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• The Tools We Need to Help Poor Neighborhoods
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   March 11, 2013
• 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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• Giving Citizens Numbers They Can Understand
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   February 25, 2013
• 'Citizen-centric' financial reporting is a way for governments to improve transparency and accountability. It isn't hard, so why aren't more jurisdictions doing it?
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• Municipal Securities and the Waiting Game
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   February 21, 2013
• Federal law gives the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board the authority to protect issuers, but it can't do that job until the SEC gives it a tool it needs.
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• Our Ebbing Urge to Incarcerate
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   February 7, 2013
• California seems to be finding a way out of its prison-overcrowding problems. Have we decided that locking up so many people isn't the best way to keep the public safe?
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• The Emerging Power of China's Auditors
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   January 31, 2013
• Cracking down on corruption is critical to China's growth.
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• The Real Role of Cities
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   January 31, 2013
• As one thoughtful city manager see it, in our focus on service delivery we're lost sight of a fundamental purpose of government.
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• Can You Run a Government on $9.90 an Hour?
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   January 28, 2013
• There are signs that the pendulum is swinging away from the anti-public-employee rhetoric of recent years. That's good for governments and for the people they serve.
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• Bringing a 'Green Tint' to Sacramento
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   January 23, 2013
• Mayor Kevin Johnson has big ideas for California's capital. Will the drive that made him an NBA star serve him as he tries to remake his city?
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