• Bidding Boards Goodbye
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   August 2009
• Boards and commissions can be expensive--whether or not they meet.

• Performance Rules
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   July 2009
• Managing for results is making a bigger difference during this downturn.

• Who Should Fix the Potholes?
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   June 2009
• Sometimes it saves money to outsource government work. But don't assume that.
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• No Time for Budget Busting
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   May 1, 2009
• Stimulus or no stimulus, cost overruns are as dangerous as ever.

• The Vacancy Game
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   April 1, 2009
• An odd route to budgeting flexibility comes from banking unfilled job slots.
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• Coming Together, Breaking Apart
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   March 1, 2009
• To consolidate or not to consolidate: a puzzling question.

• The Lure of the Layoff
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   January 1, 2009
• There are plenty of costly mistakes to make when you try to balance a budget through personnel freezes, cuts or early retirements.

• The Sweet Spot in Sour Times
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   November 1, 2008
• When times are tough, politicians and managers have the cover to make hard choices.

• Executioner's Song
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   September 1, 2008
• There is a lot of fanfare when a new program is signed into law. But then, it disappears from sight. Why is that?

• Assessing a Hot Button
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   July 1, 2008
• Some of the problems with property taxes could be solved on the management end.

• Letting It All Hang Out
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   May 1, 2008
• The latest political buzzword is transparency. But it may not be the cure-all it's cracked up to be.

• Learning from Losers
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   March 1, 2008
• Best practices are all well and good. We make a case for a center to study the worst.

• The Meeting Morass
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   January 1, 2008
• There are way too many of them, they take too long and don't accomplish much. Can meetings be fixed?

• The Future Is Now
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   November 1, 2007
• It's one thing to attract young people to government jobs. It's another to keep them there.

• An Accidental Outcome
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   September 1, 2007
• When officials act quickly to solve a problem, they may fail to look at the long-term effects -- and those can create new complications.

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