B&G REPORT.

Much of the coverage about the concerns that beset states and localities tends to focus on specific areas like budgetary shortfalls, the need for better technology and a shortage of people to fill many vital positions (where have all the accountants gone?) But, increasingly, in conversations we’re having about all these topics and more, the problem that seem to keep our sources awake at night can be expressed in a single word: “Uncertainty.” “ Uncertainty is not generally wel

Over the course of years, we’ve come to rely on a number of organizations that specialize in various aspects of state and local...

When was the last time you heard anyone say, “Gee what an excellent bureaucracy we have in the Department of Motor Vehicles. It only took...

For some time, we’ve been fascinated by the relationship between executive branch managers and their legislatures or city councils. Not...

A few months ago, at the American Society for Public Administration conference in Washington D.C., the Center for Accountability and...

Today is the first day of Public Service Recognition Week and since much of our readership is made up by people who have devoted their...

Last week, in a B&G Report titled, “Information Can Be a Buried Treasure,” we wrote about our concerns about the use of artificial...

More than ten years ago, leaders in West Haven, Connecticut (where the Greene of Barrett and Greene grew up), began planning a fabulous...

For years, we’ve been writing about the importance of good data, based upon which states, counties and cities can make good decisions....

We’re looking forward to participating in a panel at the upcoming annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration...

In the wake of the pandemic, we co-wrote a paper for the IBM Center for the Business of Government in collaboration with renowned...

As regular readers of this website know, we generally avoid covering politics or the federal government. That said, we’re beginning this...

In 2024, our professional life was very busy (as our colleagues, family and friends know), and so we hardly had the energy in our...

We were involved in a meeting the other day, in which a couple of participants were talking about agile government. We hear that term...

Thanksgiving is just a few days away and we thought this was an appropriate time to dig into some of the state and local government news...

A couple of weeks ago, our B&G Report published a series of answers to the question: “What should members of the press know in order to...

Last week’s B&G Report included the second in a series of lists, compiled by experts, about managing performance. The first such list,...

We received a tremendous response a few weeks ago when we published “A Reader’s Guide to Government Performance”  by John Kamensky, a...

Over the years, we’ve written a great deal about ways in which government officials can improve their relationship with the press. We...

We recently came across an online report by a local NPR station that began with a headline that stated that, “Philadelphia and Wilmington...