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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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State Investments: Higher Returns vs. Other Benefits
When states invest money, whether for their pension plans or other purposes, to what extent is it sensible for them to trade potentially...
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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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Is Michigan Misspending Medicaid Dollars? A Battle Between Auditor and Agency.
The Michigan Office of the Auditor General (OAG) recently came out with a scathing performance audit about the state’s Medicaid and...
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California’s Powerful Example of Citizen Participation
We often talk about performance auditors on this website. These dedicated professionals may be appointed or elected. They use...
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Portland's New Review of its Audit Recommendations
Performance auditors frequently do a very good job at holding agencies in their states, cities and counties accountable, by doing careful...
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A little perspective. . . .
As we say on the home page of this website, we are "dedicated to state and local government." Notwithstanding that, we feel awkward about...
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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...
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Understanding Understaffing
In the many performance audits we read each year, a common recurring problem is staff capacity. While this isn’t a new issue, we're...
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Seven things that tick us off
As anyone who is following our website knows, we write for a great many other publications and organizations, including Route Fifty, the...
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The Scourge of Abandoned Properties​
by Alan Mallach, senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress and author of The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s paper “The Empty...
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Problems with Performance Reporting: A Vermont Critique
We’ve been watching city, state and county efforts at performance reporting for many years, and we know it’s hard to do. We applaud the...
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B&G's Guide to Government Organization News
We frequently track the work of government membership associations, one of the best ways to see what state and local decision-makers and...
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Who’s Running the Governmental Show? It Matters!
We like to think that we’re pretty sophisticated in most things pertaining to states and localities. But when we drive through our little...
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Cutting Grocery Taxes: Good Politics, Bad Tax Policy​
By David Brunori, research professor of public policy at The George Washington University and Senior Director at RSM US LLP There have...
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