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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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WANT TO WRITE SO THAT OTHERS CAN USE WHAT YOU’VE WRITTEN? HERE’s YOUR CHANCE!
In 1799 when Napoleon was bearing down on Egypt a stone slab was discovered that came to be called the Rosetta Stone. It bore text in...
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"Disaggregate to Manage"
Our late friend and colleague Harry Hatry long insisted that data is far more valuable when it’s disaggregated. In a January 2022 paper...
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Government Management: Why don’t people care?
We are puzzled and frustrated with the ignorance of many people about the importance of state and local government management. They tend...
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Fatigue in the Public Sector Workplace: Risks and Solutions
Last summer, we wrote a report for UKG about the increasingly onerous issue of state and local employees who -- for a variety of reasons...
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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...
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Hide and Seek: A Researcher’s Quest for Contact Information
Leaders in state and local governments persistently claim that they want to be more transparent, and we believe that this is a sincere...
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On the Road to a More Diverse Workforce
Cities, counties and states from coast to coast are cultivating efforts to create a more diverse workforce – one that mirrors the...
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Nine New Governors and a Generational Shift
Out of the 36 gubernatorial elections last November, 26 resulted in the return of an incumbent while only one, Nevada’s Steve Sisolak,...
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Let’s Talk Performance!
A couple of weeks ago, we were invited by the National Center for Public Performance to be the inaugural panelists in its series of...
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Ensuring that Essential Goods and Services Are Available in Times of Crisis
by Stephen B. Gordon, lead coordinator of the Continuity of Supply Initiative (CoSI) For the past two and a half years, times have not...
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Please Recommend a Book
We’ve recently been reading an advance copy of a book by Bill Leighty, former chief of staff under Governors Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of...
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FIGHTING FRAUD: ADVICE FOR SMALLER CITIES
Whatever their size, all state and local governments must contend with the possibility that federal grant money or taxpayer revenues will...
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The Non-Tech Problems with Public Sector Apps
With the advent of mobile apps and easily accessible web portals, there’s growing potential for improved communication between...
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The Fight for Independent Oversight
In 2018, a regional ballot measure in nine counties in the San Francisco area dedicated $500 million of $4.5 billion in increased...
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Lagging Inspections: Will We Never Learn?
We are, as readers of the B&G Report know, regular users of performance audits. In so doing, we're sometimes reminded about the Greek...
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Getting Feedback From Residents: A New Survey
Increasingly, the old days of town hall meetings is giving way to electronic means for getting input from residents. Though this means of...
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New, Up-to-date GUIDE TO BUDGET RESOURCES
Several years ago, we worked with the Volcker Alliance to created a guide to resources about state budgeting intended for use by public...
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Why hide from data?
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been doing research into the challenges municipalities face when they want to hire a diverse workforce....
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Bringing Context to Quality of Life Ratings
Yesterday afternoon, at the #ICMA’s annual conference in Columbus Ohio, an announcement was made about an exciting collaboration to...
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Engaging the Public on Climate Action
By Chris Adams, CEO of Balancing Act, a creator of simulation-based online engagement tools. With the recent passage of the...
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