Want to sell to a city or state? Here’s a quick way to get started!

Most companies, upon deciding to pursue opportunities with a specific governmental entity, develop a “Go-To-Market” strategy.  One of the more interesting new strategies that allows companies to capture the attention of public officials today is to participate in a pilot or demonstration project.  This is becoming extremely common…and it now appears to be a major […]

Higher costs, more disasters looming with absence of infrastructure spending

Infrastructure failures are always costly, dangerous and often disastrous. They are occurring all too often these days and are simply symptomatic of the overall state of the country’s infrastructure.

Higher costs, more disasters looming with absence of infrastructure spending

Infrastructure failures are always costly, dangerous and often disastrous. They are occurring all too often these days and are simply symptomatic of the overall state of the country’s infrastructure. Although the year is young, 2017 has already brought numerous major infrastructures failures in many of the states. California has been hit particularly hard by damages […]

Cyber threats impact everyone! Is it time for citizens and taxpayers to get more involved?

Cyber stalkers present serious threats to businesses, governmental entities and organizations of all types. The ever-present danger is said to be increasing at an alarming pace, and because the aftermath of any cyberattack is so devastating and costly, technology changes are occurring at a dizzying pace. In spite of that, most citizens do not believe […]

It is not easy to be a city leader!

Few individuals are clamoring to become the next mayor of a major city in the U.S.  It is, without a doubt, one of the hardest jobs in the country. Funding is such a concern that positive economic projections are quickly overshadowed by the reality that state and federal funding assistance is being radically reduced or […]

Interested in construction projects? Look to city leaders who are desperate for affordable housing projects!

City leaders have lots of priorities, but perhaps none more critical than affordable housing! Teachers, medical personnel, public safety officers, first responders and others need to be able to live downtown, but because urban real estate is so expensive, it is almost impossible for them to find affordable housing. City leaders know they must change […]

Leading the way for innovative and visionary action…and it’s coming from DC??

If there’s a manual anywhere on public-private partnerships (P3s/PPPs), it may have been written in Washington, D.C.  But, not, as one might suspect, by lawmakers in the halls of the U.S. Congress.  The manual could have been written by some visionary locally elected leaders of the Council of the District of Columbia. Many local government […]