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Governing
November 15, 2017
Bertha Henry took over as Broward County administrator at what must have seemed to her the worst possible time. She had spent 30 years working up to a top position in local government only to reach it in 2010 in the middle of a crippling recession. Rather than setting ambitious new goals for the county, she had to focusÃâà...
Governing
November 15, 2017
Leana Wen never had her sights set on public office. She was happy working as an emergency room doctor and lecturer in medicine in Washington, D.C. And when the position of Baltimore health commissioner came open, in 2014, she was only 31 years old. But a widely respected former commissioner urged her to applyÃâà...
Governing
November 14, 2017
In 2011, a sociologist at New York University wrote a book that called Phoenix “the world's least sustainable city.” The next year, Greg Stanton became mayor. He treated the book not as an insult but as the template for an urban agenda. Phoenix was the kind of city it had been for decades: a sprawling, car-orientedÃâà...
Governing
November 14, 2017
There are limits to how much a governor can get done, absent help from the legislature. But there's also a lot a governor can do on his own. Terry McAuliffe is proof of that. The 60-year-old McAuliffe, who is stepping down in January due to Virginia's one-term limit, is a Democrat. Throughout his term, the Virginia LegislatureÃâà...
Project on Government Oversight (blog)
June 26, 2007
Last November, Interior Assistant Secretary C. Stephen Allred announced under a swirl of controversy that he had commissioned a new Subcommittee on Royalty Management "to review and provide advice to the department on aspects of mineral revenue collection from federal and Indian lands." But, theÃâà...
New York Times
November 6, 2004
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 — Johnnie M. Burton, who runs the Interior Department's troubled program to collect royalties on oil and gas pumped on public lands, is under attack and out of sight. As director of the Minerals Management Service, Ms. Burton has faced widespread complaints from Congress forÃâà...
