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AN OPEN LETTER TO ELECTED OFFICIALS

Barrett & Greene

And they often tell us (usually off the record) that it’s the mayors, councilmembers, governors and legislators who stand in their way. Over many years, we’ve talked to scores, maybe hundreds, of people who have dedicated their lives to managing government performance.

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State legislatures ‘ramped up activity’ in first half of 2024, report finds

American City & Country

compared with the first half of 2022 to total 76,756, according to a 2024 State Trends Report by Quorum , a public affairs software. Quorum measured the first half of 2024 against the first half of 2022 because the second year of a legislative session tends to see fewer bills compared with the first, according to Quorum.

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21 August 2017 | Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy, By Christine Palus & Susan Webb Yackee*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

As we all know, the legal authority of public bureaucrats to make decisions resides in the delegation of discretion from elected legislators and executives, such as the president or state governors, to administrative agents.

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USAID uses Amazon Transcribe to publish speeches in minutes

AWS Public Sector Blog

USAID uses cloud-enabled services to automate communication strategy When USAID’s Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) requested a low cost, user-friendly solution to provide full transcriptions of recorded interviews and public remarks delivered by Administrator Power, they worked with AWS and CloudShape to build a solution.