April 2002
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The tobacco industry remains a potent lobbying force, partly by
letting other groups advocate on its behalf.
Reducing the length of sentences for nonviolent offenders is one way
states are cutting prison budgets.
As experiments with deregulation sputter, a new generation of
municipally owned electric utilities is emerging.
States and localities now have to account for the real value of
everything from city halls to drainage systems.
The Bush administration's performance-measurement plans may mean a new challenge to state and local control.
