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Flint’s Water Crisis: America’s 21st Century Boston Tea Party
It is vital that we, as public administrators, learn from monumental mistakes and injustices such as the tragedy that occurred in Flint, Michigan. …
Work and Education for Offenders
Closing the gap on what works (and doesn’t work) for criminal offenders using scientific evidence is necessary to recognize sensible justice policy for corrections reform. …
Goal-Critical Public Service Decisionmaking
Goal-critical objectives are those that are indispensable and vital to delivering public services. Goal-critical public service is not what is trending; it is what is needed.…
Perceptions of and Barriers to Affordable Housing in Virginia
More than three in four Virginians (78 percent) see housing affordability as a problem in America today, and almost half (47 percent) see it as a very serious problem, according…
It’s Time To Open Up Our Political System
It's time for the United States to make it easier for voters to have more options on at the ballot box. To end partisan gerrymandering, our nation's political system needs…
The Policy Implications of the Soccer World Champions
The 2019 United States Women’s National Team did not just win its country’s fourth World Cup, but also seized the cultural and political moment throughout its soccer triumph in France…
Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. Bias. Cultural Commitment or Survey Swag?
Commitment to cultural diversity, equity, and inclusion are more than goals and objectives. They are a human priority. …
The Budget’s New Clothes…Again
In 1971 Leonard Merewitz published Budget’s New Clothes. It was a critique of the Planning, Programming & Budgeting (PPB) system that was the budgeting fad of the moment for the…
Justice as We See It
We must be willing to hold each other accountable while at the same time creating a reasonable process by which each person in our community has equal access to health,…
Politics in Academia: Positive or Negative?
Understanding organizational politics is now considered a vital and much needed survival skill. Leaders in academia, as in other public organizations, need to hone their understanding of how politics play…
Mind Your Blind Spots: Racial Equity and Transportation Policy
In the 20th century, cars and car ownership became almost universal in America, reshaping where and how people lived. But ignoring how this car friendly system can maintain and worsen…
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