Features

• The Corruption Puzzle
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Is graft getting worse or are prosecutors out of control?

• Atlanta and the Urban Future
• By: Rob Gurwitt

• A major American city has undergone big demographic changes overnight. Will others follow?

• The Buzz about 311
• By: Ellen Perlman

• Cities and counties want to take the next step in call-center services, but neither their pocketbooks nor their partners are ready to regionalize.

• Leaping into Light Rail
• By: Zach Patton

• Cities in the South and West are writing a new chapter in the history of transit -- and in the stories of themselves.

• Venture Governmentalist
• By: Will Wilson

• Aneesh Chopra brings a high-risk, high-reward style of tech investment to Virginia.

Up Front

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• By: Will Wilson

• Real ID and Reality
• By: Jonathan Walters
• States can fume about the federal identification law -- or they can find ways to cope with it.

The Business of Government

• Bond Bliss
• By: John E. Petersen
• The U.S. Supreme Court expresses its fondness for muni bonds and accepts the way things are.

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• Assessing a Hot Button
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
• Some of the problems with property taxes could be solved on the management end.

Training Opportunities

• Accelerating Economic Growth and Vitality
• This white paper describes how developing competencies in five key area can help public safety agencies more effectively do their jobs in the face of extremely important and difficult sets of issues.
• Crime Prediction and Prevention


• FutureStructure: A New Framework