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The Importance of Partnerships For Municipal Broadband
Internet access is increasingly important in today’s world, as more services and everyday interactions move online. While many local governments see the benefit in providing high speed broadband to their…
Community Schools: An Interagency Cooperation Model
A community school is both a place - a public school - and a set of partnerships between the school and other community resources. Research shows that its integrated focus…
What’s Age Got to Do With It?
Late night pundit Stephen Colbert made a recent prediction: “It doesn’t matter who wins the presidential race—state dinners will begin promptly at 4:30.” Of course he was poking fun at…
Discovering the Public Interest
Public managers are tasked with finding solutions that reverse the fraying of our social and political fabric. One solution is for local government to discover the common public interest, and…
Venture Government
A tech entrepreneur has a brilliant idea. He is looking for seed money, mentors, partners and capitalist minded individuals to help navigate various aspects of starting, expanding and building, and…
Digital Literacy in the Education Sector – Real World Experiences
Education technology curriculum development and deployment is intended to reduce the digital divide for future generations. Public policy regarding education technology should have flexibility by suggesting tools and curriculum examples.…
Climate Change Adaptation: Implications for the Public Sector
Climate change is no longer an abstract concept, or a concern for the distant future. This year is on track to be the planet’s hottest in the modern era, and…
Florida’s Increasing Population and Future Infrastructure Challenges
I live in one of the oldest incorporated municipalities in Florida. People began settling this area in the late 1800s because of the natural spring waters and pine forests. At…
But Where’s the Biology?
The best journal article I’ve ever read is “Revisiting Accepted Wisdom in the Management of Breast Cancer” in the September 1997 issue of Alternative Therapies. That is not just my…
Government Needs More Help from the Academic Community
Recently, Maryland public policy professor Philip Joyce argued in a column posted on Governing.com, “How Academia is Failing Government,” that most academic research is not helpful to government. His point…
A Silver Lining for a Dark Cloud
As we watch economic indicators turning down once more with the slowing of the Chinese economy, most state and local governments realize that tighter times are coming. That is an…