July 2008 · Volume 90 · Number 6

Innovation in Public Management: What the Future Will Demand of Us Managers must help to ensure that the tools, the training, the equipment, and the human infrastructure of systems and processes are provided for local governments to operate effectively after innovations are in place and up and running. It is the manager’s task to integrate and empower employees, citizens, businesspeople, and elected leaders in the process of continuously identifying and improving innovations. As this is done, the origins of local government are re-created: small groups of people that came together to improve residents’ conditions and their very lives by doing it better together than they could have done it alone.   Katy Singlaub, Washoe County, Nevada. Read article

Hybrid Police Patrol Vehicles Praised

Westwood turns to alternative vehicles as gas prices increase.  Robert S. Hoffmann, Westwood, New Jersey. Read article

Recognize These Executive Interviewing Techniques? *

This article provides initial interview practices used by four local governments around the country.  Michael Ashcraft, Olathe, Kansas. Read article

Taking Control of Your Communications Infrastructure *

There are opportunities and challenges for local governments building and operating telecommunications infrastructure.  Nicholas Miller and Gail Karish, Washington, D.C. Read article

Making Cities Livable Through Place Marketing

Here is an example of how to help students be better prepared for their careers in the public sector through practical experience and a relevant, structured learning process.  Janet Cherrington, Ph.D., is interim chair, Urban and Regional Studies Institute, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota. Read article

Ethics

Cutthroat Election Battle
Drinking and Driving 

On Retirement

IRS Ruling Raises Issues of Fairness for Beneficiaries 

Commentary *

County Government: Past, Present, and Future 

Profile

William Fraser, Montpelier, Vermont 

Director's Desk *

Acting to Coordinate Emergency Management 

FYI *

Lightning Safety Reminders 

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