May 2007 | Table of Contents
Features
- Lone Star Contract Less
- A privatization program unravels in its first year and raises questions about how it could go so far south so fast.
- Death From Washington
- Federal prosecutors are increasingly eager to invoke capital punishment--even in states that don't like it.
- Working Without Wires
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Municipal WiFi is coming. Government employees, not citizens, may be the biggest users.
- Bad Bugs
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Drug-resistant microbes are evolving into a public health problem too widespread to ignore.
- The Disability Dilemma
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Police officers and firefighters injured in the line of duty receive generous benefits. Can localities afford to keep paying for them?
- Fleet Dreams
- If tomorrow's cars won't be fueled by gas, what will run them and who'll pick the winner?
- Catching Up With Speed
- Two states are adjusting the way they deal with lead-footed drivers.
Up Front
- Property Dilemma
- Florida property taxes badly need reform. But it has to be sensible reform.
- New Clout In a Big County
- L.A. County supervisors have done something unusual--given up power voluntarily.
- Horrendous Honeymoon
- It's hard to imagine a worse start than the one Nevada's governor is off to.
- Greenhouse Shift
- By one vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has altered the politics of air pollution.
- Making a Splash
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When IT is outsourced, a CIO will do almost anything to meld public and private workforces.
- Watered-Down TEA
- This is supposed to be the era of enlightened federal transportation policy. Sometimes you have to wonder.
- King of Swing
- In an all-but-deadlocked Montana House, iconoclast Rick Jore holds the balance of power.
The Business of Government
- The Listening Post
- One of the toughest things for states or localities to do is get bona fide input from citizens on how they're doing.
- Medicaid's Breaking Point
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Fears that Medicaid could be the Pac Man that eats up state budgets may be more rhetoric than reality.
- Narrow-Minded
- Allowing skinny houses to be built on small lots can increase both density and affordability.
- Lassoing GASB 45
- Texas is leading a charge to get rid of the accounting rule that forces states and localities to tally the future costs of health benefits for retirees.
- A New Measure for Local Aid
- States may tie strings to their helping hand.
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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