December 2007 | Table of Contents
Features
- Healthy Handouts
- Borrowing a page from private health insurers, state Medicaid programs are testing the wellness waters.
- Tougher than Wall Street
- Jon Corzine worked miracles at Goldman Sachs. Doing it in Trenton is a different story.
- The Big Benefit Base
- A recent survey finds that state and local employees have certain compensatory advantages.
- Local Warming
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It's too late to stop climate change. What we can do is plan for it.
- Digital-Age Digs
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As public interest in cultural heritage grows, archaeologists are using both traditional and high-tech tools to discover the past.
- In the Green
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When it comes to housing, affordable and sustainable can go together.
Up Front
- Evening Star
- Steve Beshear once hoped to be Kentucky's wonder-boy governor. Now, he's coming in as an elder statesman.
- Zoned Out
- D.C.'s cab system will soon cease to be an irrational anomaly. Not everyone approves of that change.
- The Wrong Message
- Governments shouldn't consider it inevitable that they will get bad press.
- Defined Confusion
- Cutting pensions saves states money, right? Maybe eventually.
- Cut a Tax, or Kill it?
- Los Angeles faces a tricky revenue decision.
- No Political Traction
- Federalism isn't irrelevant to the 2008 presidential campaign. It's just that no candidate is framing ways for the feds to deal with the big issues.
- The Streetcar Surge
- Streetcars, popular again in a growing number of cities, have the potential to be a vital part of urban transportation systems.
The Business of Government
- Crazy Cool in L.A
- A fire department taps into microblogging to keep itself on top of situations.
- Buyouts in the Balance
- The elusive savings of retirement incentives
- Boarding Calls
- Airports are catering to busy travelers and their animals with kennels fit for Fideaux.
- Power Puffs
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Wind-swept communities will be in for fights as large-scale wind power development spreads to new regions.
- The New Industrial Age
- Cities on the cutting edge of the new economy are taking steps to retain their stock of industrial land.
- Colorado Consolidates
- The governor moves to streamline the state's IT systems.
Events & Webinars
- High-Performance Government - Building "Better, Faster, Cheaper"
- June 20, 2013
- Nationally, six straight years of revenue declines have put enormous pressure on state and local governments, nevertheless, some are thriving. Standard & Poor's, the credit-rating agency, reports that it issued more bond upgrades than downgrades in 2012.
- Health Care Reform is Here: Are You Ready for the Rush?
- June 27, 2013
- The Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act are in full swing. With the influx of people who will be applying for benefits and the ACA requirement for online enrollment, it is more important than ever to verify the identities of those accessing benefits up front.
Training Opportunities
Health Care Reform After the Decision- In this Mercer Report, you’ll learn how different organizations plan to tackle the new requirements of ACA and discover where most employer concerns are focused, who expects to be hardest hit, and how different health plans and Medicaid may impact overall costs.
- Crime Prediction and Prevention
- Accelerating Economic Growth and Vitality
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