March 2005 | Table of Contents
Features
- Barrier-Free IT
- Making state and local government Web sites accessible to people with disabilities is less a matter of dollars than sensitivity.
- A Rage to Reorganize
- Governors are bent on reshaping and updating the way their governments work.
- Rolling the Credits
- States are competing to lure filmmakers from Hollywood by offering hefty tax breaks. Are they giving away too much?
- Setting Limits on Medicaid
- From TennCare's end to Florida's proposed new beginning, state Medicaid programs are working through difficult times.
- The Fiscal Fast Lane
- When a county is growing like Topsy, its finance officers have to move even faster--just to keep up.
- Father Time
- There's a growing focus in welfare policy on a long-neglected part of the problem: fatherhood.
Up Front
- Good Deed, Punished
- A noble notion to limit state contractors from contributing to political campaigns put New Jersey crosswise with the feds.
- Fiscal Finagler
- Illinois politicians admire John Filan's ability to balance a budget. Not all of them admire his way of doing it.
The Business of Government
- Thinking Inside the Jury Box
- Courts are trying to make their proceedings less baffling and more bearable to jurors.
- Space Hogs
- SUVs Send Cities To the Redrawing Boards
- An Airport's Big Deal
- LAX reaches out to keep expansion problems at bay.
- The eTax Collector Cometh
- As states streamline their sales tax codes, they are moving ahead with the technology to make it easy for online businesses to collect the tax.
- CSI: Orange County
- Building a Better DNA Database
- A Balancing Act
- Contracting out services can benefit the bottom line, but not always. The trick is to figure out when it does and doesn't.
- Adjusting for Age
- A new accounting rule could seriously undermine the health insurance that states and localities provide to their retirees.
- Conventional Wisdom
- Conventional Wisdom
- Breaking a Bond
- Advanced refundings are on the line as the federal government sees revenue in cutting off some muni bond tax breaks.
- Byte Bait
- North Carolina Ponies Up for Computer Jobs
- Bay Property, Sleeps 6,000
- Real estate values may condemn San Quentin.
Events & Webinars
- High-Performance Government - Building "Better, Faster, Cheaper"
- June 20, 2013
- Nationally, six straight years of revenue declines have put enormous pressure on state and local governments, nevertheless, some are thriving. Standard & Poor's, the credit-rating agency, reports that it issued more bond upgrades than downgrades in 2012.
- Health Care Reform is Here: Are You Ready for the Rush?
- June 27, 2013
- The Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act are in full swing. With the influx of people who will be applying for benefits and the ACA requirement for online enrollment, it is more important than ever to verify the identities of those accessing benefits up front.
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
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