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Recommitting to Public Service Values in Troubled Times
It is no secret our politics are often divisive and lacking in civility. In this environment, it is easy for public service professionals to blame the challenges we face in…
Supporting Our Veterans Isn’t Just the Right Thing… It’s the Smart Thing
Two or three times each year, our attention turns toward veterans and the sacrifices they have made for the United States. Yet sustaining that focus beyond Memorial Day, the 4th…
Teaching with Multimedia: Cinema and Television as a Resource for Teaching Public Administration
There are public administrators all over the US doing meaningful work at every level of government and in all of its departments, providing superb models as sources of inspiration for…
The Policy Perspective on Why Services for Children and Families are Excluded from VTC Legislation: Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Children
In our work with veterans and their families, we encounter agencies that serve primarily parents, agencies that serve primarily children and agencies that serve veterans — without ever asking if…
Putting First Things First: Integrity, Purpose and Purposing
The “heart” of a public service organization—what animates people to serve others and promote the common good—isn't discovered as people perform their jobs and achieve organizational goals. No, this heart…
Undermining the Affordable Care Act
After several public failures, Congress is no longer attempting to repeal or replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA); however, this has not stopped President Trump from trying to fulfill his…
The Tangle of Reality: Reconciling the Social Security Trust Fund with Daily Needs in Times of Crisis
If American senior citizens are secure, it increases overall community resiliency, which in turn fortifies domestic capacity during a large-scale or national crisis. In other words, national resiliency is in…
Seniority vs. Performance
In virtually every aspect of our lives, performance is an issue. It’s the basis for success in almost every occupation. The only sector where that’s not the case is…
Immigrants are Veterans Too
The U.S. military is still the strongest military in the world. At the core of its success are more than its weapons and new technologies. The U.S. military also has…
The U.S. South is a Festering Problem that Requires a Vigorous Federal Solution
We have a federal government for many reasons. One of them must be to intervene on behalf of decency and humanity, as well as national survival, when the parochial local…
Incentivizing Evidence-based Medicine
When treatment plans are guided by an image of the patient as a potentially litigious, hard to satisfy paying customer, with no policies to provide a counterweight and incentivize good…
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