According to a September, 2016 Galup poll, more than one in thre Americans surveyed indicated that they had little or no trust in their state governments. That's better than is the case with the federal ...
Karen Thoreson thinks about innovation and government a lot. As president of the Alliance for Innovation, she's an expert on how municipalities can use fresh ideas to ...
“Many parents of children with special needs ... find it difficult to get the services they need for their youngsters and so they come to us,” says state Sen. Diane Allen, ...
Open records laws make it possible for the public to get their hands on valuable government information. That's generally a good thing. But there are a number ...
In just a four-year term, it’s not uncommon for a governor to watch high-level officials walk out the door—sometimes several times for the same job. Though there are no studies indicating ...
Every year, thousands of professionals at all levels of government in the United States execute contracts to buy $2 trillion in public goods and services, ranging from fighter jets ...
Happy fiscal New Year! Or so the National Council of State Legislatures proclaimed in its blog post this month. I second the council’s wish for fiscal 2017, but but with a bunch of ...
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t adapt to a changing environment. There are bad signs that American government is caught in its own Jurassic trap — a mismatch of its ...