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B&G REPORT.

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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WHY MANY STATE AND CITY RANKINGS DEFY REALITY

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WHY MANY STATE AND CITY RANKINGS DEFY REALITY

Back some years ago, when we first started to evaluate management capacity in states, counties, and cities for the now defunct Financial...

WHEN IT COMES TO DATA, CONTEXT IS KING

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WHEN IT COMES TO DATA, CONTEXT IS KING

Back in 2020, then President Donald Trump proclaimed that “The murder rate in Baltimore and Detroit is higher than El Salvador, Guatemala...

Government Ethos Can be Just as Important as Statutes

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Government Ethos Can be Just as Important as Statutes

It often feels as though the Holy Grail of government management is to have some process or procedure written into statute. That’s the...

WHAT ARISTOTLE KNEW ABOUT STATES AND LOCALITIES THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

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WHAT ARISTOTLE KNEW ABOUT STATES AND LOCALITIES THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

Aristotle had it right when he wrote, “The more you know, the more you know you don't know.” We’ve come across this idea repeatedly over...

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