Yearly Archives: 2013

ICMA PSU Chapter: A Public Sector Startup

Today we highlight the good works of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) Portland State University (PSU) chapter which was founded this year. The chapter is another sign that professional local government management is in safe hands for years to come. While Portland is becoming known for start up companies in the private sector, ELGLRead… Read more »

Activist Supreme Court Judges Created Their Own Power

The Constitution Does Not Authorize Judicial Review Our teachers are wrong. The Constitution does not empower the Court to interpret the Constitution. The founders didn’t give that power to anyone. The Court decided that for itself. In 1803, six activist Supreme Court justices claimed for themselves the power of Judicial Review. It does not appearRead… Read more »

7 Marines Killed During Training Exercise – Plus the DorobekINSIDER’s 7 Stories

On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Transparency is essential for good government. Federal scientists play an important role in fulfilling that mandate by providing critical expertise to decision makers. So how open is your agency. Look at the report card. Click here for the full recap. Sequestration Reader The Washington Post: House hearing will examine decisions behindRead… Read more »

New Sensation with Emma Williams, Oregon Metro

Since ELGL is not a big fan of icebreakers and since we would rather not know what animal you want to be, this blog feature will serve as a means of introducing new members. While you won’t learn about their favorite animal, you will learn about their ideal Sunday morning, which dead people would theyRead… Read more »

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Celebrating Age UK’s Internet Champion – Jim, 92 The Big Idea Opportunities and challanges for citizen engagement… some thoughts social media customer services? let’s talk about it How to use content strategy for better journalism, not just publishing Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Online, the betterRead… Read more »

How Unconferences Work

Over the past year with two gatherings for Up to All of Us, we’ve continued to make the time in each excursion to build a common language we can all speak which helps set the expectations that we’re here to make ideas better and shared… not to cut them down. One can argue a lotRead… Read more »

Grading Government Transparency – Can Your Agency Scientists Tweet?

Transparency is essential for good government. Federal scientists play an important role in fulfilling that mandate by providing critical expertise to decision makers. The Union of Concerned Scientists new report, Grading Government Transparency, looks at the policies governing scientists’ communications and gives them a grade on their openness. Gretchen Goldman is an analyst at theRead… Read more »

GSA Cancels two more conferences, ICS’ are still under attack

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Cloud security service protects WordPress content – “Developer NorseCrop has launched a cloud security service designed to protect open-source content management systems that many SMBs use to run their Internet sites.” NorseCrop has Joomla and Drupal versions to follow as well.Read… Read more »