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• The Cost-Benefit Imperative
• Management Insights | February 1, 2012
• A group of states is adapting a successful model to target scarce funds for the greatest return on investment.

• 'Constraints Management' Breaks Down Barriers to Efficiency
• Smart Management | January 31, 2012
• Government efficiency initiatives come and go. But Utah has had continued success with one in particular.

• Government Cloud Computing May Sustain Public Records
• Dispatch | January 31, 2012
• The fate of Data.gov, which housed hundreds of thousands of public data when its funding got cut, may contain the outlines of a model for sustaining digital records.

• The Plastic Bag Ban: A Battle of Socio-Economic Policy
• Potomac Chronicle | January 31, 2012
• This latest skirmish shows how localities, not the feds, are driving eco-policy.

• Why Does Our Infrastructure Resemble a Third World Country’s?
• Economic Engines | January 31, 2012
• One explanation may be our budgeting process.

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• Why Does Our Infrastructure Resemble a Third World Country’s?
  
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• The Public Sector, Disrupted
  
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• Cities Extract Energy from Everyday Activities
  
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