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The 2021-22 Biden Legislative Ledger Has Spent $4 Trillion. Now What?

The 2021-22 Biden Legislative Ledger Has Spent $4 Trillion. Now What?

It’s important that this $4 trillion in spending is accompanied by accountability. The federal government must strategically assess impact in all the targeted areas of these bills. …

Yes to Suffrage—No to Suffering!

Yes to Suffrage—No to Suffering!

I’m confident that if we apply some basic, necessary guidelines to the voting process, we will be able to discover who wins the 2024 Presidential and Congressional elections before we…

Customer Service: The Nature of Distributed Work

Customer Service: The Nature of Distributed Work

Though we have been serving people in the distributed environment—can I say forever?—the demands are growing and governments and employees need to improve. …

Public Administration: Endless Lifelong Learning

Public Administration: Endless Lifelong Learning

Instead the intent of this article is to identify and describe the unique, ongoing, diverse, continuous improvement and lifelong learning opportunities naturally “built-into” a public administrator's job.…

Recent Supreme Court Jurisprudence and the Bill of Rights: Part 2—Schools of Thought Governing Legal Interpretation

Recent Supreme Court Jurisprudence and the Bill of Rights: Part 2—Schools of Thought Governing Legal Interpretation

The ideas of incrementalism, reasoning by example and doctrinal and moral interpretation should receive greater emphasis by our Supreme Court lest we allow men long dead do our thinking for…

India & G20: “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth One Family One Future”

India & G20: “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth One Family One Future”

The G20 countries are facing several challenges related to climate, energy security, food security and the problem of global health. As the theme “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” means “One Earth One Family…

About Time…

About Time…

If we teach the citizens we serve about the services we public administrators provide, public support of bureaucratic organizations will increase.…

From the Politics of Governing to the Politics of Winning

From the Politics of Governing to the Politics of Winning

It is easy to conclude this campaign was just politics as usual, but something more is going on in Wisconsin...…

Plastic Recycling vs. Climate Change: Part 1 – A Road Paved with Good Intentions

Plastic Recycling vs. Climate Change: Part 1 – A Road Paved with Good Intentions

The most common plastic I regularly find in the roadway are broken off pieces of those blue recycling bins provided by Montgomery County...…

Shaming for Naming

Shaming for Naming

Naming, renaming or recalibrating a name can serve to facilitate societal education and understanding in the public interest.…

Social Equity: The Wrong Value Commitment?

Social Equity: The Wrong Value Commitment?

It may be time to rethink social equity as a core value goal of NASPAA and the public administration profession and supplant it with a commitment to social equality, a…