By Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene | Governing
After about a quarter of a century covering government management as journalists, we’re going to don a prognosticator’s cap — at least temporarily. Based on our reporting, what follows are our predictions for six management challenges that we think will be of high-level importance for states and localities over the course of this year. None of the trends represent spanking new issues. In our opinion, though, all of them will escalate in significance as the months (and possibly years) pass.