This article highlights outstanding achievements, community partnerships, and superior innovations from local governments around Michigan. Features the following projects...

This Miami-Dade, Florida, guide provides conceptual and operational frameworks for the county's performance measurement efforts Discusses types of performance measures and best practices for their development...

This article highlights the formalization of a pet emergency evacuation plan following a 1999 wildfire that charred more than 52,000 acres in the Apple Valley, California, area...

This ethics column describes a scenario in which a state legislator needs a driver for an upcoming county-fair parade, and the town manager is in the best position...

Both public and private organizations have specific life cycles, and an organization's prime is the peak of its life cycle.

This article discusses ways for local governments to deal with false reporting by the mass media. Provides one effective method and one less effective method of dealing...

This article highlights the increased importance and visibility of university development projects.