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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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DATAPHOBIA
A couple of months ago at a large social gathering we had the opportunity to spend some time with a person who has dedicated his life to...
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Getting Feedback From Residents: A New Survey
Increasingly, the old days of town hall meetings is giving way to electronic means for getting input from residents. Though this means of...
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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....
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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