July 2014
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Citizen participation in local government is abysmally low, but a national survey shows what types of people are most and least likely people to speak up.
Oregon’s workers’ compensation reform shows benchmarking (when done right) can lead to big gains in efficiency.
Prudent fiscal stewardship is essential to self-government.
Local governments are using mesh networks to stay connected during outages, offer high-speed Wi-Fi and breach the digital divide. But it’s not perfect.
It’s not that governments don’t want to give the public the services they demand, it’s that they increasingly can’t afford to -- even by raising taxes.
