This document includes the City of Peoria’s guidelines to creating a fiscally healthy planning and management system.

This paper provides an overview of the state-local government sector, a review of the short-run impact of the 2007-09 recession on state and local governments

This research report presents findings from the Michigan Public Policy Survey, an ongoing survey research program targeted at the chief elected official and the chief...

A distinguished panel of ICMA members discusses how local governments are dealing creatively with the challenges of the current economic crisis.

Education, innovation are vital to recovery, according to top economic forecaster Diane Swonk.

The nation’s city finance officers report that the fiscal condition of the nation’s cities continues to weaken in 2010 as cities confront the effects of the economic downturn.