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The B&G Report features newsy items relating to a wide variety of state and local government management topics, including state and local performance audit, state and local performance management, government budgeting, state and local human resource issues, and a variety of other public sector issues.

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FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

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FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

A little over a year ago, we wrote a column for Route Fifty about the remarkably ambitious host of efforts that Fort Worth, Texas was...

REINVENTING THE WHEEL – PUBLIC SECTOR STYLE

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REINVENTING THE WHEEL – PUBLIC SECTOR STYLE

Recently, a relatively high-level manager in a large southern city told us about the progress her city was making in energizing a...

FAILURE AS A KEY TO SUCCESS

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FAILURE AS A KEY TO SUCCESS

We’ve just been catching up on one of our favorite podcasts, Freakonomics Radio, and came across a wonderful conversation with Samuel...

HOW POLITICS WASTES TAX DOLLARS IN TAX INCENTIVES

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HOW POLITICS WASTES TAX DOLLARS IN TAX INCENTIVES

Over the course of the last few months, we’ve been digging deeply into the world of tax incentives given by states and local governments...

Economic Development Spending: Let’s Find Out if It’s Effective

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Economic Development Spending: Let’s Find Out if It’s Effective

In the June issue of Government Finance Review, we have a column titled “Are Tax Incentives Good for Cities and States?” Though the...

Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Gap: Public Finance Journal

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Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Gap: Public Finance Journal

by Craig S Maher, Director School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska, Omaha and co-editor of the Public Finance Journal...

Procurement Offices and the Environment

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Procurement Offices and the Environment

It would be a wonderful thing, we think, if the federal government could move forward on environmental issues. But as recently as a few...

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