Stephen Goldsmith

Recent Articles

• An Old-School Mayor on the Forefront of Innovation
• Sep 6, 2012
• Boston's Tom Menino may be an "urban mechanic," but he's taking that concept to new and exciting levels.
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• The Bottom-Line Benefits of Greening a City
• Aug 27, 2012
• Value engineering can reduce the costs of capital projects. But it also can save money over the long haul.
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• Value Engineering: Saving Money While Enhancing Quality of Life
• Aug 22, 2012
• In dealing with its combined-sewer-overflow problem, Philly is demonstrating a better approach to big infrastructure projects.
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• Collecting What Government is Owed Efficiently -- and Equitably
• Jul 18, 2012
• Enforcing laws and regulations to collect fines isn’t just good for the bottom line. It’s fairer to honest citizens and businesses.
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• A Mayor’s Roadmap for Reforming Pensions
• Jul 16, 2012
• San Diego’s mayor explains how financial catastrophe provided the seeds for major structural changes that the city needed to continue providing services.

• How to Reform Pensions at the Ballot Box
• Jun 27, 2012
• San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed explains what led up to voters’ approval of major changes to the city’s retirement system.
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• Public Pensions and the Verdict of the Voters
• Jun 20, 2012
• What happened in San Diego and San Jose is likely to reverberate across the country. And it isn't all bad news for the public workforce.
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• Efficiency Lessons from Our City Halls and Statehouses
• May 16, 2012
• State and local governments are finding ways to cut spending while improving services. There are signs that the federal government is beginning to take notice.

• 311’s Coming Transformations
• Apr 18, 2012
• Much has been accomplished with the widespread deployment of these citizen-service systems. In the future, they will do much more.

• Supercharging Economic Development in Indianapolis and New York City
• Mar 21, 2012
• To attract the investment they need, cities need entities that can move both quickly and strategically.

• Government’s Underappreciated Resource
• Feb 22, 2012
• Citizen volunteers, properly deployed, can extend government’s reach quickly and effectively.

• The Man Who Put the 'M' in OMB
• Jan 18, 2012
• Roy Ash, former director of the Office of Management and Budget, is gone, but his legacy is a profound change in the way we manage our governments.
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• Out of Desperation, Innovation
• Dec 12, 2011
• Tough times create an appetite for change. Nowhere has that been more true than in government this year.
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• Proof That Government Can Work
• Nov 16, 2011
• There is no shortage of innovative programs that can go a long way towards maintaining public confidence in our public institutions.

• Creative Mayors and the Infrastructure Puzzle
• Oct 19, 2011
• As Washington argues about a federal approach to infrastructure, two Midwestern mayors are forging ahead with local solutions that focus strongly on economic development.
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