Chris Shorter - Starting From Scratch in Baltimore [City Hall Stories, Ep. 29]
It’s not often in local government that you have the chance to define an entirely new role for a City. This is exactly what Chris Shorter is...
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City Hall Stories
An exploration into the organizations that define our society, and the individuals that lead them.We speak to local government innovators to understand how our future cities, towns and count...
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20 of 29 episodesMayor Michael Hancock - Envision Big Things, Delegate the Rest [City Hall Stories, Ep. 28]
Mayor Michael Hancock is one of the US’ most known Mayors. Having served Denver as an elected official for almost two decades, Mayor Hancock...
Robert Clark - Project Save Our Streets [City Hall Stories, Ep. 27]
Robert Clark recently returned from an illustrious FBI career in Los Angeles back home to Ohio, specifically to lead the City of Columbus’ p...
Brandon del Pozo - The Good and Bad of Today's Policing [City Hall Stories, Ep. 26]
Chief Brandon del Pozo is one of the leading thinkers in Policing. Following a long career with the NYPD, Chief del Pozo moved north to lead...
Tommy Gonzalez - The Secret Key to Local Gov Excellence [City Hall Stories, Ep. 25]
Tommy Gonzalez has earned the right to be called an all-star City Manager. Now leading the City of El Paso, Texas, Tommy has also managed in...
Maurice Classen - Landing the City of Chicago's Plane [City Hall Stories, Ep. 24]
When it comes to local government, it doesn’t get any bigger than Maurice Classen. Most recently the Chief of Staff for Mayor Lightfoot in t...
Meredith Reynolds - Getting the Dream Job: Now What? [City Hall Stories, Ep. 23]
Meredith Reynolds is the Special Deputy City Manager for the iconic City of Long Beach, California. Handpicked in the middle of Covid to lea...
Bridget Brennan - Fighting Fentanyl, Block by Block [City Hall Stories, Ep. 22]
Bridget Brennan is the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York. Responsible for prosecuting major drug related crime that stre...
Greg Russ - How to House 370,000 New Yorkers [City Hall Stories, Ep. 21]
Today marks the second episode of our mini-series, inside New York City Hall. Greg Russ is the Chair and CEO of the largest public housing a...
Marcos Soler - Criminal Justice in NYC [City Hall Stories, Ep. 20]
This is the first episode on a mini-series, specifically focusing on the fascinating and unique local government institution of New York Cit...
Arnoldo Matus - Saving the Sinking City [City Hall Stories, Ep. 19]
Arnoldo Matus follows a rich group of Chief Resilience Officers we’ve had on the podcast - one of the most fascinating and critical roles Ci...
Jeanethe Falvey - Cities and Paper: the Match Made in Hell [City Hall Stories, Ep. 18]
Jeanethe Falvey is the Chief Digital Officer of the City of Boston, Massachusetts. Jeanethe has an incredible resume that speaks to a love o...
Eleni Myrivili - Fighting Heat With Fire [City Hall Stories, Ep. 17]
Eleni, or Lenio, Myrivili is currently the Chief Heat Officer of the City of Athens, Greece, and a leading European actor in the urban fight...
Theo Blackwell - The World's Smartest City? [City Hall Stories, Ep. 16]
Theo Blackwell is London’s first Chief Digital Officer. Responsible for carrying out Mayor Sadiq Khan’s vision of cementing London as the le...
Ginger Spencer - How to Manage the US' Fastest Growing City [City Hall Stories, Ep. 15]
Phoenix is the fastest growing City in the United States. Located in the searing hot Southwest state of Arizona, its growth faces severe con...
Stephanie Williams - Inclusivity is Not Food and Fun [City Hall Stories, Ep. 14]
The City of Worcester is the second largest city in the entirety of New England, just behind Boston. With that size comes an incredible dive...
Dave Amos - City Beautiful [City Hall Stories, Ep. 13]
Dave Amos runs City Beautiful, the most popular YouTube channel in the world focusing specifically on urban planning and design. Amassing ov...
Barbara Canales - I Thought I Could Change the World [City Hall Stories, Ep. 12]
South Texas has been the focal point of disaster for the past 18 months, and Nueces County is no different. Overseeing 250k residents, Judge...
Shannah Hayley - Let's Just Delete Facebook [City Hall Stories, Ep. 11]
If you think all a communications team for a city does is send out notices when a pipe bursts (as I admittedly did), then you couldn't be mo...
Jeff Cook - GovTech is Exploding [City Hall Stories, Ep. 10]
Behind every City, Village and State is a web of tools enabling staff to keep our lights on, our roads paved and our taxes safe. Many of the...