B&G REPORT.

It feels like just yesterday when, during the pandemic, we were writing about the potential of remote work to make employees happier without diminishing the services they provide. What’s more, it appeared that there was the potential for large amounts of savings when cities, counties and states could cut back at least part of the office space they used. Yet a growing number of state and local governments have eliminated or drastically reduced the capacity of employees to work

Last Tuesday in our Management Update Section, we announced the publication of a study titled “2025 State and Local Workforce Survey...

Many years ago, when we were first introduced to the world of performance management, we became zealots, believing that cities and states...

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...

For some time, we’ve been fascinated by the relationship between executive branch managers and their legislatures or city councils. Not...

A few months ago, at the American Society for Public Administration conference in Washington D.C., the Center for Accountability and...

Today is “World Social Media Day,” a celebration of that form of communications that was first proclaimed in 2010 by Mashable, a media...

Many states, counties and city leaders are regularly raging against “fraud, waste and abuse.” This is hardly a new issue but inspired by...

We don’t have a degree in statistics. Nor are we data specialists. But after 30-plus years of using data as a basic tool in our quest to...

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...

In 2024, our professional life was very busy (as our colleagues, family and friends know), and so we hardly had the energy in our...

As we approach the last several weeks of December, our plan is to take a full vacation starting on December 14, continuing through New...

Thanksgiving is just a few days away and we thought this was an appropriate time to dig into some of the state and local government news...

A couple of weeks ago, our B&G Report published a series of answers to the question: “What should members of the press know in order to...

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...

When we were attending the most recent Southeastern Conference for Public Administration in Memphis (SECOPA), we sat in on a number of...

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...

Over the course of time, we’ve written repeatedly about the confusion many Americans have about which level of government provides which...