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The Transition Period – No Honeymoon, Not to Be Taken Lightly

By: Don D. Berglund   The winner of a local or state election has the best chance of later being re-elected if he/she performs well during one particularly critical period…

Project Orchestration – Project Management for the Internet Age, Part 1

By: Shami Dugal What is Orchestration? Leonard Bernstein said that “The right music played by the right instruments at the right time in the right combination: that’s good Orchestration.” Orchestration is…

The Public Manager – Ridicule or Respect

By: Don Busi Most citizens assume there are certain inherent characteristics imbedded within the public service sector work environment that foster the notion that most public career managers are less…

Emerging Issues: Mr. Murray and the Decay of American Virtue: Inequality III

Emerging Issues: Mr. Murray and the Decay of American Virtue: Inequality III


Bill Barnes

Charles Murray’s new book, Coming Apart, is a lament—wrapped around some data and analysis—for an American community and individual qualities that never existed but…

Emerging Issues: Jeremiads on Class and the Nation’s Future: Inequality II

Emerging Issues: Jeremiads on Class and the Nation’s Future: Inequality II


Bill Barnes

There’s not much that’s cheerful in Charles Murray’s Coming Apart or Thomas Edsall’s Age of Austerity: no Fred and Ginger, no Ozzie…

Author Responds to Comments on “Public Administration and the Prevailing Political Regime”


EDITOR'S NOTE: In a Comment on Bertone's PA TIMES Online article "Public Administration and the Prevailing Political Regime" published March 12,…

Emerging Issues: Some People are More Equal than Others



Bill Barnes

A good national conversation about inequality would be useful.

The prospects may seem poor because the current federal election campaigns are shaping up as more wild…

Public Administration and the Prevailing Political Regime, Part 2


This article is part two of two. To read part one (and other articles by this author), see the Related Articles box below. To comment on this, or…

Public Administration and the Prevailing Political Regime, Part 1



This article is part one of two. Watch for part two to be posted this Thursday, March 15, 2012.

Thomas L. Bertone

In four previous Online

Searching for Fiscal Sustainability: A Collaborative Research Effort, Part 2


This article is part two of two. To read part one, click on the link in the Related Articles box below. To comment on this article, click on…

Searching for Fiscal Sustainability: A Collaborative Research Effort, Part 1


This article is part one of two. Watch for Part 2, which includes the research findings, this Thursday, March 1, 2012.

Rich Callahan, Mark Pisano

An…