As part of Iowa's fiscal 2002 budget process, state agencies requesting technology funding had to quantify and explain the benefits their initiatives would deliver.

Mississippi has struck a mega-deal with Nissan Motor Co. to build a new auto plant north of Jackson, but will pay a pretty penny to get the plant's 4,000 jobs.

"Change is going to happen," declared Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt in his keynote address at Governing's annual management conference in Salt Lake City.

Drawing new political districts is always chaotic, but this round promises to be the wildest yet. Everyone at the table has an agenda.