• Municipalities Challenge Census Numbers
• BY: Ryan Holeywell   |   August 31, 2011
• Dozens of cities and counties insist that not all their residents were counted. They may be fighting a losing battle.

• Building a City from Scratch
• BY: Charles Chieppo   |   August 11, 2011
• New municipalities are popping up around the country, rooted in dissatisfaction with traditional governments. The new cities are experimenting with new ways to deliver services efficiently.
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• Is a Four-Day Workweek Desirable?
• BY: Jessica Mulholland   |   August 2011
• Utah’s 2008 decision to shorten its workweek inspired many cities and states to consider the same, but few actually did.

• Measuring the Efficiency of Courts
• BY: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene   |   August 2011
• Municipalities in more than a dozen states are using tools to gauge their courts’ speed, accessibility and reliability in administering justice.
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• Urban Areas Defy Crime Trends
• BY: Tod Newcombe   |   August 2011
• Despite the recession, which usually spurs a rise in law-breaking, violent and property crimes have dropped for the fourth year in a row. How can this be?
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• China Looks West for Performance Management
• BY: Donald F. Kettl   |   August 2011
• China embraces performance management in an effort to wring out greater productivity and transparency.
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• A National Model for Curbing Childhood Obesity
• BY: Jessica Mulholland   |   July 2011
• A Massachusetts town's award-winning program that puts healthy choices at the heart of its planning efforts has been mirrored by others around the country.

• States Roll Back Early Voting, Enforce Voter ID Laws
• BY: Alan Greenblatt   |   June 2011
• Democrats complain that GOP legislators are seeking to disenfranchise vulnerable groups of voters. Republicans say they're merely protecting the sanctity of the ballot.
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• The Dark Side of Awards and Accountability
• BY: Ken Miller   |   June 2011
• Contributor Ken Miller draws from his latest book to explain how management-by-fear accountability systems rarely work and produce devastating side effects.
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• Drivers Battle with Bikers for Road Space
• BY: Tod Newcombe   |   June 2011
• When New York City replaced a car lane with a bike lane, it exposed the tricky problem of adding another form of transportation infrastructure to a city.
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• Do Smokers Have Privacy Rights?
• BY: Jessica Mulholland   |   May 2011
• An Ariz. county will begin testing its employees and offering health insurance discounts to nonsmokers. But is it right to find and penalize those who smoke?
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• Computing Performance
• BY: Jonathan Walters   |   June 2010
• More governments are turning to technology to help them budget and manage for results.
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• Using Performance to Deliver Promises
• BY: Jonathan Walters   |   March 1, 2010
• Call it the great intergovernmental camera caper. Although it might not have involved millions of dollars in spending, it did illustrate the sometimes absurd consequences...

• Performance Auditing: Beyond 'Gotcha!'
• BY: Jonathan Walters   |   October 31, 2009
• It's been about five years since Washington State Auditor Brian Sonntag announced the launch of his ambitious effort to bring a new style of performance...
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• Lean Legacy
• BY: Jonathan Walters   |   August 31, 2009
• The deal seemed too good to pass up or to ever undo: Iowa would create "charter agencies" and give them unprecedented freedom and flexibility to...
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