Features

• Growth & Taxes
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

• Why outdated state tax systems undercut economic vitality, and what states can do about it.

• Breathing Room
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

• States that give localities greater leeway to raise revenue help create robust partners for investing in the future.

• Baiting Hooks
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

• Tax incentives will always be with us, but states are finally keeping tabs on what they're getting for their money.

• Staying Stable
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

• Volatile revenue streams and unpredictable taxes bring misery to everyone from state budgeters to businesses.

• Plugging Leaks
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

• A tax policy is only as good as the systems that collect the taxes and make it simple for people to pay them.

• The Man Who Owns Flint
• By: Christopher Swope

• Michigan's most depressed auto town is full of vacant buildings. One local official has made their redevelopment his personal crusade.

• Private Instigator
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is the foremost advocate of privatizing -- even at his political peril.

• Delete at Your Own Risk
• By: Ellen Perlman

• Governments need a system for managing their mountains of e-mail. Very few have one.

• Issues to Watch 2008
• By: Josh Goodman

• In 2008, state legislatures will try to fix everything that went wrong in 2007.

• Immigration Fizzle
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• It's easy to launch an argument against illegal immigrants.
  It's tougher to win it at the polls.

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• The Meeting Morass
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
• There are way too many of them, they take too long and don't accomplish much. Can meetings be fixed?

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• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

• The Hidden Tax
• By: John E. Petersen
• When the collection of revenue is too convenient, it can lead to consequences that may or may not be intended.

• Subprime Performance
• By: Jonathan Walters
• It's not that someone was asleep at the switch on mortgage lending. It's that everyone was.

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