To a business community confronting 50 sets of rules in 50 state capitols, Washington suddenly looks like a friend.

As more public-policy grads take private-sector jobs, governments are having to work harder at recruitment.

File a civil suit these days, and you can actually get it heard without waiting years.

When a big highway project digs in, it's no small challenge to keep traffic moving around it--and the public enthusiastic for it.

I can't imagine many of you have been to the New Hampshire House of Representatives. But I can help visualize it for you: Just close your eyes and think of an old public high school auditorium.