“America is and always will be about what’s next.”
 
That was the message Alex Castellanos, a CNN political commentator and DC corporate communications maven brought to an audience of some 150 TRSA members who attended the keynote address of TRSA’s recent Leadership & Legislative Conference in Washington, DC. And what’s next—at least in terms of government policy—is more likely to come from innovative leaders at the state and local level, or in private business, than Washington DC.
 
Castellanos, a former political campaign adviser who now represents corporate clients such as BP and McDonalds, offered ...