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Using Regulatory Agencies to Implement Environmental Sustainability Programs for the New York State Energy System

New York state has made progress during the past 10 years in using regulatory agencies to make the state’s energy system more environmentally friendly. Specifically, New York state has developed…

Creating a Sustainable World Though Increased Involvement of People of Color and the Economically Disadvantaged

Creating a Sustainable World Though Increased Involvement of People of Color and the Economically Disadvantaged

Now that sustainability terms like geo-fuel, carbon footprint, climate change, biodiversity, etc., have comfortably found their home in the public administration lexicon, many public entities are getting serious about the…

Sustaining Public Services Through Partnerships

Strategic partnerships, when done right, provide participating organizations with a chance to learn and benefit from one another and to achieve results they could not achieve alone. These joint ventures…

Sustainability and Public Reality

Sustainability and Public Reality

The word sustainability gets mentioned a lot these days in the popular press, in academia and in government. We are told that humanity is faced with the threat of dwindling…

Mom and Pop and Skin in the Game

Economic development is an important activity in virtually every political subdivision, from states to cities to bedroom communities. Any new enterprise willing to move in and create jobs is generally—and…

Predicting the Unpredictable: Navigating in Uncertain Times

Predicting the Unpredictable: Navigating in Uncertain Times

Today’s Conditions: We navigate every day through a complex mixture of uncertainty, velocity, peril, information over-load, unpredictability…. Mariners have a term for ocean conditions when navigation seems impossible; when the…

How Might Immigration Reform Affect Implementation of the Affordable Care Act?

A raging debate continues in Congress between those who want a legalization pathway for the nation’s 11.2 million undocumented workers and others who view such an approach as amnesty. Even…

Are the Best and Brightest Attracted to Public Service?

Are the Best and Brightest Attracted to Public Service?

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”  -Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy During the 1960s and 1970s, interest in…

Recruitment and Retention of Top Talent in Public Service Worldwide

Recruitment and retention of the right staff are two of the major challenges confronting modern organizations as they determine their level of productivity and sustainability. Recruitment determines the quality and…

A Comparison of LGBT Workplace Policies and Religiosity by State

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees working for the federal government have anti-discrimination workplace protections; however, there are no uniform laws governing private and state-level employees. While public attitudes…

The Human Side of Budgeting

The Human Side of Budgeting

Over sandwiches in a local pub, a reporter for the Oregonian newspaper interviewed the city manager and finance director of the City of Trillium. In the midst of the worst…