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Highlights from the January Issue

COVER STORY/LEGISLATURES 2006
· The Truth about Term Limits: the winners and losers
· Issues to Watch: a host of hot-button subjects

Purchasing
Buy By Data: saving with "strategic sourcing"

Health
Medicaid: bridging the gap between care and cost

COLUMNS
· Assessments: Alan Ehrenhalt on legislating unicamerally
· Technology: Mark Stencel on tech-tool usability
· Management: Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene on why we tolerate flawed statistics
· Health: Penelope Lemov on town hall meetings and health
· Finance: John E. Petersen on pension plans and hedge funds
· Potomac Chronicle: Jonathan Walters on intergovernmental wrangling and first responders