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Boosting Emotional Intelligence-A Key to Improved Local Government Working Relationships

Public Administration Associates

In late spring, I had the honor and privilege of giving the opening keynote talk at the UW-Whitewater Local Government Leadership Workshop. The ten strategies I presented to the group of about 50 local government administrators from southern Wisconsin were the following: Pay Attention to Your Own Emotions First.

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How the California Policy Lab is helping state and local agencies tackle homelessness, poverty and other key policy challenges: An interview with Janey Rountree and Evan White, Executive Directors – Episode #180

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

The California Policy Lab ( @CAPolicyLab ) was launched in January 2017 with a mission to create partnerships between researchers at two of California’s leading universities — UCLA and UC Berkeley — and California’s state and local government agencies.

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Tax incentive programs underfund schools

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Between 2017 and 2023, those schools lost $237.3 The lack of funds is a result of tax breaks Kansas City lavishes on companies that do business there. The program is supposed to bring new jobs but instead has starved schools. million through tax abatements, according to the Kansas City Public Schools. That city is hardly an anomaly.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” But during his decade-plus as King County executive, lifelong West Seattleite Dow Constantine has been the local music and arts community’s biggest champion in local government.

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Transforming the culture of procurement in state and local government: An interview with Jeffrey Liebman, Director, Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab – Episode #141

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

“Many of the most important functions of state and local governments – from building and maintaining roads to housing the homeless – involve contracting for goods and services supplied by the private sector,” notes the Harvard Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab in their primer, Results-Driven Contracting: An Overview.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

A recent study by Tenable Research found that many organizations were falling victim to attacks that exploited well-known vulnerabilities, including some dating to 2017. The federal government has increased efforts to improve the security of the software supply chain.

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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. More of that, please." He makes the point that the Council probably needs more staff to be able to do so. The auditor, former Councilmember Kathy Patterson, has done a lot of good reporting.

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