‘Business as Usual Can Be the Riskiest Procurement Approach’
Top insights about procurement and contracting from the What Works Cities Summit.
Behavioral Insights: A New Tool for Performance Management
Knowledge of the situational factors that may push people to make adverse choices has helped cities uncover new approaches to tackle longstanding challenges.
Is Deferred Maintenance a Financial Time Bomb for State and Local Governments?
It’s hard to know because there’s not a standardized way for measuring or recording it, but a budding coalition of experts and industry leaders wants to look at ways to change that.
Where State and Local Governments Are Upping Their Procurement
And the states that lead in each contracting area.
Needle-Exchange Case Heads to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The case has the potential to set a precedent that could determine the future of syringe programs in the Bay State.
Amid the Opioid Crisis, ‘The Best Ammunition That Public Officials Can Embrace Is Storytelling’
While maps can be useful, they can have very little narrative power when they stand alone.
Trump’s Immigration Executive Order Gives Some Local Governments Pause
Miami-Dade County leads a flurry of jurisdictions distancing themselves from “sanctuary city” status for fear of losing federal grant money.
What America’s Small-Town Mayors Think About Trump
The local leaders are breaking from tradition to weigh in on presidential politics.
Needle Exchanges Work, But Where’s the Funding?
Making clean syringes available to people who inject drugs can save counties millions of dollars in the long run, but funding has been slow to reach these critical programs.
‘Being Housed Does Not Alleviate All of the Other Poverty Needs That People Have’
The U.S. Conference of Mayors released its annual Hunger and Homelessness Survey, examining the challenges that cities continue to grapple with.
How Much Does The Cost of State And Local Public Employees Average Per Hour?
Newly released U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures point to an upward trend that mirrors the pressures that many state capitols and city halls are facing with retiree benefits.
New York Competition Will Focus on Local Government Consolidation, Restructuring
A winning consortium of jurisdictions will be eligible for about $20 million.
Navigator Award Finalist: Robert Green, City Manager, Auburndale, Fla.
This municipal leader has a solid track record of fostering the next generation of local government managers.
Criminals Increasingly Hold Government Computers for Ransom
Cybercriminals are preying on government agencies in search of a payoff.
Navigator Award Finalists: Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown and Team
Using municipal data to expand a blight-fighting program that strengthen communities and improves city services.
Navigator Award Finalists: Cincinnati City Manager Harry Black and Team
Among all the impressive work being done at Cincinnati City Hall to improve services, there’s a great fix-it app, too.
Navigator Awards Finalists in State & Local Executive Leadership
Finalists 21-30 feature individuals and teams in executive-level leadership in state and local governments.
When It Comes to Open Data, ‘Make Sure That It Is Meeting a Need of the User’
Experts in Washington, D.C. for Smart Cities Week discussed ways to help achieve this goal.
Cities Have the 'Ability to Coalescence That Bottom-Up Movement' to Fix Racial Inequalities
At a pivotal point in U.S. history, local governments and the private sector must collaborate to close opportunity gaps where the federal government cannot, according to social justice experts.
Navigator Award Finalists: Department and Agency Leadership
As we count up to 50, check out finalists 11 through 20.
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