January 2008 | Table of Contents
Features
- Growth & Taxes
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Why outdated state tax systems undercut economic vitality, and what states can do about it.
- Breathing Room
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States that give localities greater leeway to raise revenue help create robust partners for investing in the future.
- Baiting Hooks
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Tax incentives will always be with us, but states are finally keeping tabs on what they're getting for their money.
- Staying Stable
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Volatile revenue streams and unpredictable taxes bring misery to everyone from state budgeters to businesses.
- Plugging Leaks
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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
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Michigan's most depressed auto town is full of vacant buildings. One local official has made their redevelopment his personal crusade.
- Private Instigator
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Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is the foremost advocate of privatizing -- even at his political peril.
- Delete at Your Own Risk
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Governments need a system for managing their mountains of e-mail. Very few have one.
- Issues to Watch 2008
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In 2008, state legislatures will try to fix everything that went wrong in 2007.
- Immigration Fizzle
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It's easy to launch an argument against illegal immigrants.
It's tougher to win it at the polls.
Columns
- The Meeting Morass
- There are way too many of them, they take too long and don't accomplish much. Can meetings be fixed?
- The Hidden Tax
- When the collection of revenue is too convenient, it can lead to consequences that may or may not be intended.
- Subprime Performance
- It's not that someone was asleep at the switch on mortgage lending. It's that everyone was.
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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