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SMB
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Aug 18, 2026
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The $3.7 Trillion Question Your Town Can't Answer
The engineers who graded American infrastructure this cycle put a $3.7 trillion price on the gap. They also admitted, in the same report, that a lot of the underlying data is missing.
SMB
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Aug 3, 2026
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3 min read
What Cities Should Do This Quarter to Cut Their Small-Business Failure Rate
Most economic development offices count how many businesses opened. Almost none count how many are still open three years later. That one reporting habit is why so much public money goes into ventures that were never going to make it.
SMB
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Jul 20, 2026
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3 min read
The High Cost of Counting: Why Manual Inventory Is a Leadership Failure
Somewhere in your operation right now, a capable person is spending an afternoon counting things by hand. That afternoon costs you more than their salary.
AI
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Jun 1, 2026
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3 min read
The Alpine Playbook: A City Manager's Field Guide to Knowing What You Own
When I became city manager of a bankrupt Texas town, the most expensive problem on my desk was a question no one could answer: what does this city own, and what shape is it in?
