Each year, Governing hosts an awards banquet in Washington to honor individual state and local government officials for outstanding accomplishment. Our Public Officials of the Year are elected, appointed and career officials from any branch of state or local government who are nominated by Governing's readers and selected by our editors. This is an invitation-only event. Awardees will be profiled in the November issue of Governing magazine. Vi...

Join Governing this September as we host our annual Cost of Government Summit in the nation's capital. This important summit will bring together senior policy leaders, influential thinkers and practitioners to discuss the biggest issues in public finance, to share insights and formulate new strategies for successfully meeting the challenges facing state and local government.Cost of Government 2014 will examine the following themes: As the econ...