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Barrett and Greene

Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

Columnists

Barrett and Greene have done original research and writing in fields pertaining to state and local government and are columnists and correspondents for Governing magazine, where they founded the Government Performance Project. They are senior fellows at the Council of State Governments; special projects consultants for the Volcker Alliance; senior fellows at the Governing Institute; and fellows at the National Academy of Public Administration.

They have helped found and serve on the boards of two organizations: GovPerformance and the State Government Workforce Project. They have also served in an advisory capacity to many organizations, including the National League of Cities, the Urban Institute, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the Association of Government Accountants, the Council of State Governments, the Center for a Better South and others.

They often fall under the radar, but compacts are becoming a top tool for managing interstate issues.
John Hickenlooper hopes to recruit high-level talent for the next generation of public officials.
Whether it's prisons in Idaho or pensions in Michigan, several states are moving their outsourced services back in-house.
Qualified -- and willing -- applicants have become increasingly hard for police departments to find.
Chicago and many other municipalities are focusing on reforming the rigid and inconsistent rules of procurement.
Governments’ increasing reliance on special funds can put them in financial and legal trouble.
The majority of employee complaints result from weak managerial skills. What's being done to address it?
At least 20 states are developing performance-based systems for funding higher education. The impact varies widely from state to state.
These are the top challenges governments will need to address in 2016.
Employees are often overworked and undertrained, putting themselves and the inmates they're supposed to protect at risk.