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Five government programs won Innovations in American Government Awards from the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University and the Council for Excellence in Government last week...
...award, which the Ash Institute describes as the government equivalent of an Academy Award, grants $100,000 to each initiative for the dissemination and replication of its efforts in other states and localities...
CitiStat allows Mayor Martin O’Malley to track the performance of the city with hard numbers at his fingertips, said Assistant Director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation Cathleen M. Sarkis...
...winners is the Performance-based Standards (PbS) for Juvenile Correction and Detention Facilities program, which “collects information from juvenile facilities, tracks injuries, suicidal behaviors, assaults, time in isolation, and youth academic performance and make needed improvements,” according to a press release by the Ash Institute...
Reagan won that war not just with radical policies but also with a radically unashamed ideological challenge, the great 1982 Westminster speech predicting that communism would end up in the "ash heap of history" and the subsequent designation of the Soviet Union as the "evil empire." That won him the derision of Western sophisticates, intellectuals and defeatists of all kinds. It also won him the undying admiration of liberation heroes from Vaclav Havel to Natan Sharansky. Rarely does history render such decisive verdicts: Reagan was right, his critics were wrong. Less than a year after he left office, the Berlin...