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Sep 4, 2020 Podcast

The Last Dance

In which Patrick and Chad try to apply leadership lessons from the totally unrelated topic of championship-level basketball to city management based on the ESPN documentary "The Last Dance"...

leadership city management

Aug 28, 2020

New Feature: Tag, you're it!

A quick introduction to some new ways we're helping you organize, categorize, and analyze your sales tax data

marketplace providers feature friday

Aug 24, 2020 Roundup

Governor Abbott, local control, and the Texas Miracle

How committed is Texas to local control? And what would no college football mean for local communities?

public safety sales tax property tax

Aug 18, 2020 Podcast

Dataviz tips and dad jokes

We'll all be building our adopted budget books and sending them off to GFOA soon, so here's a few quick tips to maximize the impact of your data visualizations. Show me the Numbers by Stephe...

dataviz

Aug 12, 2020 Podcast

Sales Tax Gameday - August 2020

In this episode, Patrick and Chad take a rapid-fire first look at the August 2020 sales tax allocations across the state of Texas.

sales tax

Aug 10, 2020 Podcast

Kevin Shepherd on fiscal sustainability, infrastructure gaps, and the future of development

Kevin Shepherd, founder and CEO of Verdunity, joins us to talk about the sustainability gap most cities don't even know they have.VerdunityGo Cultivate! BlogGo Cultivate! Podcast (Apple, Spotify,...

fiscal health development patterns

Jul 29, 2020 Podcast

A city used these easy steps to have a productive council meeting and you won't believe what happened next!

OK, so maybe the title is a bit hyperbolic. But everyone's been there: stuck in council chambers, time ticking away, missing your favorite show or maybe even Thursday night football. Meanwhile, n...

council relations

Jul 21, 2020 Roundup

Covid-19’s impact on Texas sales tax, and how Marketplace Providers saved some cities

On the impact of Covid-19 and marketplace providers

covid19 marketplace providers

Jul 11, 2020 Podcast

What's Proptech, and how has Covid affected sales tax?

In this episode, we talk about Proptech and how the Covid closures have impacted sales tax collections across Texas.Why local governments should nurture the growth of ProptechMiami zoning map

proptech covid19 sales tax

May 26, 2020 Podcast

VC and ED

Why can't DoorDash, GrubHub, UberEats, etc, ever seem to make a profit? Or even play nicely with their restaurant partners and drivers? In this episode, we argue that a big reason is the distorti...

venture capital economic development

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