John Buntin

Recent Articles

• Should Local Government Be Run Like Silicon Valley?
• Mar 29, 2013
• Cities are contracting with Code for America -- what some call “the Peace Corps for geeks” -- in an effort to seed Silicon Valley virtues in local government.
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• The Power and Danger of Setting Extreme Goals
• Feb 28, 2013
• Extreme goals are ambitious and attention grabbing. They also often seem impossible -- and that can be a problem.
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• Milwaukee Police Give 911 a Facelift
• Sep 28, 2012
• Milwaukee has overhauled how it responds to serious crimes -- but not without criticism. Are the risks of challenging policing's status quo worth the rewards?
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• Cathy Lanier Changes Policing in D.C. and Maybe Nation
• Jun 29, 2012
• The police chief's rejection of zero-tolerance policing that’s driven urban crime fighting for a generation may change the future of public safety in America.
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• Neighborhood Watch
• Jun 26, 2012
• Rob Sampson’s Great American City points the way toward a new understanding of how cities function.
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• Can Universal Health Care Work Without a Mandate?
• May 31, 2012
• President Barack Obama and the 26 states trying to overturn his federal health reform law say no, but some states have some real-world experience that could answer that question.

• Kitzhaber: Three-Time Governor Turning Oregon’s Tide
• Apr 30, 2012
• John Kitzhaber once called Oregon “ungovernable.” Now, he’s forging bipartisan alliances that are making it one of the best-governed states in the nation.
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• Ex-Police Chief William Bratton Discusses Government Collaboration in New Book
• Mar 30, 2012
• In Collaborate or Perish!, William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School senior researcher Zachary Tumin tell governments how they can work together more often and more effectively.
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• Connecticut Moves Away from Medicaid Managed Care
• Feb 28, 2012
• Connecticut’s Rod Bremby is finding novel ways to connect health and human services.
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• How Game Theory is Reinventing Crime Fighting
• Jan 31, 2012
• Elected officials across the nation from both political parties have begun to examine ways to replace a tough corrections policy with a smart one.
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• Managing Care without Managed Care
• Jan 24, 2012
• North Carolina is achieving big savings with a very different approach.

• A Doctor's Fix for Health-Care Delivery
• Jan 3, 2012
• Commonwealth Care Alliance CEO Bob Master has a plan to change health-care delivery — and it doesn’t involve Medicaid managed care.
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• Legislative Issues to Watch in 2012
• Dec 30, 2011
• These nine topics will shape debate in state legislatures in 2012.
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• Red States, Green Jobs
• Nov 30, 2011
• The South has more green jobs than any other region. But will politicians keep investing in something many Southern voters don’t believe in?
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• Thinking Through Health Exchanges
• Nov 29, 2011
• TennCare Director Darin Gordon has distinguished himself by asking hard questions about the impact of the Affordable Care Act.