By Mark Funkhouser How are your local government’s employees doing? If you don’t know the answer to that, you should. We’ve been paying a lot of attention to the Great…
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State and local governments have long known they have a workforce pipeline problem, but the Great Resignation brought on by the pandemic has intensified that challenge. Government workers are stressed…
This year’s COP26 international climate change conference has seen unprecedented participation from the finance industry, a development that has evoked criticism from those who believe bankers aren’t going nearly far…
For many folks working in government, Stockton, California, wouldn’t be the first place that comes to mind when we think about sound financial management. But maybe now, in today’s volatile…
For modern cities, the pathway to economic success just might be a sidewalk. When we talk about ways to supercharge a city’s economy, few topics get as much attention as…
As someone who’s advocated for local-government workers for 40 years, I’m going to tell you something you’d never expect me to say but that I truly believe: Cities should employ a lot fewer people.
As someone who’s advocated for local-government workers for 40 years, I’m going to tell you something you’d never expect me to say but that I truly believe: Cities should employ…
In what felt like an eerie flashback, the scenes at the gas pumps following last month’s ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline resembled the gas crises of the 1970s: long…
Here’s a harsh reality that will be hard for some who lead and manage in municipal government to stomach. Those staffers you lost as COVID-19 battered your local government’s tax…
As state and local governments celebrate the latest federal stimulus package, I’m struck by what I heard recently from Uri Monson, CFO of the Philadelphia School District: “The hardest thing…