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Sports, Politics and the 2026 World Cup

Sports, Politics and the 2026 World Cup

The fast-tracked joint proposal of Canada, Mexico and the United States to host the 2026 men’s World Cup (of soccer) is a positive development in the relationships between sports and…

Local, State and National Law Enforcement: Police/Community Relations

Local, State and National Law Enforcement: Police/Community Relations

Law enforcement agencies at all levels, of all sizes and in all parts of our country have been addressing the issue of improving community relations from the creation of their…

Something To Think About: Small Business Government

Something To Think About: Small Business Government

Wouldn’t it be awesome to be able to open a small business by visiting just one government office or one website portal to obtain the required licenses, instead of going…

Cybersecurity: Protecting Court Data

Cybersecurity: Protecting Court Data

In June 2016, the international activist hacker group Anonymous Legion claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the State of Minnesota Judicial Branch’s website. This was not the first attack on…

Re-Opening the Conversation about Medicare

Re-Opening the Conversation about Medicare

In terms of health policy discussions, there seems to be a “gorilla in the room” concerning how to handle the ever-closer looming insolvency of the Medicare system. Indeed, even with…

Life Question: Do You Want Health Care or Do You Want Health? Pick One

Life Question:  Do You Want Health Care or Do You Want Health? Pick One

I always get annoyed when I hear about efforts to bring health care to the homeless. It’s not that anyone should be deprived of health care. But what the homeless…

Case Studies, Multimedia, Pay for Success and More: New Additions to the Intersector’s Project Resource Library for Cross-Sector Collaboration

Case Studies, Multimedia, Pay for Success and More: New Additions to the Intersector’s Project Resource Library for Cross-Sector Collaboration

In October of last year, The Intersector Project launched our Resource Library — a section of our website where practitioners, researchers and anyone exploring the field of cross-sector collaboration can…

Agricultural and Food Policy Updates

Agricultural and Food Policy Updates

With much of my attention focused on the wobbly and uncertain path of the American Health Care Act as its moves through the United States Senate, I’ve had to remind…

From The Carriage to The Convocation: How Community Development Can Finance Your Child’s Education

From The Carriage to The Convocation: How Community Development Can Finance Your Child’s Education

Let’s end student loans now! Every year, a child in America is plotted on a path towards a college degree. A tradition which never ends, parents begin their two decades’…

Humor – The Secret of Great Public Leadership

Humor – The Secret of Great Public Leadership

How’s your funny bone doing lately? Have you been taking your colleagues, employees, yourself and others too seriously for your own good? You might even have forgotten how powerful humor…

Police Officers as Street Bureaucrats

Police Officers as Street Bureaucrats

As a professor of public administration, facilitating a series of conversations between police and neighborhood residents in Wilmington, NC has provided many teachable moments. One of these situations is the…