April 20, 2024

Talk, Talk, Talk: In Regions It Works

  SALT LAKE CITY – Matt Leighninger published an interesting piece this week on Tompaine.com about how local governments are finding new ways to get things done, particularly across jurisdictional boundaries. “Local leaders are recruiting large, diverse numbers of people and involving them in small, deliberative groups, big action forums and ongoing structures like neighborhood councils,” Leighninger wrote. Leighninger’s “deliberative groups” are the same thing as “convening groups,” my term for describing the new alliances of …

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