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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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• Lincoln and the Dirty Business of Politics
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   January 16, 2013
• Appealing to rightness and reason is rarely enough to achieve big things. Politics requires dealing with human beings, and human beings are flawed.
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• Michelle Rhee, Education and the Inputs-Outcomes Trap
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   January 10, 2013
• Her rankings of states' education policies look at things from the wrong direction. It's a discussion we do need to have, but first we need to tone down the rhetoric.
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• The Political Future of a Browning America
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   January 7, 2013
• People of color now account for most of the country's population growth. That has profound implications for the way elections are won and the nation is governed.
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• Can a 'Millennial Mayor' Turn a Factory Town Around?
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   January 3, 2013
• Things are beginning to look up for Fitchburg, Mass., under Lisa Wong's leadership. It hasn't been easy.
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• A Fraudster's Nightmare Called 'Bubba'
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   December 20, 2012
• Tennessee's Arthur Hayes has had a major impact on the world of government auditing. Don't get him started on "gray areas."
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