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• Community Health and the Competition for Jobs
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   December 10, 2012
• Community health is about more than quality of life. Increasingly, companies are basing their location decisions on the availability of a healthy workforce.
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• Barking Dogs and the Potluck Model of Government
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   December 6, 2012
• A city in California is working to move beyond the customer-service approach to government and engage citizens as problem-solvers.
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• Houston's Mayor and the Imperative to Compete
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   December 3, 2012
• For Annise Parker, competing globally is about a lot more than delivering services efficiently.
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• The Need for Data with Meaning
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   November 29, 2012
• Community-indicator projects are popping up all over. They are serving an important function for regions that must compete on a global scale.
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• The Real Story of Public Pensions
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   November 19, 2012
• An important new book provides insights far beyond the conventional wisdom and the political arguments.
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• A Crucial Player in Effective Governance
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   November 15, 2012
• To see how much impact an auditor can have in improving the way government is run, look no further than California's Elaine Howle.
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• You Won the Election. Now Go Meet Your Auditor.
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   November 8, 2012
• Auditors can flush out government's fat rabbits and lurking demons. But they can do a lot more than that: They can help you govern effectively.
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• What the Schools Can Learn from the Cops
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   November 5, 2012
• The way law enforcement has been transformed points the way to fixing out broken public-education system.
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• When the Press Asks Uncomfortable Questions
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   November 1, 2012
• Public officials should pay attention, as a town in Missouri learned the hard way. If an economic-development deal seems too good to be true, maybe it is.
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• The Very Plugged-In Mayor of Long Beach
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   October 29, 2012
• Bob Foster is a former energy-company president, but expertise in that subject isn't the only thing he brings to his city.
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