Features

• Guide To Wireless Security: Wi-Fi Anxiety
• By: Christopher Swope
• Lock up your laptops. Secure your airwaves. In the wide-open world of wireless, it isn't easy to keep out intruders.

• Catch-22 For College Savings
• By: Christopher Swope

• Squeezing The Federal Turnip
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• This isn't the easiest time for localities to get money out of Washington. But they aren't about to quit asking.

• Gaming The Budget
• By: Ellen Perlman
• In the midst of a fiscal crisis, many states are betting on the legalization or expansion of gambling to boost their revenues.

• Do You Believe In Ferries?
• By: Anya Sostek
• Commuting by water was all but dead a decade ago. Highway gridlock has brought it back to life.

• Dry Spell
• By: Christopher Conte
• Places can't stop drought from coming their way, but they can control its devastating effects.

Up Front

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• By: Christopher Conte

• Pray For Peace
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Combative and unpredictable, Steve Peace isn't your typical state budget director. But a $35 billion shortfall isn't your typical state budget problem.

• Birds of A Feather
• By: Otis White

• The Consolidated Divide
• By: Alan Ehrenhalt

The Business of Government

• Don't Bug Me
• By: Ellen Perlman
• Protecting network systems against virus attacks takes good management--and a little bit of luck.

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• By: Ellen Perlman

• A New Light On Energy Audits
• By: Ellen Perlman

• Coming To Terms
• By: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
• Fuzzy language is a big impediment to good management--and to understanding the way government really works.

• The Universal Cause
• By: Penelope Lemov
• Several health insurance companies have stepped up to say they intend to promote universal health care coverage.

• Money Trail
• By: Alan Greenblatt
• Public interest in the Lewis and Clark bicentennial should benefit tourism in many states.

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• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Off The Wall
• By: Christopher Swope

• Casting Aspersions By Ballot
• By: Alan Greenblatt

• The Deficit Diet
• By: Ellen Perlman

• Death And Taxes
• By: John E. Petersen
• The demise of the federal estate tax will take with it billions in state revenue--unless states distance themselves from the feds.

• A Powerful California Commision Survives A Demise
• By: Alan Greenblatt

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• By: Alan Greenblatt

• Roswell's Image Takes Flight
• By: Ellen Perlman

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