Governors: States are where the action is (Opinion)
CNNEditor’s Note: John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, was the governor of Colorado. By the end of the month, 21 new governors will have been inaugurated across the country, joining Alaska’s Mike Dunleavy, who was sworn in at the start of December. Together, with bipartisan support, Tennessee made the largest investment in K-12 education in the state’s history, reorganized the higher education structure to empower student success and post-secondary credentials, and saw children of all ages reach new levels of educational success. Scores of important bills passed, many by unanimous vote, as the state’s leaders reached across the aisle to find agreement on stabilizing pensions, addressing a backlog of transportation projects, increasing broadband internet access in rural areas, and bringing new resources to bear on the opioid epidemic, to name just a few. It’s easy to lose sight of these simple truths in the isolation of the governor’s office, so our last words of advice were for new governors to leave their capitalswhenever possible.
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