B&G REPORT.

“Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it,” wrote Robin Hopp in “The Mad Ship”, a book that was published in late 2003. Though the wording is kind of extreme, we think that a somewhat similar sentiment applies to city, county and state government. As good ideas wend their way to fruition, they’re going to encounter the unexpected, like it or not. If leaders expect a neat predictable una

When was the last time you heard anyone say, “Gee what an excellent bureaucracy we have in the Department of Motor Vehicles. It only took...

Today is the first day of Public Service Recognition Week and since much of our readership is made up by people who have devoted their...

For years, we’ve been writing about the importance of good data, based upon which states, counties and cities can make good decisions....

We’re looking forward to participating in a panel at the upcoming annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration...

Last week’s B&G Report included the second in a series of lists, compiled by experts, about managing performance. The first such list,...

Over the years, we’ve written a great deal about ways in which government officials can improve their relationship with the press. We...

We recently came across an online report by a local NPR station that began with a headline that stated that, “Philadelphia and Wilmington...

Just the other day, we were editing a Guest Column for this website (we won’t bother to mention the name of the author) and discovered...

A little over a year ago, we wrote a column for Route Fifty about the remarkably ambitious host of efforts that Fort Worth, Texas was...