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Will Wilson

Former Correspondent

Will Wilson is a former GOVERNING correspondent.

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Is Government Technology Intentionally Frustrating?
Apropos of the Obama staff's rude tech awakening in the White House, Megan McArdle asks, "Why is government IT so awful?" And ...
April 08, 2010
 · Will Wilson
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That Pesky 17th Amendment
Some state budget stabilization funds wound up on the stimulus cutting room floor yesterday. Matthew Yglesias wonders why seemingly strong political constituencies like state-level politicians ...
April 08, 2010
 · Will Wilson
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Watch That Stimulus
Stimulus Watch looks like a website that probably should have been around long before the stimulus package: a thumbnail glance at all of the "...
April 08, 2010
 · Will Wilson
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If You're A Happy State And You Know It...
Utah is the happiest state;  West Virginia the least. That's according to a Gallup self-reporting happiness survey. Broadly speaking, there seems to be a &...
April 08, 2010
 · Will Wilson
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Florida Workforce and the Budget Crisis of 2009
The Florida Legislature is considering cutting every state worker's salary by 5%. Let's put that in some context. In the 2008 Grading the States, here'...
April 08, 2010
 · Will Wilson
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Finally, Data We Can Use: Per Capita Beer Brewing by State
Here's a map, courtesy of SloshSpot, of brewery density per capita in these United States: As a native Montanan, I'm not surprised we'...
April 08, 2010
 · Will Wilson
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Not a Pretty Picture
From Google, state-by-state and county-by-county graphs of unemployment figures for easy comparison. Soon, we'll be able to do this with more data. Hat tip: ...
April 08, 2010
 · Will Wilson
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Hold That Hire
"It's not an easy job being a jailer," says Captain Hunter Petray, who works in the sheriff's office in Benton County, Arkansas. Few would dispute...
March 24, 2010
 · Will Wilson
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Venture Governmentalist
Aneesh Chopra has entered the nail-biting phase of the venture capital investing cycle. He has scoured his market carefully for new uses of technology. And...
March 24, 2010
 · Will Wilson
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The Pain of Cutting Payroll
Whacked by budget deficits and with no end to sluggish economies in sight, states, cities and counties have been forced to make the hardest cuts...
March 24, 2010
 · Will Wilson
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