B&G REPORT.

We’ve been on the road a lot lately attending conferences around the country. The primary benefit we get from these sessions are the conversations we have in the hallways and receptions, as well as meeting new sources we can use to feed our insatiable need for content for this website. But of course, we also attend scads of concurrent sessions and plenary speeches, as well. And often they are captivating and even inspirational. In fact, just a couple of weeks ago, we publishe

We’ve never really understood the way horoscopes work. How can it be that if someone is born a minute after midnight on October 24th,...

With the Fourth of July right around the corner, many Americans are looking forward to a day off from work, cookouts and fireworks. Yet...

We get a great deal of information from the Internet for our work, and there’s little question that the easy access to tons of reports,...

In 1799 when Napoleon was bearing down on Egypt a stone slab was discovered that came to be called the Rosetta Stone. It bore text in...

As we recently reported in the second of a two-part series about Trust In Government for Route Fifty, about 45% of Americans have a less...

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

Cities, counties and states from coast to coast are cultivating efforts to create a more diverse workforce – one that mirrors the...

Out of the 36 gubernatorial elections last November, 26 resulted in the return of an incumbent while only one, Nevada’s Steve Sisolak,...

A couple of weeks ago, we were invited by the National Center for Public Performance to be the inaugural panelists in its series of...

We’ve recently been reading an advance copy of a book by Bill Leighty, former chief of staff under Governors Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of...

A little over two years ago, as we were researching an IBM Center for the Business of Government report about lessons learned from the...

Whatever their size, all state and local governments must contend with the possibility that federal grant money or taxpayer revenues will...

With the advent of mobile apps and easily accessible web portals, there’s growing potential for improved communication between...

In 2018, a regional ballot measure in nine counties in the San Francisco area dedicated $500 million of $4.5 billion in increased...

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...

Increasingly, the old days of town hall meetings is giving way to electronic means for getting input from residents. Though this means of...

Several years ago, we worked with the Volcker Alliance to created a guide to resources about state budgeting intended for use by public...

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been doing research into the challenges municipalities face when they want to hire a diverse workforce....

Yesterday afternoon, at the #ICMA’s annual conference in Columbus Ohio, an announcement was made about an exciting collaboration to...