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Lassie Come Home – And Bring Your Friends
Obviously, the domain of public policy directly regulating animals is vast ranging from leash laws to rescuing vanishing species to heading off pandemics. Indirect regulation, e.g., allowing development that destroys…
Police-Community Relations and Services Are Changing in a Positive Way in Cities Throughout America
The public services provided by Police Departments to citizens in our nation’s cities are changing rapidly. This is due to the changing ethnic composition of our society, the national enhancement…
Management and Budgeting for Biodefense Threats: A Call to Action for the OMB
Addressing a major biodefense event in the U.S may require coordination among up to two dozen federal agencies. In order to facilitate this work in advance, a more cohesive budgeting…
Equal Pay for Equal Work: Enough Said
“Equal Pay for Equal Work!” Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp when it’s straight forward and just the right thing to do? Gender inequality has been an…
The Niche for ASPA?
The world of professional development and networking is incredibly crowded, especially given the virtual opportunities provided by social media. ASPA has responded well to this with an ever-growing online presence…
Federal Laws are Not Suggestions
We are blessed to have a constitutional republic form of government— a nomocracy. Law, not the whims and preferences of elected officials, rules supreme. Not being able to change laws…
Does the War on Regulations Make Sense?
On December 14, 2017, the Washington Post reported that president Trump promised to roll back federal regulations from the current level of 185,000 pages to the 1960 level of 20,000…
Americans Want Big — But Unspecified — Changes in the Federal Government’s Design and Structure
The Pew Research Center recently surveyed how the American public perceived America’s political system and democracy. The survey shows there is little agreement on exactly how government should change.…
Building a Performance Management System to Stand the Test of Time
The first step to thinking about performance in the long term is acknowledging that these efforts don’t often come for free. It's common for organizations to adopt performance and not…
Public Service In A Place of Meaning: What We Can Learn From 13 Truckers
There has been quite a bit of talk, lately, about choice. But, what is choice, really? Can it simply be described as a selection among a group or set of…
Infrastructure: A Transformative Driver of en Masse Public Policy
As part of a continuing series dedicated to infrastructure, this article explores the vast and broad-based impact upon a host of public policy issues emanating directly from Infrastructure. Furthermore, this…
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