Scott Cordes, St. Paul’s Director of Innovation and Budget, discusses how the Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities initiative is working in St. Paul, Minnesota. Read more in Twin Cities Pioneer Press.

Through the What Works Cities Initiative, GPL Assistant Director Jen North and Senior Advisor Greg Wass worked with the city of St. Paul, Minnesota to engage vendors, increase the number of vendor responses, and improve competition. Read more about how the city is building on these efforts to increase its vendor diversity and better understand why it wasn’t adequately reaching small, women- or minority-owned businesses. Read more.

"Potholes not only tell you about the state of your infrastructure, they also tell you about the nature of participation in your city." GPL Fellow Elijah de la Campa spoke about the GPL's Boston, MA Asphalt Resurfacing project and some of the surprising discoveries he made on Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences podcast, ...

In a post for GovTech, Stephen Goldsmith describes how the GPL helped Boston's Department of Public Works Construction Management Division implement results-driven contracting to increase the overall quality of repaving efforts, to improve communication and transparency with vendors, and to enhance the articulation and measurement of outcomes crucial to the asphalt resurfacing process....