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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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Bringing Context to Quality of Life Ratings

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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...

Measuring Principals (not Principles)

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Measuring Principals (not Principles)

Over the years in which we’ve been covering the evolution of performance management, it’s always been abundantly clear to us that great...

Praise in a Remote World

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Praise in a Remote World

We’ve repeatedly heard the phrase: “People don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses.” This comment has been supported by loads of...

Climate Action: Backed by Budget

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Climate Action: Backed by Budget

by Chris Fabian, CEO, ResourceX To prevent a “climate catastrophe,” the focus of local, regional, national, and international...

Understanding Fiscal Scandals and Their Impact on Localities

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Understanding Fiscal Scandals and Their Impact on Localities

There’s no shortage of news reports about fiscal scandals, and while we doubt the number of convicted politicians and employees has...

The Tower of State and Local Babel

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The Tower of State and Local Babel

Some years ago, when the phrase “big data,” was first gaining currency, we decided that before we embarked on any projects related to...

How To Use Data in Workforce Management

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How To Use Data in Workforce Management

Across the U.S., a growing number of cities, counties, and states are using data across agencies to improve management and make...

Disaggregating is King

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Disaggregating is King

Our friend and colleague Harry Hatry has long insisted that data is far more valuable when it’s disaggregated. In a January 2022 paper...

Where are the ARPA Funds Going in Large American Cities and Counties?

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Where are the ARPA Funds Going in Large American Cities and Counties?

There’s been a great deal written about the ways in which states and localities are spending the federal dollars they are receiving from...

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...

Crowdfunding to Help Pay for Infrastructure

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Crowdfunding to Help Pay for Infrastructure

by John R. Bartle, University of Nebraska at Omaha and Can Chen, Georgia State University John Bartle ...

Using Data to Build Trust in Government

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Using Data to Build Trust in Government

By Doug Criscitello, Managing Director, Grant Thornton Public Sector Trust, perhaps the most important ingredient to a well-functioning...

City Parks Tackling Climate Change

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City Parks Tackling Climate Change

Typically, when people think about efforts to help deal with the byproducts of global warming, they focus on the power of federal...

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...

The Persistent Problem of Poor Data Quality

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The Persistent Problem of Poor Data Quality

Back in 2015, we wrote a major feature for Governing magazine titled “The Causes, Cost and Consequence of Bad Government Data.” As far as...

Is “innovation” an overused word in government?

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Is “innovation” an overused word in government?

A couple of weeks ago, New York City’s new mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order consolidating all the city’s technology agencies...

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