B&G REPORT.

For some years now, when driving on busy highways there are inevitable moments when we need to merge to a right-hand lane to easily get off at our exit. Maybe there’s a touch of paranoia here, but it feels to us that as soon as we signal to move from our lane to the right, the car on the other lane seems to speed up and not slow down. Our trick – and this works much of the time – is to have the one of us in the passenger seat open the window and put out a hand to signal our i

It feels like just yesterday when, during the pandemic, we were writing about the potential of remote work to make employees happier without diminishing the services they provide. What’s more, it appeared that there was the potential for large amounts of savings when cities, counties and states could cut back at least part of the office space they used. Yet a growing number of state and local governments have eliminated or drastically reduced the capacity of employees to work

Nearly every city, county or state gathers huge quantities of data for a variety of purposes. Some of it is effectively used, some is...

In conversations that we’ve had lately with people in human resources and elsewhere in government, we’ve found ourselves repeatedly...

Over more than 30 years of covering state and local government, we can’t recall ever talking to a public sector manager who loved going...

About a year ago, we wrote a B&G report titled “ Is Speedy Government Good Government? ” in which we made the case that the pressure for...

Not to be overly blunt, but we’ve grown sick and tired of hearing people complaining about how long it takes state and local governments...