August 1, 2025 | In the News
By Marc Pfeiffer (Published August 1, 2025 at ICMA.org) As a local government leader, technology affects more than just your internal operations. Many tech issues directly impact your residents and need your attention. Big Picture Issues Technology touches many...
August 1, 2025 | In the News
The Kansas City transit agency has installed narrow “leaning benches” at busy bus stops downtown and touted them as an accessible amenity. But riders and experts disagree and say they’re made to make people uncomfortable. Bus riders at the busy 12th and...
July 31, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Read Report R/ECON’s economic forecast for New Jersey as of mid-2025 continues to show a slowing trajectory. Annual GDP growth is projected at just 0.5% for 2025, significantly lower than in prior forecasts and markedly below the national rate of 1.5%. Growth will...
July 31, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Digital Twin or Digital Kin: Misunderstandings and Myths about Urban Simulation, and Directions for Change Abstract Using three case studies from the United States and Australia, this article explores the conditions required to make urban digital twin projects...
July 24, 2025 | Undergraduate Public Policy Student Spotlights
Pursuing a college education and the American dream, Rafael Escalante departed the embattled South American nation and made his way to New Jersey Rafael Escalante escaped politically motivated persecution as a teenager in Venezuela to find his place – and a brighter...
July 21, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Do perceptions of speeding act as a barrier to automated speed enforcement in the United States? Highlights Many American adults do not believe speeding is particularly dangerous. Yet 65% of respondents believe their community should vote for automated speed...
July 18, 2025 | In the News
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy visited Maplecrest Park in Maplewood today to sign a bill — A4765/S4146 — requiring that both driver’s education curriculum and the driver’s examination include information about a driver’s responsibilities when approaching a pedestrian...
July 17, 2025 | In the News
Federal funding to support hazard mitigation will safeguard more lives By Jeanne Herb, Senior Policy Fellow All Americans’ thoughts and prayers go out to all the families in central Texas affected by the catastrophic flooding that claimed the lives of 109 people,...
July 11, 2025 | In the News
By Linda Stamato Long after he became a household name in journalism, Bill Moyers often found quiet company in Morristown’s Burnham Park, seated beside the bronze likeness of Thomas Paine. To Moyers, Paine wasn’t just a revolutionary thinker—he was America’s first...
July 10, 2025 | In the News
Our planning frameworks don’t yet reflect the realities we now face Justin Auciello (MCRP ’05) | July 10, 2025 | Opinion, Energy & Environment When systems fail — when the power is out, cell towers are down, and trust in institutions is frayed — what...
July 8, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
GPS-based street-view greenspace exposure and wearable assessed physical activity in a prospective cohort of US women Abstract Background Increasing evidence positively links greenspace and physical activity (PA). However, most studies use measures of greenspace, such...
