FEATURES

• The Value of Movie Tax Incentives
• By: Zach Patton
• States spend billions on incentives to lure film productions away from Hollywood. Some say it's gone too far.

• Build America Bonds Make a Mark
• By: John E. Petersen
• The new Build America Bonds are having an outsized impact on the way states and localities raise money to build and fix infrastructure.

• The Rise of Attorneys General
• By: Josh Goodman
• With a Democrat in the White House, conservative state attorneys general are mobilizing against federal power.

• Is IT Outsourcing Still In?
• By: Chad Vander Veen
• High-profile problems and emerging technologies are changing attitudes about the would-be savior of enterprise IT.

• A Medicaid Fraud-Stopping Model
• By: John Buntin
• Five years ago, New York state was burned by revelations of pervasive Medicaid fraud. Now the Empire State is showing other states how scams can be stopped.

DEPARTMENTS

• Revolving Around the Sun
• By: Paul W. Taylor
• A new model of how transparency works changes the view of open government.

POLITICS + POLICY

• Leading the Census-Participation Pack
• By: Josh Goodman
• Livonia, Mich., had the highest census participation rate not because of what it did – but because of what it is.

• Sacramento's Net Gain?
• By: Josh Goodman
• Ex NBA-player Mayor Kevin Johnson has an unorthodox plan to build a new basketball arena.

• Immigration Fizzle
• By: Josh Goodman
• Arizona's new immigration law seems potent right now, but will it fizzle like Georgia's?

• Voting the Straight-Ticket Sweep
• By: Josh Goodman
• Will Republicans win big in states that make voting a straight ticket easy?

• What Really Matters in Health-Care Reform
• By: Donald F. Kettl
• Health-care politics continues to grab headlines, but what's important lies elsewhere.

• Paying for Lost Time
• By: Tina Trenkner
• What is the responsibility of states to innocent people wrongly convicted of a crime?

• Fixing the Doctor Deficit
• By: Jessica Mulholland
• Improving efficiencies can help, but cutbacks at state medical schools don't.

• Southern Inefficiency
• By: Elizabeth Daigneau
• With its growing population, the South must determine how to reduce energy consumption.

• Installing Citywide Fiber-Optic Networks
• By: Alex Marshall
• Don't wait to find out if Google will install broadband in your city.

• The Gentrification Effect
• By: Tod Newcombe
• Does the return of a neighborhood mean its culture and the poor have to leave?

PROBLEM SOLVER

• Computing Performance
• By: Jonathan Walters
• More governments are turning to technology to help them budget and manage for results.

• Telecommuting's Sluggish Adoption
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
• Working from home has been touted as the future, so why isn't it catching on faster?

• Funneling Tech Purchases
• By: Steve Towns
• Texas focuses on cross-agency operations and innovation opportunities – and saves money.

• Wanted: A Gold Standard for Pensions
• By: Girard Miller
• Public officials who run pension plans should update their rule books.

• LEED On
• By: John Buntin
• Ohio's school planning director embraces green schools.

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