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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…
Best Places to Work: More than Just a List
As the financial crisis unfolded during the early years of the Obama administration, employees at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) were under tremendous stress.…
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…
Questions in the Aftermath of Deconstruction: Public Administration in a Transforming World
What makes today’s deconstruction different is that a rollback in federal regulatory reach—as expected from Republican administrations—is just one component of a transformation being wrought in public administration. Deconstruction represents…
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…
Examining the Impact of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act
To address the growing level of childhood health issues in the United States (U.S.), healthy school meal programs have been a strategy to improve obesity and fitness measures. To illustrate,…
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