Mayor Funk

Mayor Funk: Three Small Yet Powerful Ideas to Make Your City a Pedestrian Paradise

Posted on September 9, 2021

ELGL is proud to feature the writing and thinking of longtime member Mark Funkhouser. Here’s his latest post, and you can also sign up for his newsletter here or connect with him via email. For modern cities, the pathway to economic success just might be a sidewalk. When we talk about ways to supercharge a city’s economy, few...

Mayor Funk: The Smaller, Supercharged Workforce Our Cities Need

Posted on July 30, 2021

ELGL is proud to feature the writing and thinking of longtime member Mark Funkhouser. Here’s his latest post, and you can also sign up for his newsletter here or connect with him via email. As someone who’s advocated for local-government workers for 40 years, I’m going to tell you something you’d never expect me to say but that...

Mayor Funk: Is Your Local Government ‘Anti-Fragile?’

Posted on June 29, 2021

ELGL is proud to feature the writing and thinking of longtime member Mark Funkhouser. Here’s his latest post, and you can also sign up for his newsletter here or connect with him via email. In what felt like an eerie flashback, the scenes at the gas pumps following last month’s ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline resembled the...