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This month’s highlights

COVER STORY/Technology
REAL Nightmare:
Can states make driver's licenses secure?
    Online extras: The data race and the privacy question

Health Care Special Report
· Gimme Coverage: pushing for universal coverage
· Digitally Dazed: the struggle for health IT

Economic Development
Back on Track: a surge for transit-oriented development
    Online extra: Q&As with experts on transit and sprawl

Management
Data-Driven Decisions: Linking numbers and spending
    Online extra: comprehensive resources
   on citizens and performance

Columns
· Assessments: Alan Ehrenhalt on the ups and downs of new governors
· Tech Talk: Ellen Perlman on the search for young IT talent
· Potomac Chronicle: Donald F. Kettl on the clout of the PIGs
· Transportation: Alex Marshall on why projects take so long
· Economic Development: William Fulton on retiree economies
· Environment: Tom Arrandale on the pitfalls of desalinization