American City & County Magazine Highlights Knope of the Week What is the Knope of the Week? It’s ELGL’s way of recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have excelled in promoting the public sector. Recipients may come from the public or private sector and are nominated by ELGL members. Recipients receive an incredible amount of recognition … Continued
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKBcvsByt6M If you registered for the #ELGL13, you were asked to answer a series of probing questions. You might have thought “what a great idea”, or “what a terrible waste of time”. If you fall into the latter category, you probably aren’t reading this post and we might have put a hex on you. … 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 … Continued
ELGL would like to welcome its first international member, Cindy Fu! Cindy is a graduate student in China and learned about ELGL from Bill Monahan, City Manager of Millwaukie. She was a teaching assistant for his class on Trends in US Urbanization at a university in Beijing. Of course when she learned about ELGL she had to become … Continued
The Story The Hillsboro Police Department began recruitment for a new police chief several weeks ago. In advertising for the position, they included a six minute recruitment video. Since then, the video has gone viral. Gawker first brought the video to the nation’s attention and BBC News has spread the video across the pond. Police … Continued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16LskNnMUPk What better way to learn about a new ELGL member than a series of extremely personal questions that may or may not be work related. That is our goal in the New Sensation feature. Whether it is learning about a person’s top accomplishments in the last 24 hours or learning about the inside … Continued
Meeting Agenda: Dr. Charles Heying, Brews to Bikes Attendees: Can I Bum a Ride to the Brews to Bikes Forum? RSVP: Brew to Bikes: Portland’s Artisan Economy Featuring Charles Heying Join ELGL in a lunch-and-learn session from Dr. Charles Heying, author of “Brew to Bikes: Portland’s Artisan Economy.” Dr. Heying will walk us through the elements of Portland’s … Continued
When Josh Gregor, the creator of “Josh’s Job Search”, landed a permanent job with the city of Portland, we launched a nationwide search for another unemployed person named Josh. It took a while but we have found our Josh. Josh Halladay will take the reigns of the feature and will hopefully be as successful as … Continued
American City & County Magazine Highlights Knope of the Week What is the Knope of the Week? It’s ELGL’s way of recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have excelled in promoting the public sector. Recipients may come from the public or private sector and are nominated by ELGL members. Recipients receive an incredible amount of recognition … Continued
The Best City Council Television Ad In Existence While viewing the video was funny and reading the commentary was interesting, ELGL felt it was our “life calling” to track down the creator of the video and tell him he is the greatest, most creative, innovative, smartest person ever. Then we also decided to run a few questions … Continued
