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Ready to Join: Predictive Markers of Successful City-County Consolidations
One experiment conducted throughout American history has been the consolidation of separate local governments into a single entity, notably in the form of city-county consolidations. The raisons d'etre for consolidation…
Gossip For Good
Organizational communication is tough, but what if there were another lever available to move your message?…
Citizen’s Government Academy Experience
Citizen government academies illustrate public officials’ commitment to transparency. They allow citizens to engage with local government, and arm them with knowledge about how government is organized and operated.…
The Public Manager
Public managers are at the heart of government service. How can public managers be more useful in their citizen-facing, citizen supporting roles? Is there enough flexibility in bureaucracy to design…
Room to Improve: Escape Rooms And Youth Turnout in America
Only 31% of eligible people ages 19 to 29 voted in the 2018 midterms. In Little Rock, Arkansas, a group of public servants is attempting to inspire greater youth turnout…
Environmental Protection, Exemptions And The Military
The military is exempt from many environmental regulations, rules and laws, raising concerns about long-term impacts. Over time the goal should be to move policymakers and the DOD to a…
Process of Change: United States’ Clean and Affordable Energy
Affordable and clean energy is a growing necessity for maintaining resilience against climate change. Prioritizing effective sustainable development goals, similar to the U.N.’s call for clean and affordable energy, will…
Marrying Technology And The Public Sector
Technology should not frustrate constituents who are reliant on their local government for assistance. With substantive changes to technology, information and accessibility can work simultaneously to provide the user with…
Do We Need a New Funding Source for Public Education to Improve Quality?
States should consider classifying teachers as state, rather than local, employees, raise teacher salaries and accept the full cost of teacher salaries. Such a plan would shift collective bargaining to…
Supply-Side Strategies to Reduce Medical Costs
Insurance is ultimately a demand-management financing vehicle, and represents only about half of the $4 trillion United States national expenditure on healthcare. This article flips the market analysis over…
A Natural Approach to Land Use Planning
We typically approach urban planning the same way an architect designs a building. A natural, organic approach to guiding development based on a small set of simple rules takes a…
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