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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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Budget Lessons from the States for the Feds:How to Radically Change Expectations about the Federal
by Dr. Carolyn Bourdeaux, Senior Visiting Scholar, University of Georgia; Board Member of the Concord Coalition; Former Member of...
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Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Gap: Public Finance Journal
by Craig S Maher, Director School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska, Omaha and co-editor of the Public Finance Journal...
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A Road to Trust in Government
by Dawa Hitch, Communication and Public Engagement Director, Asheville, North Carolina. In historically disenfranchised communities,...
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The Big CHIPS Act Matching-Subsidy Myth
by Greg LeRoy Executive Director, Good Jobs First, a nonprofit watchdog group on economic development incentives. Public officials,...
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A Startling Insight Into the Auditor/City Manager Relationship
by Hala Altamimi Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration, University of Kansas In the public administration...
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Measuring & Managing Business Tax Incentives
by Dr. Ellen Harpel, Founder of Smart Incentives and Randall Bauer, Director, PFM Group Consulting Randall Bauer Ellen Harpel As...
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Solutions for the Talent Gap in Finance Offices
By Eric S. Berman, MSA, CPA, CGMA and Dr. Bradford Rockabrand CPA, CIA, MBA, Partners, Eide Bailly, LLP Eric Berman Bradford Rockabrand...
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What's Next for Evidence-Based Policy Making?
By Elizabeth Linos, Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director, The...
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Fostering Financial Literacy in New York State: How's It Going?
by Thomas P. DiNapoli, Comptroller, New York State Across America, people are facing uncertainty in economic times, with rising...
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Ensuring that Essential Goods and Services Are Available in Times of Crisis
by Stephen B. Gordon, lead coordinator of the Continuity of Supply Initiative (CoSI) For the past two and a half years, times have not...
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Engaging the Public on Climate Action
By Chris Adams, CEO of Balancing Act, a creator of simulation-based online engagement tools. With the recent passage of the...
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Five Key Benefits of Enterprise Risk Management for Government
by Marty Benison, Industry Executive Director for State and Local Government, Oracle While the move to “Software as a Service” (SaaS)...
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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...
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Why States Need Stronger Statutes about Animal Cruelty
by Diana Urban, former Chair of the Connecticut General Assembly Committee on Children, presently founder and president of Protecting...
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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 ...
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Keeping the Budget Boring
by Neil Bergsman, Senior Policy Analyst at Maryland Nonprofits with a 35-year background in Maryland government finance, both executive...
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Engaging the Community to Serve the Community: The Providence Rescue Plan
By Joshua Avila, MPA, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, City of Providence, Office of Mayor Jorge O. Elorza I joined the City of...
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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...
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“I Wonder… What if…? Let’s Try!” From Sesame Street to Your Governments and Communities- The Power
By Bruce Waltuck, Professor, Kean University, College of Business and Public Management and an award-winning creator and facilitator of...
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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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