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Podcast: Local Politics is the Best Politics with Professor Emily Farris

Emily Farris Associate Professor Texas Christian University Bio | Twitter The best of American politics. Emily Farris, Associate Professor of Politics at Texas Christian University, joined the podcast to talk about teaching local politics. She shared how she includes local government in her courses and gets students to learn about what's going on in Fort...

NWWLA Oregon Cohort: Angie Welty

ELGL has partnered with the Northwest Women’s Leadership Academy, Oregon to support and promote their 2019 cohort! To support the program and efforts, ELGL has extended complimentary membership to the women participating in the NWWLA 2019 cohort. ELGL is profiling the NWWLA participants to grow their local government network, and showcase their resumes, work experiences, and...

Updating the City Charter

Today’s Morning Buzz is about the city charter, a document that acts like the constitution of a city by establishing and outlining the city's supreme authority over municipal affairs. A charter can only be adopted, amended, or repealed by a majority vote of a city's voters. Right Now with Daniel Soto (LinkedIn/Twitter) What I’m Listening...

We. Choose. This.

Right Now with Nick Smith (Linkedin/Twitter) What I’m watching: Lately I've been watching a lot of a show called "Monster Factory" where two brothers try to make the ugliest creations they can in video games. It is hi-lar-ious. (Though be advised, there's some language in there that you might not want your boss/kids to walk...

Member Profile: Tabitha Clark

Tabitha Clark Communications Manager, City of Perry LinkedIn I Twitter I Email If you had to live in a different city, what city would you choose? Atlanta, Georgia Storytelling or innovation? Which is the most overused word in local government? Innovation What year would the most important in your life? Why? 2019 - I earned...

Get Creative! Take a SIP Before You Storm

Photo by Rachael Gorjestani on Unsplash We need to SIP before we start ‘storming. By that I mean more Structured Individual Play (SIP) before brainstorming. In professional environments, we are entirely comfortable with brainstorming, which is a version of structured group play, but if I said “Take 30 minutes and have an experience for yourself. Take a...

Spotlight on Regional Procurement Collaboration: The Strategic Alliance for Volume Expenditures (S.A.V.E.)

Photo by Thomas Hawk In this series, staff from CoProcure break down the ins and outs of public purchasing. Local governments are collaborating on procurement to save public staff time and taxpayer dollars. Efforts like the NIGP Columbia Chapter’s ICP group and the Kansas City Regional Purchasing Cooperative help local agencies in a region share the administrative costs of purchasing and...

Podcast: Performance Auditing to Kansas City Mayor with Mark Funkhouser

Mark Funkhouser Former Kansas City Mayor President of Funkhouser & Associates Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter Creating good government and fiscal sustainability. Mark Funkhouser, President of Funkhouser & Associates, joined the podcast to talk about his career as an auditor, running for Kansas City Mayor, and more. He talked about navigating the Great Recession as...

I Started a New Job

Today's Buzz is brought to you by Dan Weinheimer. What I’m listening to – So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (cannot recommend enough!) What I’m reading – The Book of Beautiful Questions by Warren Berger I started a new job today… well yesterday by the time you’re reading this. This job, as City Manager...

NWWLA Oregon Cohort: Sasha Konell

ELGL has partnered with the Northwest Women’s Leadership Academy, Oregon to support and promote their 2019 cohort! To support the program and efforts, ELGL has extended complimentary membership to the women participating in the NWWLA 2019 cohort. ELGL is profiling the NWWLA participants to grow their local government network, and showcase their resumes, work experiences, and...

Prada or Nada: the Ethics of Fashion in Local Government

What I’m Watching: Younger - very late to this party but I LOVE Sutton Foster, so am fully in support of this maybe too on the nose critique of millennial culture vs. the world. What I’m Reading: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare - a really moving peek into life in modern...

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I Have to Ask: Restless Nights

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL Co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week, Gabe Reaume, City Manager for the City of Saginaw, Texas, writes about what keeps him up at night. I am not by any means a “worrier.” But, in my third year as a City Manager, I...

Guide to Buying Local Government Websites

The Guide to Buying Local Government Websites empowers government leaders to make holistic, intelligent decisions when it comes to procuring quality online services needed to best serve increasingly digitally-centered communities.

From Mission-Vision-Values to Why We Exist

Mike Skibbe (Twitter and LinkedIn) What I’m Watching: Pocoyo (a delight of a kid's show) What I’m Reading: Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami What I’m Listening To: Still Untitled, the Adam Savage Project Why does your department exist? It's not an existential crisis. It's Friday and nobody has time for an existential crisis at work. Mission,...

Podcast: Advocating for Public Records with Ginger McCall

Ginger McCall Former Public Records Advocate State of Oregon LinkedIn | Twitter Improving transparency in government. Ginger McCall, the former Oregon Public Records Advocate, joined the podcast to talk about her time in the State of Oregon and the importance of providing transparency to the public. She discussed the events that led to her resignation...

Meet Adina Goldstein: ELGL’s Willamette University Intern

Hi! My name is Adina Goldstein and I am a sophomore at Willamette University. My hobbies are writing fiction, improv, and playing Dungeons and Dragons. I was born and raised all over the Bay Area California. I grew up in Berkeley and went to high school in San Francisco. I hope to major in English...

Public Art: It Belongs Everywhere!

Photo by Jun Akiyama: dirtland with Simone Key, Crissy Nelson, Peg Posnick, Toby Hankin This post is brought to you by Ali Rhodes as part of ELGL's "Creative Community" learning series about the role of arts and culture in local government. Sign up to guest blog about your local government experiences with creative placemaking here...

Schedule as a Workplace Perk

Today's Morning Buzz is by Brandi Leos, City of Tigard, Oregon (LinkedIn, Twitter) What I’m Watching: The Presidential Primary Debate What I’m Reading: in between books but planning to start Winners Take All soon Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work a few places and with a lot of employees. I’ve also had the chance to...

ELGL & UrbanLeap announce the 2020 Innovation Cohort Participants

ELGL’s Innovation Cohort programs provide cities with the opportunity to tap into the collective energy and intelligence of the ELGL network with the assistance of the UrbanLeap platform. Members form a virtual, across-the-country Innovation Cohort to learn about new solutions, test them and learn from the experiences, and then figure out how to put those...