If there’s one thing the 50 states have in common when it comes to dealing with local government fiscal crises, it’s that they don’t have much in common. Regardless of the role they play, however, states can learn from one another’s experiences—a process that has been simplified through research conducted last year by Beth Walter Honadle, political science and director of the Center for Policy Analysis and Public Service. Read full story

Beth Griech-Polelle, history, was looking for a hero when she began researching Clemens August Graf von Galen, a Catholic bishop in Nazi Germany. What she found was an ordinary man with all-too-human conflicts. In a new book, Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism, Griech-Polelle examines von Galen’s contradictions. Read full story

Fifteen University employees began a new chapter in life their retirement in 2002. Read full story