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Los Angeles, California 2018 Pop Up Conference

Los Angeles Pop Up Conference Serving our community can take many different shapes. In LA, we are addressing pressing issues and hearing from folks who have "Chosen Their Own Adventure" and are leading the way in their respective roles.  How will you choose your own adventure? The Los Angeles #ELGLPopUps event is hosted at the...

News & Exclusives

We provide timely, relevant, real, and useful content written by our members, partners, and staff because we believe that storytelling is the best way to share our local government experiences and learn from our ELGL friends. Read the most recent articles or search by category below. Interested in writing for us? Learn more about contributing...

How to Write an Irresistible Press Release AND Get It Noticed

OCTOBER 24, 2016 BY ELGL Angelica Wedell brings more than eight years of experience in multimedia communications to her role as marketing and business development coordinator and editor-in-chief of The Civil Review at National Research Center, Inc (NRC).   By Angelica Wedell – LinkedIn, Twitter, Website The matters of local government are solid, hard news to local media outlets.  City plans,...

Planning, Developing, and Implementing a Citizens Academy

APRIL 15, 2015 BY ELGL Welcome to the first post in a series about creating a citizens’ academy by Dallas, OR administrative intern Daniel Adatto.  In this series, he will walk you through how he created Dallas’ first citizens’ academy including the important research and academy elements he implemented. Planning, Developing, and Implementing a Citizens Academy During my...

The Rest of the Story on Route Fifty with Michael Grass

APRIL 10, 2015 BY ELGL Introducing Route Fifty ELGL loves local government news. That’s one of the reasons we’re excited that Government Executive is re-launching its state and local channel as Route Fifty. In relaunching the channel, Government Executive is devoting more resources to covering local government news. We interviewed Michael Grass, executive editor of Atlantic Media’s Route Fifty, who...

Trending Now! Finalist: City of Kansas City, MO

JUNE 29, 2016 BY ELGL Let’s meet our Trending Now! finalists. We started with the City of Hamilton, OH, today we visit Kansas City, MO.  Hat tip to Mark Van Baale for coordinating the city’s response. The 4-1-1 on Kansas City, MO KC Biz Journal: Two metro cities make it to final four in social media competition From Mayor Sly James to...

KS: Michael Wilkes, City of Olathe, City Manager

KS: Michael Wilkes, City of Olathe, City Manager MARCH 31, 2014 BY ELGL 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...

National Day of Civic Hacking is August 11

ELGL and Code for America are working together to promote the National Day of Civic Hacking on August 11! Learn more about this exciting day where civic leaders will work to tackle some of local governments most difficult challenges. This guest post is by ELGL member Christopher Whitaker. Government works best when it’s government by...

I Have to Ask: Potholes, Parking, and Public Safety

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week Kathy Nyland writes how Seattle Councilor Sally Bagshaw influenced her career path. Hear more from Kathy on this GovLove episode - Podcast: Broadening Neighborhood Engagement. People often ask me about my path into government. I am the...

Public Meetings are Boring

Welcome to the blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" about the important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Megan Asikainen, CivicClerk You are likely thrilled to see residents filing into your meeting room to observe and take part in public discussions on topics that will impact...

Future of Public Hearings

Travis Parker, City of Lakewood Colorado Planning Director, writes about how the role of technology played in changing the public hearing process in Lakewood.   Throughout our country the business of local government is conducted in public hearings. Councils, boards and commissions sit behind a dais on a weeknight and listen to public comment before deliberating...

Relational Local Government

Right Now with Kevin Teater What I'm listening to: the Folk Pop station on Spotify What I'm reading: 'Walkable City - How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time' by Jeff Speck What I'm watching: Parks and Rec (Season 2: I got a very late start). The part where Mark, the planner, was...

Humanism in Local Government

Kyle Knott, LinkedIn & Twitter, has worked at Village of Mukwonago, Wisconsin, Elk Grove Township, Illinois, and DeKalb County Business Incubator.  My first post was about the concept of professionalism. I wanted to convey that, at its core, professionalism calls for an abandonment of individuality to conform to a culture. This culture stresses the necessity of responsibility, accountability, and...

Human-Centered Public Service Design

Right Now w/ Rebecca Woodbury (LinkedIn / Twitter) What I’m Listening to – WORLD CUP What I’m Watching – WORLD CUP What I’m Doing – WORLD CUP What I’m Thinking About – WORLD CUP A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of speaking on a panel called Human-Centered Public Service Design & How We Get There for SF Design Week. It was...

I Have to Ask: Creating a Policy Lab

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week Ben Clark, Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of Oregon, writes about the potential of a Lane County-PPPM Policy Lab. For more info, read the policy lab report by Katie Fields, Keith Frazee, Darian Lightfoot, and Grace...

I Have to Ask: The City Newsletter

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week Jordan Imlah, City of Milwaukie, Oregon Public Affairs Specialist, takes on the hotly debated topic of digital newsletter versus paper newsletter. One of the most enigmatic, yet seemingly straightforward, city communication tools is the newsletter. Most...

ELGL Born and Bred

ELGL continues to build a partnership with the League of Oregon Cities (LOC). Executive Director Mike Cully is committed to strengthening local government in Oregon and partnering with ELGL. He remarked about ELGL, Another example of collaboration is really a grassroots alignment with an organization founded on the principal of recognizing, promoting and helping the...

#ELGL18 #FriYay Afternoon

Down the stretch we come at #ELGL18.... Here's the Friday afternoon schedule..... Follow the action on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.... Join the members only conversation in our Facebook group. 1:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions Beyond Employee Engagement The City of Aurora, Colorado and the City of Hillsboro, Oregon both dove into addressing how to become an employer...

#ELGL18 Friday Morning

It's Friday morning at #ELGL18! Let's rock.... 8:00 a.m. Welcome & Event Day Overview Winner Alert!!!! Building a Smarter Sewer System to Reduce Overflows in Greater Cincinnati  At a Glance: To keep sewage mixed with stormwater out of waterways during rain events, Metropolitan Sewer District built a smarter sewer system that costs less than any other solution. Using...

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