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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.

 

Philadelphia Board of Revision of Taxes clerk Donna Aument, who had said that clerks are not responsible for the inaccurate property assessments that have gotten...
Houston Mayor-elect Annise Parker, a seven-time elected official, explaining her upcoming priorities to local reporters. National publications have noted that with Parker's election, Houston is...
Nina Brodeur, a citizen of Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, who realized she can live with wind farms the state wants to erect near the island, obstructing...
Cobb County, Georgia Judge Robert Flournoy, issuing a direct verdict regarding a case against a 36-year-old teacher who admitted having a sexual relationship with a 17...
Juan Arambula, an independent California assemblyman from Fresno who has decided not to run for the state Senate next year after his term in the...
John McCoy, a Washington state representative and Tulalip tribal member, in regards to a settlement in which the U.S. government said it would pay $1.4...
Utah Governor Gary Herbert, talking to reporters from the Salt Lake Tribune while in Washington last week. Herbert anticipates that he can slash the state...
Republican political operative Ed Rollins, on CNN's "State of the Union," on one potential fate for Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the Virginia socialite couple who...
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, saying she isn't going to play "word games" over a state Capitol lobby's holiday decorations, which had generic names -- "holiday...
Statement attributed by Pierce County, Washington, jail workers to Maurice Clemmons, the suspect in the killings of four Lakewood, Washington, police officers who was later...