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Today’s morning buzz is brought to you by Kylie Hicks, Budget Analyst for the City of Concord, CA. Connect with Kylie on LinkedIn and Twitter. What I’m Reading: Chase Darkness With Me by Billy Jensen What I’m Watching: Kids Baking Championship What I’m Listening to: Morning Cup of Murder podcast Someone who says something is “good enough...

Today’s morning buzz is brought to you by Jessica Chernich, Management Analyst for the Village of Beach Park, IL. Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn and Twitter. What I’m Reading: The Sun and Her Flowers, Rupi Kaur What I’m Watching: Euphoria What I’m Listening to: Ocean Eyes, Billie Eilish There is no shortage of qualified women...

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Allyson Brunette, owner of Allyson Brunette Consulting, a community engagement firm based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Connect with her on LinkedIn. What I’m Reading: I just finished Out of Office – the Big Problem and the Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel What...

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Shane Stone. Connect with him on Twitter and LinkedIn What I'm Listening to: Jai Wolf's "The Cure to Loneliness" album What I Read Recently: "Hyperfocus" by Chris Bailey What I'm Watching: Unapologetically re-watching "How I Met Your Mother" We have all been down an internet rabbit hole before. You start off on the Wikipedia page...

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Patrick Mohorcic. Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn What I’m Reading: The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple What I’m Watching: Seinfeld  What I’m Listening to: Going to the County by Caamp Over these past several months, the ELGL community has focused on...

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Patrick McDonnell, Senior Product Manager for the Austin Transportation Department, Data & Technology Services Team. Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn and Twitter. What I’m reading: The Cryptopians by Laura Shin What I’m watching: Severance What I’m listening to: Orion Sun At the end of podcast #478 The 2021 GovieLovies, the question was asked, “What’s one thing...

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Joe Warren, Assistant City Manager, Atchison, KS.  Connect with Joe on LinkedIn. What I’m reading: Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity, by Charles Marohn What I’m watching: My kids grow up too darn fast. What I’m listening to: My wife. What is servant leadership? Is it not...

We asked councilors, city managers, the Polco team, and other leaders what they love about local government. Here’s what they had to say...

Mary Elise Conzelmann's ELGL Morning Buzz - Abbreviations, also known as acronyms and initialisms, are everywhere! As government workers, we know they are overused in our profession. Multiply an abbreviation mentality by the millions of government workers in federal, state and local entities, and you end up with “alphabet soup.”  

Today’s Morning Buzz is by John J. Metro, City Manager for the City of Jersey City, New Jersey. Connect with John on Twitter or Linkedin. What I’m Reading:  A History of Wild Places What I’m Watching: Ozark What I’m Listening To: The Dave Chang Show Podcast As #localgov leaders, we recognize the arts as a community incubator that warrants the investment...

Today's Morning Buzz is by Kelly Moore. Connect with her on LinkedIn. My sister is a world traveler. She also tells great stories. She recently told me about a hike that she went on in Spain. I should mention here that she goes into everything with no preconceived ideas— just some light internet research and...

Today's Morning Buzz is by Kirsten Wyatt, the ELGL Co-founder and Executive Director. Connect with Kirsten on LinkedIn and Twitter. What I'm Reading: The American Agent, Maisie Dobbs #15 What I'm Watching: Snowpiercer What I'm Listening To: just finished Sweet Bobby I knew I wanted to write today's Morning Buzz all about ELGL's new membership...

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Lacey Dykgraaf, Community Engagement Manager for the City of Newberg. Connect with Lacey on LinkedIn or Twitter. What I’m Reading: Embracing my escapism theme, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas What I’m Watching: Unprompted, I made my fiancé listen to my impromptu TED Talk on morality...

Today’s Buzz is by Morning Buzzer Kim Nakahodo – connect with her on LinkedIn & Twitter! What I’m Watching: With the kiddos:  The Book of Boba Fett   Without the kiddos:  Ozark What I’m Reading: The Cornbread Mafia by James Higdon What I’m Listening To: KCUR; GovLove; Hidden Brain There is an interesting phenomenon that I...

Today's Morning Buzz is by Jenny Kosek, Economic Development Specialist at City of West Allis, WIS. Connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn. What I'm Reading: Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut What I'm Watching: Succession season 2 (I'm behind!) What I'm Listening To: Here and Now Writing an excellent, effective, inclusive job post isn’t...

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Danielle Rogers, Community Marketing Manager for the City of Newton, Iowa. Connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter. Listening To: We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle Reading: Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown Watching: The Great Pottery Throw Down on HBO Max I come to you this...