Borrowing a lesson from corporate America, state and local IT agencies are using metrics to quantify how they're doing.

Big Brother watches and waits in Glendale.

Catching every bit of fraud in government can result in what a county official calls 'spending a dime to chase a nickel.'

The assault on certificates of need, put in place decades ago to control health costs, couldn't come at a worse time.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not the only person who has gone from running a news organization to running a city. Paul Osborne, the new mayor of Decatur, Illinois, has been editor and publisher of the weekly Decatur Tribune for the past 33 years. But unlike Bloomberg, Osborne hasn't quit his job at the paper just because he's taken public office.