B&G Report

Let’s Talk Performance!

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

How Can Auditors Work Well With Agencies and the Other Way Around

We’ve been spending our day watching the Association of Local Government Auditors Annual Conference online. We wish we could be there in...

What Value are Sensible Statutes Without Sufficient Oversight?

On April 1st a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that there was a crisis in mental health among...

Is Michigan Misspending Medicaid Dollars? A Battle Between Auditor and Agency.

The Michigan Office of the Auditor General (OAG) recently came out with a scathing performance audit about the state’s Medicaid and...

The Persistent Problem of Poor Data Quality

Back in 2015, we wrote a major feature for Governing magazine titled “The Causes, Cost and Consequence of Bad Government Data.” As far as...