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To address the growing level of childhood health issues in the United States (U.S.), healthy school meal programs have been a strategy to improve obesity and fitness measures. To illustrate,…
Natural gas, as America’s bridge fuel to alternative energies, provides well-paying jobs, enhances energy consumption, yields immediate government revenues and fosters energy independence. Yet, while many reports and data evidence…
Touch-a-truck activities also offer a model of how government can and does serve the citizenry. Popular culture presents to children an idealized version of the work of police officers, firefighters…
Psychologists suggest that our childhoods help shape the people we become as adults. I grew up in an overwhelmingly rural, white town. The school district was highly rated. My educational…
Incorporating multiple media in Public Administration (PA) instructional design facilitates simultaneous access to the educational benefits that each can offer individually. Building on this convenience, instructors can focus attention on…
As the financial crisis unfolded during the early years of the Obama administration, employees at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) were under tremendous stress.…
Accountability is something rarely discussed outside of a sound bite on the twenty-four-seven news cycle. A simple Google search about accountability in government spans the gamut from Opioid Commission to…
No one would go to a hair salon, a dry cleaner or a restaurant that refused to reveal prices in advance. So why are Americans forced to accept this ambiguity…
Public administrators have a legal obligation to ensure they do not infringe on the special trust and confidence of the public they serve. However, public administrators have fallen under the…
What makes today’s deconstruction different is that a rollback in federal regulatory reach—as expected from Republican administrations—is just one component of a transformation being wrought in public administration. Deconstruction represents…
What Could Have Been — and Still Can Be
At some point in our leadership career, perhaps just prior to retirement, or leaving a specific position in mid-career, we wonder, what if and reflect on what could have been.…
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