«What's been happening, for instance, in Baltimore in the last few weeks... has to do with the fact that
city governance did not deal with domestic issues.
Not exact matches
Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they
did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our
cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own
governance.
And by
governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival
city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought,
city administration, what to
do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the
city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they
did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.
PPS: Maybe much of what the government
did was basically just sitting around waiting for something to happen, which is fine, but I'm still curious how an early Village would evolve into a polis
city state, and what
governance issues they had to deal with from a human perspective, ie daily.
Its section on
governance is fatally flawed since it assumes the existence of legal authority to abolish the
City, which simply
does not exist.»
Responding to an email from a New York
City deputy mayor's chief of staff, then - REBNY President Steven Spinola wrote in March of 2015 that it
did not appear as if the state Senate majority leader at the time, Republican Dean Skelos, had put anything about school
governance in his budget bills.
The opinions expressed are those of the author and
do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute for State and Local
Governance at
City University of New York.
But it's also evident that the
city has benefitted from leadership that knows what it's
doing and a sound
governance structure that includes non-partisan elections and a unified
city and county government.
They have
done an excellent job of making sure the Library is on the path of good
governance and the highest standards of fiscal accountability, including opening up its books to
city auditors and starting construction on long - delayed branch renovations.
We already have a rich soup of internal
governance models, in portfolio
cities like NYC and Denver, and need to learn more about how they
do and don't work.
James A. Merrifield, IGP, CIP, manager of Records and Information
Governance (IG), participated in the panel discussion «Don't Let Your Information Undermine Cybersecurity» at Legaltech New York
City on February 2, 2016.