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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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SHORTCOMINGS OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
As anyone who has been reading our work in the past knows, we’re strong believers in making sure that there’s ample use of evidence when...
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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (Part 3)
As we approach the last several weeks of December, our plan is to take a full vacation starting on December 14, continuing through New...
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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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TRANSPARENCY AND TRUST
As we recently reported in the second of a two-part series about Trust In Government for Route Fifty, about 45% of Americans have a less...
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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...
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The Pandemic and Chocolate Bars
Over the last few years, a whole bundle of things that happened in the state and local government world were attributed in some way to...
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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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Who Pays When Work-Life Balance Gets Unbalanced?
We’d probably be the subject of justifiable ridicule if we were to come out against the notion of work life balance in the public sector...
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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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Measuring Broadband Funding: A New GAO Report
As the federal government hands out money to states and localities for broadband services (and other infrastructure as well), one...
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WANT TO GET YOUR STORY OUT? SIX TIPS FOR STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS
Over the course of years, we’ve given speeches about a variety of topics -- ranging from human resources to performance management to...
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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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