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No defence for not paying market rates

By Peter Smith | 04 March 2014

Peter Smith argues ministers refusal to countenance higher pay for skilled experts means key post...

Horizontal integration is future of pensions reform

By Steven Simkins | 03 March 2014

The debate about the structural reform of the Local Government Pension Scheme is focussed on the ...

Thoughts on the elderly in society

03 March 2014

More than just houses, we need to build places that people want to live in

28 February 2014

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Whose public property is it anyway?

By Stephen Weigel | 27 February 2014

Stephen Weigel draws comparisons between Nixon's White House tapes and the decision to block publ...

Stop asking permission and just get on with it

By Heather Jameson | 27 February 2014

If local government faced a burning platform when funding started to disappear a few years ago, w...

Numbers don't begin to convey emotional toll

By David Hodge | 27 February 2014

More than 3,600 homes affected by flooding, nearly 1,300 people rescued by firefighters and more ...

We must overcome vested interests in unitarisation debate

By Jim Graham | 27 February 2014

Warwickshire CC has voted by a majority to do further work on the proposition to consider unitary...

The media storm moves on

By Michael Burton | 27 February 2014

At short notice last Thursday I found myself addressing the LGA councillors’ forum.

'Dunkirk spirit' battles water

26 February 2014