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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.

 

Number of Americans since 2004 whose water supplies have contained illegal concentrations of chemicals like arsenic or radioactive substances like uranium, as well as dangerous bacteria...
The percentage of all households that either don't have a checking or savings account at all, or have an account but rely on "alternative financial...
Average increase in fuel efficiency for vehicles in California as a result of trade-ins in the federal "cash for clunkers" program, the nation's highest increase,...
Amount in unpaid fines and replacement fees due the Denver Public Library, which has already written off $2.8 million of the total as uncollectable.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, in his testimony for a trial currently in progress in California regarding Proposition 8. Sanders, a Republican, testified on his change...
Chattanooga, Tenn. Police Assistant Chief Mike Williams, who's agency was one of the first to use plain talk instead of codes in their communications (as...
South Carolina state Rep. Todd Rutherford, a Democrat and one of 11 representatives that voted against censuring Governor Mark Sanford for bringing bringing "ridicule, dishonor, disgrace,...
Sayed Bilal, a cabdriver in Rockville, Maryland, whose business is affected by gas prices rising toward $3 a gallon. Currently, gas prices for a gallon of...
Cleveland, Texas resident Racheal Alvarado, who found out that her arrest on suspicion of DWI was posted on the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office Twitter...
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, as quoted in an interview from a year ago. Ritter is expected to withdraw from the 2010 race for governor. It has...