After the Great Recession, slightly declining tax revenues and other reductions threatened full implementation of the city's proposed new pay plan for its employees, and layoffs seemed imminent. At the same time, expectations that the city would continue to provide quality public services persisted. While the tax decline soon subsided, it was replaced with a long-term financial stagnancy that exists even today.

In 2005, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation commissioned a Blue Ribbon Task Force, which found that metropolitan Kansas City was all but alone in not having a world-class research university in the region.

Two videos illustrate how professional local government management contributes to the quality of life in Lake County and the villages of Glenview and Woodridge, Illinois.

Sign lawyers (yes, there is such a thing) agree on one thing and disagree on another.

Excuses take root in our lives because we allow ourselves to get caught up in the cycle of repeating them instead of taking control, breaking bad habits, and building self-esteem.

In this post, we interviewed Amy J.P. McEwan, deputy county administrator of Lake County, Illinois.