taxes and other user fees don’t cover the cost of building and maintaining our nation’s highways, roads and streets.
Regions have supplanted cities as the nation's economic centers. Local tax structures don't recognize this shift.