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The Fight for Independent Oversight
In 2018, a regional ballot measure in nine counties in the San Francisco area dedicated $500 million of $4.5 billion in increased...
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- Oct 5
- 2 min
Lagging Inspections: Will We Never Learn?
We are, as readers of the B&G Report know, regular users of performance audits. In so doing, we're sometimes reminded about the Greek...
greenebarrett
- Sep 22
- 3 min
Why hide from data?
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been doing research into the challenges municipalities face when they want to hire a diverse workforce....
greenebarrett
- Sep 20
- 1 min
Bringing Context to Quality of Life Ratings
Yesterday afternoon, at the #ICMA’s annual conference in Columbus Ohio, an announcement was made about an exciting collaboration to...
greenebarrett
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Measuring Principals (not Principles)
Over the years in which we’ve been covering the evolution of performance management, it’s always been abundantly clear to us that great...
greenebarrett
- Aug 24
- 4 min
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)...
greenebarrett
- Aug 16
- 2 min
Praise in a Remote World
We’ve repeatedly heard the phrase: “People don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses.” This comment has been supported by loads of...
greenebarrett
- Aug 9
- 4 min
Climate Action: Backed by Budget
by Chris Fabian, CEO, ResourceX To prevent a “climate catastrophe,” the focus of local, regional, national, and international...
greenebarrett
- Aug 4
- 3 min
Understanding Fiscal Scandals and Their Impact on Localities
Toward the end of July, Route Fifty published our most recent column about the arduous task that government officials have when faced...
greenebarrett
- Aug 2
- 3 min
The Tower of State and Local Babel
Some years ago, when the phrase “big data,” was first gaining currency, we decided that before we embarked on any projects related to...
greenebarrett
- Jul 25
- 3 min
How To Use Data in Workforce Management
Across the U.S., a growing number of cities, counties, and states are using data across agencies to improve management and make...
greenebarrett
- Jul 21
- 3 min
Disaggregating is King
Our friend and colleague Harry Hatry has long insisted that data is far more valuable when it’s disaggregated. In a January 2022 paper...
greenebarrett
- Jul 19
- 1 min
The B&G Wordle
It was clear that many of you enjoyed the Wordle that appeared in this space a little under a week ago, so we decided to put up new...
greenebarrett
- Jul 19
- 3 min
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...
greenebarrett
- Jul 14
- 1 min
The B&G Worldle
Are you playing the seemingly addictive game of Wordle? Practically everyone we know seems to be. Doubtless, the day of Wordle will pass,...
greenebarrett
- Jul 12
- 2 min
A Law Ignored “To a Startling Degree”
While pensions and retiree health liabilities garner lots of headlines as dramatic fiscal threats, a less-publicized, but still critical...
greenebarrett
- Jul 7
- 2 min
Where are the ARPA Funds Going in Large American Cities and Counties?
There’s been a great deal written about the ways in which states and localities are spending the federal dollars they are receiving from...
greenebarrett
- Jun 30
- 6 min
Lessons Learned from TANF Clients
In researching the 26-year-old Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program recently, we had the chance to talk with Mary Beth...
greenebarrett
- Jun 22
- 3 min
Procurement Offices and the Environment
It would be a wonderful thing, we think, if the federal government could move forward on environmental issues. But as recently as a few...
greenebarrett
- Jun 16
- 2 min
How Staffing Shortages May Be Affecting Illinois Children
Over the last months, we've written a series of columns for Route Fifty and elsewhere about the difficulties states and localities are...