August 2005 | Table of Contents
Features
- Superfund Setbacks
- Damaged sites don't fade away. They just give local officials a planning headache.
- Plague of Errors
- Hospital infection rates are rising and killing 90,000 patients a year. Can the states put a stop to it?
- Double Booking
- A city and a university sharing a library? It's not easy, but San Jose is doing it.
- Stolen Identities
- States are leaping on the identity theft issue, hoping to reassure consumers. The data industry wants them to take it easy.
- How Dense Can You Get?
- Staten Island is the epicenter of the national debate over balancing the need for affordable housing with the desire to control development.
- Land Law
- A Supreme Court win for a Connecticut city could end up curbing some uses of eminent domain.
Up Front
- Vintage Conservatism
- The U.S. Supreme Court is about to turn right. Will that help states? Not necessarily.
- Motor Trouble
- Joel Silverman was asked to reform his state's vehicle license management. Not everyone wanted it reformed.
- Reward for Release
- States are opening ballot boxes to ex-felons.
- Tarnished Coin
- Can all the ethical problems of the Ohio GOP be laid at the governor's feet? Some Republicans hope so.
- A Billion Bucks a Mile
- Why Seattle is rethinking mass transit
- Inner-Ring Recovery
- Some close-in suburbs have found renewal strategies that work.
- Getting Smarter
- The smart-growth movement isn't making much noise these days, but it's learning how to win.
- Last Call for Taverns
- Chicago's mayor is encouraging citizens to exercise control over seedy bars in their neighborhoods.
The Business of Government
- The Mega-City Maker
- Interstates created mega regions, and mega regions will change how we see this country and its transportation needs.
- Block that Broadband
- Any city that tries to build its own high-speed Internet connections can expect a whole lot of pushback.
- Phantom of the Neighborhood
- Population explosions usually mean lots of new residents. But that's not always the case.
- Gone Fishing
- EPAs aren't keeping up with other agencies in using high-tech tools to detect dangers and deter misconduct.
- Blindsided & Bummed About It
- Here's a simple definition of business-friendly: Tell me what the rules are up front and then apply them fairly.
- Beyond Efficiency
- IT Takes On Health and Safety
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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