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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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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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City Parks Tackling Climate Change
Typically, when people think about efforts to help deal with the byproducts of global warming, they focus on the power of federal...
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What Are The Best City Park Systems?
On May 3rd, The Trust for Public Land (TPS) released its annual ParkScore rankings of parks in the 100 most populous cities, based on...
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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...
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Does Measurement Get Things Done? Really?
Two of the most-repeated aphorisms pertaining to performance management have long been “What Gets Measured Gets Managed,” or, optionally,...
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Hiring Data: “A Game Changer”
In the current tough-to-hire environment, we’ve become increasingly aware of the importance of a strong entity-wide state government data...
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Return Utah: Reducing the Stigma of Work Gaps
Pools of new talent for state and local governments are in short supply. One state, which has come up with a significant new effort is...
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“I Wonder… What if…? Let’s Try!” From Sesame Street to Your Governments and Communities- The Power
By Bruce Waltuck, Professor, Kean University, College of Business and Public Management and an award-winning creator and facilitator of...
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Spending State Dollars Effectively By Prioritizing Partnerships
About a month ago, we wrote a column for Route Fifty about a dramatic transformation in the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS)....
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Surpluses & Deficits: What Do They Really Mean?
“A California budget surplus that is already expected to be massive could end up being billions of dollars more than initial estimates,”...
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Recommended Podcasts for You
We both really like listening to podcasts and even though we don’t have nearly the time to tune into all the ones we enjoy, we’re always...
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The Federal Jobs Report: What’s Happening In States and Localities?
On the morning of April 1, 2022, the New York Times gleefully reported this very long sentence about the happy news from the Department...
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State Investments: Higher Returns vs. Other Benefits
When states invest money, whether for their pension plans or other purposes, to what extent is it sensible for them to trade potentially...
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WANT TO GET YOUR STORY OUT? SIX TIPS FOR STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS
Over the course of years, we’ve given speeches about a variety of topics -- ranging from human resources to performance management to...
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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...
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California’s Powerful Example of Citizen Participation
We often talk about performance auditors on this website. These dedicated professionals may be appointed or elected. They use...
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Portland's New Review of its Audit Recommendations
Performance auditors frequently do a very good job at holding agencies in their states, cities and counties accountable, by doing careful...
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A little perspective. . . .
As we say on the home page of this website, we are "dedicated to state and local government." Notwithstanding that, we feel awkward about...
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Government Ethos Can be Just as Important as Statutes
It often feels as though the Holy Grail of government management is to have some process or procedure written into statute. That’s the...
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Understanding Understaffing
In the many performance audits we read each year, a common recurring problem is staff capacity. While this isn’t a new issue, we're...
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