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Utilizing Web 2.0 Tools (Sep 2)
State and local governments use social networks to save time and enhance collaboration. More from Governing.

Liquor Privatization Initiatives - MRSC Left "Bone Dry" (Sep 2)
Two Washington initiatives, I-1100 and I-1105, could adversely affect local government funding,including most of the monies used by MRSC to provide services to cities and counties. More from Municipal Research News.

MRSC's new e-newsletter: Management In Focus (Sep 2)
MRSC is proud to present a new, FREE eNewsletter Management In Focus. We’ll be featuring items of interest to Washington local government managers in a concise format you can easily review. If you’d like to subscribe, click here.

Collaborative Democracy: Beth Noveck on Reengineering Civic Life (Sep 2)
Even though we do not have a system of monarchy or aristocracy, we still believe in the notion of political expertise, and the notion that we have to rest power at the center. More from World Changing.

Emerging Issues: Wrestling With Jane Jacobs (Sep 2)
We don’t need acolytes of Jane Jacobs; we need people who will think as hard and as well as she did about "the kind of problem a city is." More from Nation's Cities Weekly.

Great Good Places (Sep 2)
New restaurants that look like they’ve been part of their neighborhoods forever all share a subtle but ambitious social agenda: to create and celebrate community. More from Metropolis Magazine.

Organizational Design in Twenty-First Century Policing Organizations (Sep 2)
Police futurist Bernard Levin, said of law enforcement, "Short term thinking abounds and strategic thinking does not." More from The Police Chief.

Public Libraries Daring to Be Different (Sep 2)
Local governments, forced to do more with less, have discovered that public libraries are an untapped resource and can assist in both the economic recovery and other strategic initiatives. More from Public Management.

Vancouver: Planner’s Dream, Middle Class Nightmare (Sep 2)
Vancouver, B.C., was recently ranked as the city with the most unaffordable housing in the English speaking world by Demographia’s annual survey. More from New Geography.

Serious Cost Cutters Only, Please (Sep 2)
This column is for those public leaders who are looking to make structural changes that will bend the cost curve of government down. More from Governing.

Rethinking Public Works (Sep 2)
Public works departments are focusing less on plugging current holes and more on building their future communities. More from American City & County.

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