Katherine Barrett

New York

Principals: Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene. A husband and wife team who research, write about, and analyze state and local governments. https://t.co/CZb6zqi9G3

Articles

Fraud: Can It Ever Really Be Settled?

Oct 16, 2024 | mondaq.com | Katherine Barrett |Ellie Steele |Alexa Day

What happens if parties settle a fraud claim and then the claimant seeks to re-open the litigation? Answering this question exposes the tension between the principle that "fraud unravels all" and the strong public policy (and private interest) in the finality of settlement agreements. A series of cases have grappled with these competing considerations with varying outcomes.
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Jun 17, 2024 | route-fifty.com | Katherine Barrett |Richard Greene |Peter Harkness

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Emergency alert: States confront EMS shortages

Apr 8, 2024 | route-fifty.com | Katherine Barrett |Richard Greene

A bipartisan group of Minnesota legislators declared an “EMS emergency” in late February and asked for an infusion of $120 million simply “to buy some time and address short-term funding challenges,” in the words of Dylan Ferguson, executive director of the Minnesota Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board. In a supplemental budget released last month, however, the governor proposed closer to $16 million.
How trusted are state and local governments?

Feb 14, 2024 | route-fifty.com | Katherine Barrett |Richard Greene

This article is the first in a two-part series about trust in state and local government. The second part can be found here. In addition, the Route Fifty staff will be exploring this issue throughout 2024. You will be able to find coverage on it here. Let’s say you came down with a bad case of the flu. Would you tell all your friends and colleagues that you were healthy as could be—because you didn’t have pneumonia? Probably not.
Mental health funding is fast becoming “the bipartisan issue of our time”

Dec 13, 2023 | route-fifty.com | Katherine Barrett |Richard Greene

It’s widely acknowledged that there’s a desperate need for improved and expanded mental health services across the country—so much so that this is one of the few issues that appears to be gaining traction in both red and blue states. Significant investments have been made in recent months in bright red Montana and Texas and in deep blue California and New York. “We’re seeing record breaking investments across multiple states.
Apprenticeship programs are growing as the public sector faces workforce shortages

Nov 20, 2023 | route-fifty.com | Katherine Barrett |Richard Greene

While public sector apprenticeships have long flourished in other countries like Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and Australia, the vast majority of U.S. cities, counties and states have done little in the past to promote this kind of formal job training approach for their own employees. But registered apprenticeships are finally beginning to gain traction in state and local governments.