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Tuning into your community: Top reasons why your agency needs a podcast

Podcasts are more popular than ever. In fact, in the United States, podcasts attract more than...

Engaging businesses to strengthen your community

A prosperous business community epitomizes effective city leadership and fuels economic growth....

A billion dollars for local government cybersecurity—Will they ever see it?

Remember the fanfare upon learning of the passage of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment...

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Viewpoint: Economics should be a priority for ‘cities in transition’

By Alan Mallach — Planners need to focus less on regulation and more on the economic conditions affecting development

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Viewpoint: Localizing juvenile justice spurs national reforms

By Vincent Schiraldi — New York joins other states in transitioning from an institutional, centralized approach to local efforts

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Editor’s Viewpoint: Politics makes strange smells

This just in: Researchers at Washington-based Scientists Center for Dangerous Smells has determined that national elections are the nation’s largest generator of noxious gases.

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Viewpoint: Improving the wireless location identification bottleneck

By Bhavin Shah — Radio frequency pattern matching technology could make tracking suspects quicker and cheaper for law enforcement agencies

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Viewpoint: Five ways to bolster cybersecurity

By Paul Christman — Automation, education and reviews can help keep data secure

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Viewpoint: Creative problem solving (outside the box)

By Frederick Marks — Why limit your ability to solve a problem by boxing it? The only box is the one you have imposed on yourself. Once you realize there is no box, you are on your way to creative problem solving.

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Viewpoint: Know the ‘dos and don’ts’ of managing large property claims

By Alice Edwards — How you handle claims can affect your compensation and your ability to recover from a disaster.

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Editor’s Viewpoint: Freely speaking in all tongues

Free speech isn’t really free, it comes with a price. We are all facing a brave new free speech world since we crossed the border into the online netherworld.

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Viewpoint: Convention centers can be opportunities for economic development

By Roger Zampell — Governments can generate jobs, income by forming public-private partnerships to build convention center headquarters hotels.

Commentaries

Commentaries are contributed, non-commercial and educational articles that subject matter experts write for American City & County. If you would like to submit an exclusive commentary, click here to view our guidelines.

Highlights

Tuning into your community: Top reasons why your agency needs a podcast

Engaging businesses to strengthen your community

A billion dollars for local government cybersecurity—Will they ever see it?

Commentary

Viewpoint: Economics should be a priority for ‘cities in transition’

Commentary

Viewpoint: Localizing juvenile justice spurs national reforms

Commentary

Editor’s Viewpoint: Politics makes strange smells

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Viewpoint: Improving the wireless location identification bottleneck

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Viewpoint: Five ways to bolster cybersecurity

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Viewpoint: Creative problem solving (outside the box)

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Viewpoint: Know the ‘dos and don’ts’ of managing large property claims

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Editor’s Viewpoint: Freely speaking in all tongues

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Viewpoint: Convention centers can be opportunities for economic development

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Viewpoint: Define your touchstones to be a better manager

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