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All Hands on Deck: A Clarion Call for Civic Service
Widespread civic service is a crucial policy proposal for the nation’s future. …
Water, A User’s Guide. Part Two: Quality
Water quality is just as important as its quantity. Access to safe water is not just a third-world problem. It also is a concern in the United States. …
Land Use Development Must Address Global Warming and Public Infrastructure Costs
While the expertise of land use planning professionals needs to be recognized and respected, city and county managers must actively engage in the development of our urban areas.…
Holding Out for A Hero? The Importance of Time in Achieving Social Equity in Public Administration: Lessons from Texas
Stalling and swift policy changes are important keys to ensure socially equitable governance. But policy terminations, processing times and ineffective deadlines threaten those protections.…
My Body—My Life
Freedom of choice is precious but personal preference should not outweigh the social costs (our social responsibility) for the impacts of our decisions.…
Cybersecurity Challenges for the Public Sector
This post will cover some of the common cyber threats that target the public sector and some of the steps that can be taken to protect against these threats.…
Police Response to Rising Crime: Are We Becoming Ungovernable?
If laws, prosecution and the role of police are decreased, dismissed or abolished, do communities become safer or less safe? Perhaps the answer lies inside the community itself.…
A Comprehensive and Precise System: The United States Needs Political Will to Fully Institute Genomic Surveillance against COVID-19
As the United States confronts present and future COVID-19 mutations, it is crucial now more than ever to institute a comprehensive and precise surveillance system to identify the variants, where…
Local Domestic Terrorism
Law enforcement leaders can no longer ignore what is happening in their agencies. They must be proactive, investigating and removing individuals who place our communities and agencies at risk.…
COVID-19: Still Tame or Wicked? Both.
A wicked problem is complex. There is no single solution for it, and it has no stopping rule. A tame problem can be solved. Only one answer exists to this…
Disaster Donations: Frozen Lasagnas and Fur Coats
I worked the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and tried to stem the tide of worthless stuff from the United States. The following lessons from then are just as relevant today. …
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