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Highlights from the October Issue

COVER STORIES/Politics
· Wired to Win: How the 2006 campaign is being fought
· Against the Grain: Successful governors in the unlikeliest places
    Plus: a Governing politics roundtable

Development
Honey, Our House Is Historic!: Preserving buildings from the mid-20th century
    Plus: interviews with three experts

Management
Scrutiny by the People: getting citizens involved in the performance auditing process
   · Plus: comprehensive links to
    performance-management resources

Outlook on Homeland Security
Worst-Case Scenario: The "master of disaster" picks out a city's weak spots, and more

COLUMNS
· Assessments: Alan Ehrenhalt on the mayor-manager merger
· Tech Talk: Ellen Perlman on automating state child-welfare systems
· Potomac Chronicle: Donald F. Kettl on hot conservative issues on the ballot
· Transportation: Alex Marshall on a popular, but misguided, book on sprawl
· Economic Development: William Fulton on those foreign trade missions
· Environment: Tom Arrandale on zoning in the Wild West