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Governing serves the people who lead, manage and direct public agencies as they work toward well-managed, vibrant and resilient communities.

Past Issues
  • Read about the stimulus' impact on transparency, how Toyota's management style saved health care, how game theory is reinventing crime fighting, the battle between preservation and progress, streetcars' comeback, El Paso's water conservation efforts and more.
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  • Read about the issues and state legislators to keep an eye on in 2012, how language fits into the immigration issue, the boss of Boston and more.
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  • Read about the future of green jobs in red states, a conservative group's return to power, a new risk-free way to finance social programs, the million-dollar question in Houston, cybercrime in small-town America and more.
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  • Read about GOVERNING's 2011 Public Officials of the Year, the Amazon tax battles, maintaining fairness in redistricting, New Jersey's rescue of Atlantic City and more.
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  • Read about how private-sector cash is reshaping education, why the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs matters, Georgia's new home for mental health patients, the risk of privatizing roads, the latest trend in urban parks and more.
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  • Read about a new way to fight terrorism, five Medicaid-savings strategies, the price of medical illiteracy, states' space race, forestry collaboration and more.
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  • Read about North Dakota's oil boom, how a small town hosts the nation's largest concert, corporations' new role in state parks, the threat to MPA programs and more.
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  • Read about public union fights, rewriting retirement, new approaches to policing, problems with cloud computing, a one-of-a-kind transit system, innovative views on urban planning, and more.
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