Our hope, here at ICMA’s Next Generation Initiative, is that this blog will feature some of the best writing from the student members of ICMA. Student members will be encouraged to submit their thoughts, ideas, innovations, and research to share with the ICMA community. For students, this will be an amazing opportunity for their work to be read by local government managers all over the world. For managers, we hope this blog can serve as a much needed window into the minds of the next generation of professional local government managers. Enjoy!