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Good Times Bad Times: America’s Modern Gas Curse
Natural gas, as America’s bridge fuel to alternative energies, provides well-paying jobs, enhances energy consumption, yields immediate government revenues and fosters energy independence. Yet, while many reports and data evidence…
Touch-a-Truck: A Tactile Introduction to the Public Service
Touch-a-truck activities also offer a model of how government can and does serve the citizenry. Popular culture presents to children an idealized version of the work of police officers, firefighters…
Suggestions of Bias in Rhode Island
Psychologists suggest that our childhoods help shape the people we become as adults. I grew up in an overwhelmingly rural, white town. The school district was highly rated. My educational…
Teaching through Multimedia to Bring Humor and Laughter into Public Administration Classrooms
Incorporating multiple media in Public Administration (PA) instructional design facilitates simultaneous access to the educational benefits that each can offer individually. Building on this convenience, instructors can focus attention on…
The Paradox of [Hysterical] Accountability
Accountability is something rarely discussed outside of a sound bite on the twenty-four-seven news cycle. A simple Google search about accountability in government spans the gamut from Opioid Commission to…
Ending Mystery Health Care Pricing
No one would go to a hair salon, a dry cleaner or a restaurant that refused to reveal prices in advance. So why are Americans forced to accept this ambiguity…
Celebrity Privilege is Not Celebrity Immunity
Public administrators have a legal obligation to ensure they do not infringe on the special trust and confidence of the public they serve. However, public administrators have fallen under the…
Averting a Crisis: Making Government Service Attractive Again
The interest in public service careers appears to have faded. In a recent survey by Route Fifty, human capital and workforce issues were the number one problem. Annual surveys by…
What the 2016 Political “Earthquake” Portends for the Future Role of the Federal Government
One of my teachers, Walter Dean Burnham, is an advocate of using geological metaphors to understand longer term political patterns. I am going to use his approach to write now…
Update on Water for Toledo
Toledo last made national news for its water plant four years ago when routine monitoring detected microcystin – a toxin produced by the harmful blue-green algae. The Water Department immediately…
The Return of Apprentices
Local governments, as well as the private sector, are embracing a long-time business hiring practice – the apprenticeship. Throughout modern history, apprentices have been a key in developing workers and…
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