January 2006 | Table of Contents
Features
- The Truth About Term Limits
- Term limit laws have created some clear winners and losers. Among the losers are the legislatures themselves.
- Buy By Data
- States that can apply "strategic sourcing" to their purchasing operations stand to save millions of dollars.
- A Looser Lockup
- Get-tough programs for juvenile offenders have largely failed to reduce recidivism. Missouri has had success with a less punitive approach.
- An Unusual Outsourcing
- Virginia partners for technology overhaul.
- Deficit Discipline
- Elected Leaders Refocus on Results
- The Code War
- As governments move toward uniform building codes, they are being lobbied by two rival groups that offer competing sets of standards.
Up Front
- Stressed Responders
- Federal disaster money doesn't help much unless governments get together on how to use it.
- Medical Experiment
- Should doctors run EMS programs? Louisville thought so--that's how Neal Richmond got there.
- When to Say When
- Why some public officials in trouble don't step down
- Merit In the Classroom
- Good teachers doing tough jobs are closer to a bonus.
- If You Build It...
- Cities hope big arts venues will wow visitors.
- The Fellow Behind the Tree
- A business-dominated commission may help Texas out of its school funding mess.
- Chips Fall In North Carolina
- The nation's newest lottery may be more of a gamble than anybody thought.
- Uniquely Unicameral
- Nebraska's single-house legislative body is unlike any that has existed in any state before or since.
The Business of Government
- Opening Up Gridlock
- Voters put their money where the pain is.
- Child Proofing
- Georgia Automates Its Family Services System
- A Simple Solution
- Success can depend as much on tweaking the way people use tools as on what those tools are.
- Gaming the Numbers
- Many of the statistics policy makers use today are set in concrete but made of quicksand.
- Talk of the Town
- It's time to walk people through the choices they have to make in order to get health care that works for everyone.
- Median as Marketplace
- Increasingly, local governments are limiting or banning solicitations along public rights-of-way.
- Hedging Bets
- With slow growth from traditional investments, pension fund managers are tempted by the snappy returns of alternatives.
- Meters Matter
- Water limits finally set by a holdout city
- Gassing Up in Minnesota
- A state ups the ante on alternative fuels.
- Mining the Future
- South Dakota's Underground Plan
- Kansas City Goes Global
- Local growth comes from ties to Canada and Mexico
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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