Features

• Obama and the Cities
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• The new president has a whole new notion of urban policy.

• Digging for Dollars
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• When it comes to stimulus money for new projects, fortune favors the prepared city.

• Road to Katrinaville
• By: Christopher Swope

• Sturdy post-disaster cottages can work as permanent housing. But they're not always welcome.

• The Second Best Job in the State
• By: Josh Goodman

• Attorneys general are on a roll these days. Some are becoming governors; some are overshadowing their governors.

• A Matter of Record(s)
• By: John Buntin

• Sure, turning patients' folders into electronic files will bring efficiencies to health care. But it's what you do with the digital data that really counts.

• Grounded
• By: Zach Patton

• Times are tough at small airports.

Departments

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• By: Zach Patton

Politics + Policy

• Tanks for the Memories
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Gasoline taxes are one last inefficient relic of 1950s car culture.

• Wild West Budgeting
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• When money is tight in Arizona, anything goes.

• Just Say No. Then Shut Up.
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Republicans get tough on tax renegades.

• After the Stimulus Ends
• By: Donald F. Kettl
• States and localities face problems a rising economy won't solve.

• Uneven Stimulus
• By: Josh Goodman

• Electric Aloha
• By: Tom Arrandale

• The new Hawaiian hot rod will run on rechargeable batteries.

• The Semi-Fast Track
• By: Alex Marshall
• The stimulus will help roads and transit. It's no panacea.

• A Gentler Jackhammer
• By: Christopher Swope

Problem Solver

• The Pain of Cutting Payroll
• By: Will Wilson

• There are many ways to reduce personnel costs -- but no easy ones.

• The Vacancy Game
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
• An odd route to budgeting flexibility comes from banking unfilled job slots.

• O Citizen, Where Art Thou?
• By: Jonathan Walters

• Getting public input into the budget-writing process sounds easier than it is.

• Powering Their Way Up
• By: Ellen Perlman
• CIOs pushed to become cabinet-level appointees -- but it doesn't always work out.

• To Build a Solid Benefit
• By: Girard Miller
• How to ensure that retiree health coverage is ample, available and affordable.

Training Opportunities

• Accelerating Economic Growth and Vitality
• This white paper describes how developing competencies in five key area can help public safety agencies more effectively do their jobs in the face of extremely important and difficult sets of issues.
• Crime Prediction and Prevention


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