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• What's Really Needed to Save Detroit: Democracy
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   7 Days Ago
• Certainly spending must be cut and services must be restored, but it's essential that the voices of the loyal Detroiters who have stayed be heard.
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• How to Insult Government Workers
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   10 Days Ago
• There are lots of problems with pay for performance, but one of the most salient is that it implies that employees are slackers.
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• How Four Students Solved a Difficult Mental-Health Service Problem
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   11 Days Ago
• The winners of this year's National Public Policy Challenge had a guiding principle: Think big, start small.
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• Cities and the Competition for Energy Efficiency
• Posted By: Bob Graves |   14 Days Ago
• Excellent tools are available to monitor energy use across a community. Isn't it time for cities to be benchmarked against each other?
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• Good Ideas, Youthful Enthusiasm and the Challenges of Public Policy
• Posted By: William H. "Bill" Leighty |   14 Days Ago
• When teams of talented university students take on difficult contemporary issues, impressive things happen.
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• A Transplant from Queens in the Heart of the Confederacy
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   18 Days Ago
• Stephen Benjamin, the mayor of Columbia, S.C., has ambitious goals for his city. He's off to a strong start.
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• The Tools We Need to Help Poor Neighborhoods
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   28 Days Ago
• The Community Reinvestment Act doesn't always get at underlying economic issues. It's time to redesign it.
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• A Transportation Funding Power Shift
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   February 28, 2013
• States are moving into the void left by Washington’s paralysis.
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• A Small-Town Mayor in the National Arena
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   February 28, 2013
• Clarence Anthony, the National League of Cities' new executive director, wants the NLC to be a strike force for cities at a time when our federal system is undergoing profound changes.
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