A governor brings levity to a weighty job
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Meet New Jersey's new governor, Richard Codey, the Rodney Dangerfield of chief executives.
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The wine has been ordered, the tuxedos have been rented, and the menu has been set. But at the state Capitol, there is something of a damper over Wednesday night's inaugural ball for Washington's new governor.
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RICHMOND -- Campaigning is hard. Governing is even harder.
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The average person may find it tough to understand state government, but Washington state officials want to deploy changes to alleviate state personnel's employment of acronyms, jargon and legalese that routinely pervade interfaces with constituents.
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Both of Washington's potential new governors have experienced the uncomfortable sensation of reading their own political obituaries.
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Bobby Jindal is a highly unusual politician, becoming the nationâs first Indian-American governor in a Southern state where race is inseparable from politics.
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Across the nationÂs 36 races for governor, Republican candidates are playing up their liberal positions.
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Washington&#39;s seemingly endless election for governor, uncomfortably similar to the Florida presidential morass four years ago, has the state&#39;s election system under a magnifying glass.
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California's governor had some words for those who are pessimistic about the economy. Right here, man.
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For disgraced Americans, memoirs  can offer a path to rehabilitation, but for the New Jersey  governor who announced he was gay when he resigned on national  television, his book has led to even more polemics.
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OLYMPIA - If Democrat Christine Gregoire is sworn in as Washington&#39;s second woman governor, the months following her Jan. 12 inauguration will be daunting.
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CAMBRIDGE -- After a week of being excoriated by Massachusetts business leaders for proposed tax increases, Governor Deval L. Patrick yesterday changed the subject to a corporate crowd pleaser: Speeding up environmental regulatory approvals.
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LIKE the rings of Dante&#39;s &quot;Inferno,&quot; there are circles of gossip as defined, in their wispy way, as smoke rings. So consider the odd way that James E. McGreevey&#39;s announcement last week that he was gay and would step down as governor ...
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Voters didn't buy him as a diehard conservative, so the former governor is now trying to be himself -- a goofy nerd who knows how to make the economy work &#13;&#10;
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In the wake of indictments and allegations of misconduct, the GOP's grip on the Governor's Mansion looks shaky
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A governor of a small Northeastern state announces his resignation, driven from office by a gay sex scandal. It happened in New Jersey and it happens again on "Law &amp; Order."
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A retiring governor launches a scathing attack on the way the prison service is run.