September 2007 | Table of Contents
Features
- Tough Times For Locals
- Florida lawmakers make deep cuts in the property tax and leave it to voters to OK even deeper cuts.
- eHealth confidential
- Can health information exchange systems keep snoops out of patients' online records?
- Teaching Past the Test
- Schools are leveraging data collected for No Child Left Behind to improve individual student performance.
- Higher Purpose
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America produces the world's best universities, but not enough graduates. Can states fix higher ed?
- The Struggle to Streamline
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States are trying to make social and health services intake and screening more efficient. Outsourcing may not be the answer.
- Confluence of Interest
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Thousands of citizen-led organizations are working to improve water quality across political boundaries.
Up Front
- Brinkshman
- As Chicago's transit chief, Ron Huberman is playing some dangerous games. He may not have much choice
- Nothing but a Street
- For some functions of government, two Texarkanas may be one too many.
- Suburban Strains
- In many legislatures, suburbs have the votes to prevail--if they can find a way to work together.
- Rod Reeling
- Bashing the legislature is one way to get elected governor. It's a lousy way to govern.
- A Regional Mess
- Cooperation can end in corruption. Iowa learned that the hard way.
- Electric Exuberance
- A commuter-train experiment in California may have big implications
- Health Court Advantage
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The current system of blame and lawsuits is no way to deal with medical errors.
- Privatizers' Predicament
- States face a Congress increasingly hostile to outsourcing.
The Business of Government
- The Elusive Long-Timer
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The turnover in top state technology jobs is higher than that of Starbucks store managers.
- Sense of a Slowdown
- To catch a speeder, Arizona tunes up state highways.
- An Accidental Outcome
- When officials act quickly to solve a problem, they may fail to look at the long-term effects -- and those can create new complications.
- Tax and Abuse
- In Virginia, an abhorrence of raising state taxes has run smack into crippling traffic congestion.
- The Big Spill
- When trucks lose their loads, cleaning up gets creative.
- A Twin City Tradeoff
- Minneapolis sees a triple play in the sale of its parking lots.
- Leadership's Challenge
- It's turf, not technology.
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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