Smart Management
- Fixing a Sagging Wage Floor
- A surprising number of Republicans are joining with liberals to enact new state minimum wage laws.
- Loving a Loser
- Award-winning programs usually spawn copycats, but there may be good ideas to replicate from innovative projects that falter.
- Sacredness in the City
- There are three basic elements to a superior urban experience, declares Author Joel Kotkin: economic power, personal security and sacredness.
- Cashing Out
- Our household is just like a state: good at forecasting revenue, but when it comes to expenditures, things get dicier.
- Clockwork Blues
- It can be a nuisance changing every clock in your house twice a year. But Daylight Savings Time is not a subject of public controversy-- except in Indiana.
- States' Not-So-Dire Straits
- This is a season of lamentation for believers in the American federal system, or at least for those who believe state governments ought to occupy a position of honor and respect within it. States and their advocates complain that they are being bullied and pushed around by every branch of government in Washington: preempted, mandated, zeroed out, lectured to and generally dissed.
- A Balancing Act
- Contracting out services can benefit the bottom line, but not always. The trick is to figure out when it does and doesn't.
- Loyalty Everlasting
- Decades ago, on a long car ride home from college, a friend of mine and I were talking about whether the liberal arts education we were getting had any practical use. He said he thought his might. He was majoring in medieval history, and in the event of a new Dark Age-- post-nuclear chaos or the aftermath of a huge natural catastrophe--he would know exactly what to do.
- A Little Less Input, Please
- Gathering all the public input you can may sound like a good idea, but it's often more of a pain than a panacea.
- A Mental Case
- Even as doubts grow about using performance data in budgeting, mental health agencies provide fresh evidence of the benefits.
- Checking Out Reality
- One of the easiest ways to balance a budget is simply to predict savings that may or may not ever come to pass.
- Forward Pass
- It's important to understand that five-year forecasts are going to be wrong, but it's good to do them anyway.
- Applauding a Performance
- A new report can help agency officials and lawmakers use performance measures more effectively.
- When Less Is Not More
- Some agencies don't gather data that could help them manage better-- because it might make them look bad.
- Going for the Goal
- Applying the principles of managing for results to running a child's soccer team leads to some unexpected outcomes.
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Events & Webinars
- High-Performance Government - Building "Better, Faster, Cheaper"
- June 20, 2013
- Nationally, six straight years of revenue declines have put enormous pressure on state and local governments, nevertheless, some are thriving. Standard & Poor's, the credit-rating agency, reports that it issued more bond upgrades than downgrades in 2012.
- Health Care Reform is Here: Are You Ready for the Rush?
- June 27, 2013
- The Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act are in full swing. With the influx of people who will be applying for benefits and the ACA requirement for online enrollment, it is more important than ever to verify the identities of those accessing benefits up front.
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