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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.

 

The scare caused by the release of dozens of exotic animals from an Ohio backyard menagerie last year is spurring a drive in Washington to put restrictions on the private possession of dangerous big cats.
The campaign trail with Romney has felt like a series of tryouts lately as he tests the chemistry and optics of potential vice presidential picks.
The CEO of the Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth talks about what it takes to make virtual medicine a reality.
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), regarding the provisions in the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which would encourage companies and the federal government to share information collected on the Internet to help prevent electronic attacks from cybercriminals, foreign governments and terrorists.
The amount of growth the American economy experienced during the first quarter of this year, according to the Commerce Department.
The percentage of Republicans who have a favorable view of state government, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center for The People and The Press.
John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent, opening his recent column on the ability of presidential candidates to tell voters truths they may not want to hear.
Now that private-sector groups are allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money in state elections, who’s really running for office?
John Kitzhaber once called Oregon “ungovernable.” Now, he’s forging bipartisan alliances that are making it one of the best-governed states in the nation.
In Michigan, financial advisers take control of cities on the brink of bankruptcy.