Government Magazine

Illinois:
Overall--C+
Money--B
People--C
Infrastructure--C+
Information--C+

Louisiana:
Overall--B
Money--B+
People--B
Infrastructure--C+
Information--A-


At first, I was a little thrown off by the overall grades. Mostly because I think that Illinois has a better internal government than Louisiana. Of course, a large part of this perception is because of the hurricane, I know. But that's just because it exemplified the weakness of Louisiana's internal government. It was a mess. Nobody could really get a hold of things and it was just chaotic. But looking at the strengths and weaknesses, Illinois has one strength: Internal Coordination. So I guess that means the people who run the parts of the state are all on the same page? I'm not exactly sure. Louisiana on the other hand, has six strengths: Contracting/Purchasing; Training and Development; Budgeting for Experience; Managing for Performance; Program Evaluation; Electronic Government. OK, so again, I'm not entirely sure what all of those things mean but I'm guessing they're all good, since they're being evaluated in the report card thing.