Dec 18, 2025

As mayor of Baltimore and then governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley used transparency and statistics to drive his city and state forward into the Information Age. And then he  — literally — wrote the book on the subject. 

His conclusion after more than a decade in public office? “We live in a time of enormous...

Nov 26, 2025

This special episode was recorded live at The Philadelphia Citizen’s eighth annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival presented by Comcast NBCUniversal. Our hosts, former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Citizen Media Group President and CEO Larry Platt were joined on stage by...

Oct 30, 2025

“I don’t care if you live in urban America or rural America, everyone wants the same thing,” Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb said on the latest episode of How To Really Run A City. “They want a job they can get to in 15 minutes, they want a hospital or pharmacy within 15 minutes, they want a park or a grocery store...

Oct 10, 2025

On this episode of How To Really Run A City, innovation in cities takes a backseat to a more pressing question: How do we find our way back to recognizing the humanity in one another?

Our guest: Joe Walsh, a former Representative from Illinois. He was a self-described Tea Party arsonist, right-wing radio provocateur and...

Sep 25, 2025

When Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan took office in 2013, his city had just filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. 

Today, business is booming, crime has fallen to a 60-year low and it’s no understatement to say that Detroit is back.

Mayor Duggan, now running for governor of his state as an Independent,...