Archive for August, 2007

Beyond The Beltway – Issues In State and Local Politics

August 22, 2007

By Brad Bannon

 

For a number of reasons, state and local governments will be on their own trying to solve some of the most pressing problems facing the nation. Washington D.C. is focused on the war in Iraq. We have a presidential administration that believes in state and local government problem solving and it’s hard to get anything done inside the Beltway with the partisan divide between Congress and the White House.

Here are some of the issues that are likely to come up in state and local campaigns in 2008 in order of importance.

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