The #BlotterWar Every Wednesday local reporters for the cities of Lake Oswego, West Linn, and Tigard take to Twitter to compete in an epic showdown of small police calls. This weekly blotter war gives each reporter a chance to show off the silliest police calls from that week. Using the hashtag #BlotterWar each reporter competes … Continued
We’re back with the new “New Sensation” feature. We’ve updated the questions based on your feedback. You’ll now learn about the best YouTube videos on the web, read about gift ideas for the holiday season, and learn about the career accomplishments of our new members. As a reminder, we developed this feature to introduce you … Continued
A Non-Traditional MPA ELGL heard a rumor about the City of Lake Oswego creating some sort of local government university and naturally this innovative idea is something that we had to learn more about. It turns out that City Manager, Scott Lazenby, wanted to find a way to provide some additional training and education to … Continued
This is another installment of an ELGL original content series titled “Josh’s Job Search 2.0” by Josh Halladay. Halladay is sharing career advice that he is receiving in informational interviews. Vitals Randy Ealy Chief Administrative Officer, City of Beaverton Education: Willamette University, B.S. Economics; Portland State University, M.P.A. Connect: LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with The City of Beaverton: Twitter, … Continued
We’re back with the new “New Sensation” feature. We’ve updated the questions based on your feedback. You’ll now learn about the best YouTube videos on the web, read about gift ideas for the holiday season, and learn about the career accomplishments of our new members. As a reminder, we developed this feature to introduce you … Continued
Our organizational member the City of Beaverton would like to invite all interested people to attend a land use training on February 25th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The training, put on in partnership between the City’s Neighborhood Program and the Community Development Department, is an effort to help community members participate more effectively in the … Continued
We’re back with the new “New Sensation” feature. We’ve updated the questions based on your feedback. You’ll now learn about the best YouTube videos on the web, read about gift ideas for the holiday season, and learn about the career accomplishments of our new members. As a reminder, we developed this feature to introduce you … Continued
The Mission: Local Government’s New Normal is an original ELGL blog feature by contributor Dan Englund that provides an educational, supportive lens into the “new normal” of local government by examining local issues, solutions, and stories from compelling government professionals and their cities or counties. For the inaugural episode, we talked to Erik Kvarsten, City … Continued
Fifty Nifty Takeaways What do we hope to learn from this series? We hope you will gain a better understanding of the unique characteristics of local government in each state, we hope you will learn that there are others like you who are motivated to make a difference through the public sector, and we hope … Continued
Making a Dry Topic Wet Our speakers, Toby LaFrance and Casey Camors had the brilliant idea to turn the next Nitty Gritty session into a happy hour get together. By meeting at a local brew pub they want to take a potentially dry topic and make it wet. So, join us on May 7th at 5:30 … Continued
