Mark Funkhouser - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

Mark Funkhouser is the publisher of Governing magazine. He served as mayor of Kansas City, Mo., from 2007 to 2011. Prior to being elected mayor, Funkhouser was the city's auditor for 18 years and was honored in 2003 as a Governing Public Official of the Year. Before becoming publisher of Governing, he served as director of the Governing Institute Funkhouser is an internationally recognized auditing expert, author and teacher in public administration and its fiscal disciplines. He holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in public administration and sociology from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, an M.B.A. in accounting and finance from Tennessee State University and a master's degree in social work from West Virginia University.

Content

Total articles 167

• Rethinking budgeting: A transformative approach for state and local governments

  By Mark Funkhouser, Abhi Nemani, Nick Mastronardi| Route Fifty Verified State and local governments across the U.S. are facing a growing financial crisis, with every state except Florida facing a budget deficit by 2025. Rising costs, falling tax revenues, increasing demand for public services, and outdated infrastructure are putting intense pressure on budgets. COVID-19 made things worse, creating deficits and straining resources, which now threaten public services, delay infrastructure projects, and weaken trust in government.

  By Mark Funkhouser, Abhi Nemani, Nick Mastronardi · Route Fifty

  Jan. 29, 2025

• A recipe for getting the finances right

  By Mark Funkhouser| Route Fifty Verified To get the latest on state and local budgets, taxes and other financial matters delivered to your inbox twice a month, you can subscribe to Route Fifty's Public Finance here. In a 1957 speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower shared a lesson he’d learned in the Army that he said worked for the whole of government. “Plans are worthless,” the president said, “but planning is everything.”Like so much about Ike, there was a lightness to what he was saying that made the central paradox a little easier to digest.

  By Mark Funkhouser · Route Fifty

  Oct. 09, 2024

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