News & Exclusives

Five Trends of Smart Cities of the Future

Posted on December 21, 2018

This guest blog is by Aeron Glemann. Aeron's a former Facebook engineering manager and UrbanLeap’s first engineer hire. It’s been an eye-opening experience since joining UrbanLeap a little over 4 months ago. The UrbanLeap platform allows cities and local governments to easily and accurately run small-scale experiments in order to find solutions to their large-scale...

GovLove Live Recipes

Posted on December 17, 2018

On Thursday, December 20 at 6:00 PST, we're taping the year-end GovLove episode, including the highly anticipated "GovieLovie" awards for the top episodes of the year. In 2018 we released 72 episodes, and we had 101 guests come on the podcast. We'll stream the taping on Facebook LIVE from Oregon, Missouri, and North Carolina, and...

I Have to Ask: Make Local Government Sexy Again

Posted on December 17, 2018

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week, Darrin Wilson, Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University, shares his thoughts on building a talented local government workforce. Sign up to be a guest columnist for this series. As a faculty member at Northern Kentucky University,...

Beware: Culture Vultures

Posted on December 14, 2018

Right Now with Stacy Schweikhart (LinkedIn/Twitter) What I’m reading: My list and checking it twice What I’m watching: Old SNL skits - my middle-school sons just discovered them and I'm laughing as hard at them now as I did when they first aired. What I’m listening to: All I Want for Christmas is a Real Good Tan...

…Because You Can’t be What You Don’t See

Posted on December 12, 2018

This article is a guest post by Christine Edwards, Community Relations Coordinator at Mecklenburg Couty. Christine is a member of the ELGL Diversity Dashboard team as well as President of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators (NFBPA) Southern Piedmont Chapter and NFBPA National Committee Member for Marketing & Branding. Christine will lead the "Chat...