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Finding Future Leaders in Federal Government Matters

Finding Future Leaders in Federal Government Matters

As retirement and sequestration in the public workforce become common, we hear more concerns expressed about who our future public managers will be and where they will come from. In…

Pre and Post Termination Hearings: When Public Employees are Entitled to Due Process Hearings

Due to the fiscal woes plaguing many public entities across the United States, not all human resources managers have the luxury of picking up the phone and calling their organization’s…

Promising Practices on the Homeless Front

Despite the bleakness of the situation with the homeless in the United States, where e-snap computer snafus have disrupted U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding and sequestration…

Time to Revisit the Public-Private Debate

Several months ago, I attended a local government conference. One of the speakers was a county administrator who described the challenges of his job. A member of the audience abruptly…

The Evolution of Nonprofit Finance in the United States: Earned Income, Enterprise Strategies and Social Enterprise

The Evolution of Nonprofit Finance in the United States: Earned Income, Enterprise Strategies and Social Enterprise

The United States has a rich history of nurturing nonprofits and thus has a nonprofit sector that is among the most dynamic and wide-ranging in the world, both in terms…

The Budget as the Financial Plan

The Budget as the Financial Plan

The two previous columns have discussed two of the criteria by which the Government Finance Officers Association critiques budgets for the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award – that of a policy document…

The Role of State Centrism in Aid-Dependent Rule of Law Public Administration

Understanding State Centrism With dependence on U.S.-based foreign aid to maintain security and justice public administration, a heritage of elitist state control in a country can both perpetuate this dependence…

Environmental Nonprofits: Sharing with Government, Serving the Public

Environmental Nonprofits: Sharing with Government, Serving the Public

As the third sector, after the government and the private sector, the nonprofit sector is able to focus on specific concerns without the constraints of either bureaucracy or the perverse…

Are Employees Lazy and Stupid… Or Something Else?

Are Employees Lazy and Stupid… Or Something Else?

Last month’s column described the roots of modern budget management systems in the progressive and reform movements that took hold in the beginning of the 20th century. Financial management was…

SCOTUS Delivers Color Blind Ruling: The Dismantling of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Introduction At the intersection of judicial policy and civil rights the U.S. Supreme Court delivered two divergent, landmark rulings last month with national implications. In United States v. Windsor (570…

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