B&G REPORT.

Much of the coverage about the concerns that beset states and localities tends to focus on specific areas like budgetary shortfalls, the need for better technology and a shortage of people to fill many vital positions (where have all the accountants gone?) But, increasingly, in conversations we’re having about all these topics and more, the problem that seem to keep our sources awake at night can be expressed in a single word: “Uncertainty.” “ Uncertainty is not generally wel

For some time, the complexity of dealing with scores of rules set forth by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has become...

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...

Recently, a relatively high-level manager in a large southern city told us about the progress her city was making in energizing a...

We’ve just been catching up on one of our favorite podcasts, Freakonomics Radio, and came across a wonderful conversation with Samuel...

Over the course of the last few months, we’ve been digging deeply into the world of tax incentives given by states and local governments...

In the June issue of Government Finance Review, we have a column titled “Are Tax Incentives Good for Cities and States?” Though the...

by Craig S Maher, Director School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska, Omaha and co-editor of the Public Finance Journal...

It would be a wonderful thing, we think, if the federal government could move forward on environmental issues. But as recently as a few...