Policy Chats

JUNE 16, 2020

In this episode, retired CEO of San Bernardino County, Greg Devereaux talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the different roles and responsibilities of counties versus cities in general, but especially amid a pandemic. Interviewers: Maddie Bunting (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Chief Ambassador).

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Kevin Mulligan, senior manager, U.S. Federal Policy and Outreach, Government Affairs and Public Policy Kevin Mulligan of Washington, D.C., Kevin Mulligan Senior Manager, U.S. We hope that these stories serve as a testament to this fact, and light a path for other Veterans to find success in tech.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

This blog post summarizes the experiences and insights he presented at the AWS Institute and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Education program for public sector leaders in June 2022. A common driver of public sector transformation is the potential for efficiency. Seems trivial, right?

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

APRIL 25, 2023

Adam also served as Director of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management from 2019-2022. From 2014-2016, he was a Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Adam also served as Director of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management from 2019-2022. and 30,000 employees.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It can also let you efficiently manage rideshare service operations, enhance revenue, inform appropriate public policy, and guide investment decisions. GeoAnalytics Engine on Amazon EMR can make the analysis feasible and aid in spatial prediction strategies.

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GovLoop

JUNE 11, 2024

The concept of evidence-based policymaking — the idea that policies should be developed and refined based on hard data, not just hunches — can play a critical role in helping state and local agencies identify and mitigate systemic issues that undermine government’s ability to serve all constituents.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

By Elizabeth Linos, Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director, , The People Lab. ​ ​ The crises of the past few years have brought with them a rallying cry for more evidence in government; a call to “follow the science” and “lead with data.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The problem with equilibrium or shrinkage is that personnel is the biggest cost for cities, and wages go up not down, not to mention the issue with retirees and pensions--typically local governments may stint on wages but in return offer great pensions often with health care, but these are underfunded creating significant financial overhang.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

They have impressive government and industry experience and will cover topics such as IT; diversity, equity and inclusion; workforce management; process improvement; leadership; career building; and customer experience, to name just a few. Prior work supported governments and community organizations in Rhode Island.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They can help you make the most of your education and your work days with choices on everything from an after school job to what can happen when public administration goes right. Exciting Well Known Career Paths in Public Administration. When one thinks of public administration, they often think of a government distributor or manager.

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

The city’s pension boards have accused Emergency Manager Orr’s team of failing to negotiate in good faith over changes to retiree pensions (NPR) which I feel will be the single largest hang-up and possibility for a bailout scenario that Detroit has in order to salvage retiree benefits and incomes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This episode interviews David Rothstein, Senior Principal, CFE Fund and Matt Hanke, Retail Strategies Manager, VP from Northwest Bank as they share the impact and promise of the Bank On program where they are working to bring the unbanked and the underbanked into the financial mainsteam. . Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund: [link].

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Gardner Policy Institute. The institute, which is based at the University of Utah, provides state and local leaders with economic, demographic and public policy research. Bateman and her team focus on demographics and work extensively with Census data, but also create their own datasets based on local input.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We received a tremendous response a few weeks ago when we published “A Reader’s Guide to Government Performance” by John Kamensky, a longtime leader in the performance field who we’ve known since the early 1990s when we visited him at his GAO office and he shared knowledge about performance management in New Zealand, Australia and other countries.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. The tradeoff between revenue growth and stability has always been a concern for local governments. Authors’ Bios.

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First State Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Betsey Suchanic, Senior Program Manager with the Urban Libraries Council, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about local libraries' critical community economic development roles.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The undeniable fiscal constraints associated with local governance has challenged contemporary public administrators to achieve more with less. Budgets are stretched thin, and local government managers face increasingly complex service delivery demands from an electorate that loathes the idea of paying higher taxes.

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In this edition, weve drawn from the same sources, but have also added contributions from Don Moynihan, who recently left the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University to become a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Moynihan, and Gregg G.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Last week’s B&G Report included the second in a series of lists, compiled by experts, about managing performance. When we originally wrote the book, we were aware of a sea of writing that ballyhooed the potential of performance management to cure what ailed state and local government.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In the next year, we will see local governments take a closer look at embodied carbon and full lifecycle footprints of materials,” Harris tells Co-op Solutions. Harris notes these projects include everything from recycling to electrifying public transit and more complex topics like decarbonization.

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