May 2005 | Table of Contents
Features
- Taxophobe Targets
- Breaking a promise not to raise taxes is a dicey thing to do. But lawmakers get away with it.
- Refugee Renewal
- Absorbing the displaced from overseas can be a tough urban task. But for a city in decline, it can be an unexpected opportunity.
- Law of the Land
- Voters' challenge to Oregon's stringent land use controls may signal a major shift in the property rights debate nationwide.
- High-Tech Hide-And-Seek
- A new sport called "geocaching" presents a challenge for park managers.
- Sticking it to the Cities
- Revenue losses add up in localities where hockey teams are supposed to play.
- The Erpworks
- Recoding the guts of an enterprise can bring a city or state to the brink of failure, fatigue and notoriety.
- The Fast Lane
- As gridlock gets worse and technology improves, the use of toll lanes and other market-based tools to regulate rush-hour driving is gaining acceptance.
Up Front
- Tired of Tin-Cup Politics
- A new group of urban leaders wants a strategy based on success, not on pleading for help.
- Growing Wild
- The D.C. area's boomingest county is about to start booming even more.
- Diamond in the Rough
- How a 600-page book became a must-read in rural Montana.
- Nothing Scandalous
- Wisconsin politics used to be squeaky clean. Now "jaded" would be a better word.
- Found Money
- State finances are looking better, but it's due more to luck than design.
- Sacredness in the City
- There are three basic elements to a superior urban experience, declares Author Joel Kotkin: economic power, personal security and sacredness.
The Business of Government
- Minnesota Stops Whining
- A new way to texturize roadways tempers highway noise.
- The Frequency Factor
- When children in school and books in libraries can be tracked by radio waves, privacy advocates get all upset.
- Wisconsin Fights the Feds
- The state is defying a moratorium on Internet access taxes.
- Finger Pointing
- A New Technology Targets Gun Sales
- Cashing Out
- Our household is just like a state: good at forecasting revenue, but when it comes to expenditures, things get dicier.
- Nexium's Start Turn
- As TV ads hype the demand for costly brand-name drugs, those who pay Medicaid's pill bill are fighting back.
- The Oldest State
- Gone are the comforts of an era when an ever-expanding economy coupled with growing populations could pay the future freight.
- Farm-Fed Fuels on the Rise
- Ethanol plants grow in the Midwest
- Setting Limits on Big Boxes
- Small towns try to zone out big stores.
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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