Aug 8, 2018
Theodore Roosevelt doesn't have a presidential library. Yet.
A nonprofit foundation in North Dakota, with the help of technologists, historians and Gov. Doug Burgum, is working to correct that oversight.
When Burgum talks about public service, he sounds a lot like Roosevelt, who said, "It is not the critic who counts....
Aug 1, 2018
It is the way things have always been done in Dayton. Neighbors talk to each other over fences and on porches about what they are really thinking about.
Tapping into that dynamic helped Nan Whaley become mayor in 2013. Even after she won, she still keeps in touch with the Ohio city’s 140,000 residents through "porch...
Jul 25, 2018
Mayor Steve Benjamin is no stranger to having difficult conversations on a public scale. He got his start in politics as a student activist seeking to bring the Confederate flag down from the South Carolina statehouse.
In his new role as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, he speaks with and for 1,500 mayors...
Jul 18, 2018
Kristen Cox knows about constraints. After the fiscal crisis, the Executive Director of the Utah Office of Management and Budget applied the same kind of fiscal stress tests the Federal Reserve uses on banks to do a reality check on the State of Utah’s books. It surfaced both the state’s strengths...
Jul 11, 2018
Mayor Acquanetta Warren credits her father for her big dreams. "You've been to the moon," he used to say. There was some truth to that.
Acquanetta Warren's election in 2010 was historic. She is Fontana, Calif.'s first female and first African-American mayor. Her inspiration for public service is actually rooted in...