Editorial Calendar

PA TIMES Online Editorial Calendar

Due dates are rolling throughout the year. Columnists should refer to their columnist acceptance letters for specific due dates. Ad hoc submissions are accepted through [email protected] at any time. Articles should refrain from taking a partisan perspective on the issues under discussion; we encourage articles to be focused on public administration, not politics.

Winter 2025: Public Service
Topics for this period include but are not limited to:

• State and local government
• Performance-based initiatives
• Standards for government efficiency
• Employee recruitment, retention and training
• Cultivating leadership
• Nonprofit and NGO collaboration
• Volunteerism
• Civic engagement, community visioning and public service motivation
• Accountability standards and best practices
• Ethics in public service
• Acting in the public interest/public good

Spring 2025: Infrastructure and Public Finance
Topics for this quarter include but are not limited to:

• Budgeting and reporting
• Acquisition, contracts, procurement and grants
• Public debt
• Retirement systems and pensions
• Public-private partnerships
• Public health costs, care and maintenance
• Roads, highways and bridges
• Election administration
• Water and power management
• Nonfunctioning infrastructure
• Cybersecurity
• Artificial intelligence
• Technological breakthroughs and emerging trends

Summer 2025: Social Equity
Topics for this quarter include but are not limited to:

• Public services in and for at-risk communities
• Immigration policy
• Police and community relations
• Indigenous people, policies and services
• Equity in the community and the workplace
• The opioid crisis
• Equitable use of technology
• Structural inequality
• Equitable public health
• LGBTQIA policies, challenges and concerns

Fall 2025: International Public Administration
Topics for this quarter include but are not limited to:

• Services across borders
• UN SDGs
• Global infrastructure
• Global equity
• Nation-building
• Migration and immigration
• Comparative public administration
• Country-specific challenges and strength