The budget is, arguably, the most important policy document that a local government produces. The budget decides how the community’s resources will be allocated between services like public safety, health, mobility, education, and more—all of which are needed for a thriving community.| www.gfoa.org
Stop bowing to threats of right-wing violence—it’s time for the institutions of constitutional democracy to make their stand.| The Daily Beast
Gallup finds public faith in many societal institutions holding steady at or near their record lows. Majorities view small business and the military positively.| Gallup.com
Leadership in the 21st century requires candor, curiosity, and courage.| blog.simpleheart.org
Americans' confidence in two facets of the news media -- newspapers and television news -- has fallen to record low points.| Gallup.com
Fewer friends, relationships on the decline, delayed adulthood, trust at an all-time low, and many diseases of despair. The prognosis is not great.| novum.substack.com
I can't remember a time in my life when so many got so much wrong in their predictions about the future. Not in politics, not in culture, not in technology, not in economics, not in medicine, not anywhere. It's been a profoundly humbling phase of human history for both the experts that predict for a living and the masses trying to sort...| world.hey.com