ORANGE COUNTY IN BANKRUPTCY: Tax-Hike Foes Say Report Gives Them New Ammunition – Los Angeles…

A much-anticipated report on ways to cut Orange County’s budget and increase revenue in its fiscal crisis will give new ammunition to opponents of a tax increase, according to a member of the influential Lincoln Club, who was briefed Tuesday on its contents. The report by the Reason Foundation, scheduled…

Community Transformation Starts With The Mall | National Association of Counties

Richland Renaissance will make a mall the place to be for Richland County, S.C. services, while avoiding blight that comes with dying shopping centers  When Richland County, S.C. officials went shopping for a new place to provide core government services, they settled on what many saw as the unlikeliest location…

Artificial Intelligence, Workforce Systems, and National Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century

Artificial intelligence is transforming the productive capacity of modern societies. Nations capable of integrating advanced computational systems, machine learning technologies, and robotics into economic and administrative structures will experience unprecedented gains in productivity and strategic capability (Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2014; Acemoglu and Restrepo 2020). Conversely, societies whose institutions remain misaligned…