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Helping Our Neighbors Achieve Their Dreams
Across America, high school students and their families dream of getting into good, hopefully affordable, colleges. Community education foundations are an important resource to enhance the lives and prospects of…
Cultivating Leadership: Freedom and Responsibility
If organizations seek to cultivate leadership, they must first consider the virtue of employees.…
Learning from Wisconsin: Why 2019 Promises to be a Dangerous Year
However, the big issues of 2018 were nothing new to PA; the administrative state has always faced legitimacy challenges, budgeting has always been about choices and norms are always changing.…
Reforming and Updating Public Finance Legislation: An Australian Perspective
From my perspective there are not many topics as exciting as public finance legislation. But I also enjoy test match cricket! Here in Australia we have been through a period…
Futuristic Democracy: Is it by Choice or by Compulsion?
Democracy is now widely seen as the best method to use for national government. However, this dominance is less than a century old. The growing acceptance of democracy came with…
Is Robin Hood Still Right for Texas?
Some educational experts say that the general shelf life of a school funding methodology is approximately ten years. In Texas, ours is approaching twenty-six years old. Many believe that this…
Emotional Intelligence: Linking Professionalism, Perception and Human Motivation in the Workplace
Local governments must rapidly develop the technical capacity to utilize Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This use of advanced analytics will inform local government policymakers and empower local government…
Big Data and AI in Local Government
Local governments must radically improve their efficiency if they are to survive and successfully balance between the National Academy of Public Administration’s four pillars of public administration: economy, effectiveness, efficiency…
Survey Says?
As I write this column, the federal workforce is entering 2019 with a partial government shutdown and a pay freeze. This same workforce was subjected to two very short shutdowns…
Rising Above “Fake News”: Is Unbiased Information Gathering within Public Sector Decisionmaking Still Possible?
Whether or not the public service community and its leaders are ready to acknowledge it, a fundamental shift in the decisionmaking process is occurring. Public administrators, at all levels and…
Public Administration Under a Government Shutdown: Is This Now the New Norm?
The images of closed restrooms and overloaded trash bins at national parks only speak to the basic functions of government we tend to forget matter. Perhaps there is no better…
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