April 2005 | Table of Contents
Features
- Tap Dance
- Tricky balancing can be required to remove lead from drinking water while also meeting other water-quality mandates.
- Brave New Telecom World
- Internet telephone communication is an exciting new prospect. Unless it's your job to regulate it.
- Pride of Place
- Fred Kent has spent three decades developing a common-sense approach to streets, buildings and human sociability.
- A Suprising Uprising
- Big cities have revived and upgraded recycling programs.
- Contract Lens
- As states continue to outsource corrections services, they are struggling to find the right level of private-prison scrutiny.
- Courting Cuba
- States have been wooing trade with Havana, but politics may put an end to it.
Up Front
- Looking For a Real Crisis: Try Medicaid
- Social Security may be running out of money, but at least it's a single coherent program. Medicaid is a monster with countless heads.
- Special Assignment
- Chicago's procurement process has been broken for years. Mary A. Dempsey has been given a mandate to repair it.
- Rhode Island and Reform: Still an Oxymoron?
- Legislators balk at giving up power.
- The Urge to Merge: Still Waiting For a Surge
- Consolidating local governments is as difficult a political task as it ever was.
- Who Won? Sometime's There's No Real Answer
- In the closest elections, there are issues impossible to resolve.
- Term Limits Aren't Working
- Does that bother anybody? Not the voters, at least so far.
- 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.
The Business of Government
- Helping the Homeless
- San Diego tackles a drinking problem.
- Boarding the Rx Express
- States are honing their approaches to lowering drug costs.
- States Probe a Kickback Scam
- Title insurance is focus of investigation
- Diesel in Distress
- The workhorses of our economic life are churning out an exhaust that sickens and kills people.
- Pushback Time
- Economic development officials may be going too far and being too secretive in their deal making.
Events & Webinars
- It’s A Paperless, Paperless World..... Thinking Outside the Box to Gain Efficiencies through Prepaid Cards
- April 23, 2013
- Public sector organizations are under intense scrutiny to operate as efficiently and effectively as possible and with maximum transparency. An important consideration is the way in which payments are made and managed. Prepaid cards can offer flexibility, security and accountability to governments as a method of dispersing benefits, healthcare and social care payments, child benefits and housing benefits to their constituents.
- GOVERNING - Michigan Leadership Forum 2013
- May 1, 2013
Training Opportunities
Outsmarting the Social Services Fraudster- Learn how IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight helps social services organizations reduce time and labor for caseload management, comply with new regulations fast and cost-efficiently and identify fraudulent behavior rapidly to stop it before it occurs.
- A Safer Public Through Advanced Analytics
- Accelerating Economic Growth and Vitality
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