The City of Lake Oswego is pleased to announce that applications are being accepted for this year’s Kincaid Memorial Public Administration Internship. The internship is a great opportunity for a graduate student in Public Administration interested in gaining experience and exposure to local government management. The individual selected for the internship will spend approximately threeRead… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
So I recently I upgraded to Windows 8 and while I’m sure that the software is a big improvement over XP, which is what I had on this particular machine, it became a source of much frustration for me. It all started when I ran Microsoft’s compatibility utility to see where I stood with myRead… Read more »
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 »
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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 »
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 »
Yesterday was the opening day of WATERCON 2013 in Springfield, Ill. – a four-day event focusing on all things water in Illinois. We were told yesterday at the business meeting that 1,400 people had registered for the conference; this number was 10% over last year’s registration. It’s not surprising the number is growing – theRead… Read more »