Mayor in the Middle

Call it the six stages of GASB 45: anger, denial, sorrow, acceptance, study and action. That's been the general response to a new set of governmental... BY Jonathan Walters

This is not your father's procurement process. When Virginia wants to overhaul its aging IT infrastructure, its information technology officials don't gather together to make... BY Ellen Perlman

On a rainy day last June, local officials in Washington, D.C., gathered under tents erected on a public plaza to be tested for HIV.... BY Zach Patton

There's a new and higher level of strain in the already-tense relationship between GASB and state and local officials. BY Penelope Lemov

Insurance companies see a potential Katrina almost everywhere they look. And they want homeowners to pay in advance. BY Christopher Swope

New Jersey's ill-fated pension reform plan is history. As 2006 drew to a close, the governor and legislature, hoping to pay for property-tax reduction through pension plan reforms, failed to come to an agreement--much to the relief of thousands of state workers, unionized and otherwise, who marched on Trenton to make known their concerns about benefit adjustments. BY Girard Miller