• For Whom the Road Tolls
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   July 28, 2011
• Highway gridlock is just getting worse. Technology offers one way to find money for transportation improvements that are desperately needed.
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• Better Ways to Cut Spending
• Posted By: |   July 27, 2011
• Across-the-board cutting just protects the worst spending. Here are seven ways to create more value for less money.
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• Municipal Outsourcing: Do's and Don'ts
• Posted By: Joshua Archambault, Stephen Lisauskas |   July 25, 2011
• Contracting out is not an all-purpose solution, but, done right, it can help deliver better services for less money.
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• Supercharging Structural Innovation
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   July 20, 2011
• Can dedicated teams deliver new solutions? A new grant program will test the concept in five cities.
• Categories: Better, Faster, Cheaper ,  Innovation by Design
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• How a Texas Coalition is Supercharging Adoptions
• Posted By: |   July 20, 2011
• A novel collaboration effort is paying off, getting more children into homes while saving money.
• Categories: Better, Faster, Cheaper

• The Pension-Reform Imperative
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   July 19, 2011
• Overhauling public-sector retirement funds for sustainability is a political swamp. But failing to act now would be catastrophic.
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• A Path to Hometown Environmental Sustainability
• Posted By: Jonathan D. Breul, John M. Kamensky |   July 18, 2011
• Some local governments are moving boldly ahead with sustainability initiatives that link to broader community goals.
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• Needed: Better Benchmarks for Convention Investments
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   July 14, 2011
• Realistic convention-center performance measures would help public officials see the market more clearly as they make decisions about expansion proposals.
• Categories: Management and HR
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• Getting Out in Front of Deficit Reduction
• Posted By: |   July 13, 2011
• Rather than waiting for Washington to decide what hits state and local governments will take to reduce the federal deficit, they should be part of the process.
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• Growing Network: Fresh Food Financing Initiative
• Posted By: Dwight Evans, John Weidman |   July 11, 2011
• Innovators can engage with relevant stakeholders and resources in new ways to create a good greater than any individual actor could create on its own.
• Categories: Innovation by Design