New magazine to read

I have been reading my usual politics and came upon the magazine Governing which talks about the implementation of the policies we want in place. Is it in these details where good or bad is determined? Does better governance create people and populations who then can trust government with programs like health care, food safety,

Update: end of May. Since I found this have I looked at it?  No. But my trusted sources tell me that the best managed survey can be rigged if the state wants to put effort into that instead of governing correctly.

And like most easily accessible sites, the articles are a few steps away from actually providing real guidelines.

for example: this article about the last mile in providing services. Here is the rub:

...the breakdown point needs to be isolated sufficiently to devise a solution. This requires a careful reconstruction of the program pathway with metrics that expose drop-offs in participation. The broken link may be hiding in plain sight, or it may be a broad systemic gap.

I really do wish I knew how to do that and could see examples.  What kind of people do this work and what do the deliverables look like?  

Latest readings

So Mark. The gospel. Where does the purple robe come from ? And the boy running and losing the bed sheet?

There is more than we have seen is all I can see.

I have recently completed Equilateral. Disconcerting. One never knows if the Martians are real. But the pain from our beliefs is.

Beliefs. Understandings and science. Interpretations. How cloudy they can be

How cloudy they can all be.

So much to learn

Currently I am reading about scenarios, deadbeats and religion. (Separately, though a book on all three together would be interesting.)

Does a change in the human landscape give rise to a new religion and do eventually deadbeats, in this case the non-inspired, run the bureaucracy?

I am starting research on state employee relations. My questions are: What are the different ways that state employess can be treated?  What processes are there? Where are the problems across states?  How have those problems been solved?

I have a novel to finish.  Time travel and magic

And one to start. Genealogical.

Watching plants grow, cutting them and harvesting them as well as their decomposition is all happening in the back yard.

Is it always this way with everyone where there are more things to do, more things to read, more things to learn and enjoy than is possible?