Effective Government

The enduring debate over the role of government in American life has long been distilled into a binary: should the state be an active...

For most Americans, the power lines crisscrossing their neighborhoods are an afterthought—noticed only when they fail or when a...

We’ve reinvented ourselves before, and we can do it again. The question isn’t whether we can—it’s whether we will.

Emergency medical services are the invisible backbone of our communities. When the worst happens—a heart attack, a car crash, a stroke—we...

History doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. The Roman Republic and the United States were both founded on the idea that no...

A nation’s strength is not just found in its history—it is built in its present. Throughout American history, the willingness to build...

Democracy isn’t a machine that runs on autopilot. It’s a fragile, living system that depends on institutions—those formal and informal...

In times of federal uncertainty, local governments bear an even greater responsibility to lead, innovate, and serve their citizens...

Resilience. It’s a word that’s been buzzing around our civic discourse a lot lately, and for good reason. In a world where the ground...

America has a problem with fragmentation. We see it in our health care system, in our schools, in our infrastructure planning—and,...

January 6, 2022 - One year ago, America and the world watched as a violent mob, whipped up by a desperate and defeated man, attacked the...

Mt Lebanon, Pennsylvania - January 4, 2022. Andrew Flynn, the incoming Commission President of Mt Lebanon, Pennsylvania made remarks...

Mt. Lebanon residents can now access real-time air quality data from air monitors in several locations all across town. The municipality...

2020 was a year that bruised and battered every one of us. Whether it came from the health crisis that has overwhelmed our nation, from...

Something’s gotta give. Globally, we’ve had eight of the top 10 warmest years on record since 1998, resulting in melted glaciers, causing...