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Sustaining Public Services Through Partnerships
Strategic partnerships, when done right, provide participating organizations with a chance to learn and benefit from one another and to achieve results they could not achieve alone. These joint ventures…
Mom and Pop and Skin in the Game
Economic development is an important activity in virtually every political subdivision, from states to cities to bedroom communities. Any new enterprise willing to move in and create jobs is generally—and…
Predicting the Unpredictable: Navigating in Uncertain Times
Today’s Conditions: We navigate every day through a complex mixture of uncertainty, velocity, peril, information over-load, unpredictability…. Mariners have a term for ocean conditions when navigation seems impossible; when the…
How Might Immigration Reform Affect Implementation of the Affordable Care Act?
A raging debate continues in Congress between those who want a legalization pathway for the nation’s 11.2 million undocumented workers and others who view such an approach as amnesty. Even…
Are the Best and Brightest Attracted to Public Service?
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” -Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy During the 1960s and 1970s, interest in…
Recruitment and Retention of Top Talent in Public Service Worldwide
Recruitment and retention of the right staff are two of the major challenges confronting modern organizations as they determine their level of productivity and sustainability. Recruitment determines the quality and…
A Comparison of LGBT Workplace Policies and Religiosity by State
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees working for the federal government have anti-discrimination workplace protections; however, there are no uniform laws governing private and state-level employees. While public attitudes…
The Human Side of Budgeting
Over sandwiches in a local pub, a reporter for the Oregonian newspaper interviewed the city manager and finance director of the City of Trillium. In the midst of the worst…
Providing Access to Preventative Health Care: Child Health and EPSDT
Former South African President Nelson Mandela stated “there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way it treats its children.” As a nation, children are our…
Sustainability and Public Reality
The word sustainability gets mentioned a lot these days in the popular press, in academia and in government. We are told that humanity is faced with the threat of dwindling…
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