AccuWeather Data Used to
Measure Children’s Health Risks Researchers from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and USC are working
with AccuWeather experts to use environmental data to look for breakthroughs in
diseases like stroke, heart disease, lung cancer and asthma. READ MORE
AI-Generated Candidate Files to Run for Office in
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Arizona AG Investigates Governor
After ‘Pay to Play’ Accusation Attorney General Kris Mayes
has opened an investigation regarding the payment Gov. Katie Hobbs received
from a residential homes company after the state increased funding for the
organization. READ MORE
Arizona Lawmakers Bypass Hobbs’
Vetoes, Send Measures to Ballot One resolution would
eliminate most judicial re-elections, essentially giving judges lifetime
appointments. READ MORE
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Housing, Suggesting New Approach Proposed
legislation would allow for up to one-quarter of the state’s spending on
homeless housing, assistance and prevention programs to go toward sober living
environments. The bill would reverse a 2016 funding ban. READ MORE
Can L.A. Be Doing More for the Kids
Living on Skid Row? More than 200 children live on Skid
Row, a majority of which stay in the only homeless shelter in the neighborhood
that allows families. Advocates are urging the city to do more to help. READ MORE
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Cybersecurity, Deepfakes and the Human Risk of AI
Fraud AI-generated cyber attacks and deepfakes mean new risks and
new ways to fight them. "Human risk management" is a term to describe
how organizations train their staff to detect these evolving threats. READ MORE
Detroit Autonomous Delivery Pilot Will Begin With Food
Waste The Autonomous Robotic Pickup Platform, a project launching next
week in Detroit’s Transportation Innovation Zone, will start by testing small
sidewalk delivery bots to collect food waste for compost. READ MORE
Do Political Infighting and
Misleading Mailers Impact Voters? Friction
within the South Carolina Republican Party has led to hordes of aggressive and
accusatory campaign materials being sent out to voters. Candidates will now see
if their tactics pay off as residents go to the polls for the June 11
primary. READ MORE
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Findlay, Ohio, Schools Adopt
‘Time Gap’ System for Emergencies Findlay Schools are equipped with a biometric system that sounds alarms
and notifies the appropriate people of an incident and the location of where a
disturbance is happening, saving critical time. READ MORE
Florida Will Finally Clean Up Its
Hazardous Waste Dump With $62M Plan The
Petroleum Products Corporation Superfund site in
How Email Scammers Hit Arlington, Mass., Covered
Their Tracks Cyber criminals diverted four monthly payments
meant for a vendor involved with rebuilding the town’s high school, and they
carefully managed compromised employee email accounts to hide the fraud. READ MORE
How Oklahoma Is Training Its Workforce to Leverage AI
The state, working with Google, has launched a course
providing foundational AI skills training to residents. The offering, open to
10,000 people at a time, is designed to create an agile workforce. READ MORE
How the National Guard prepares
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advanced networking and communications tools to prepare military organizations
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Hurricanes Don’t Stop at the Coast Storms
that have devastated mountain communities and other inland regions are a
reminder to prepare. New development in areas that were once thought unlikely
to flood may be more susceptible as the climate heats up. READ MORE
Infrastructure
Requires Money. Tolls Are the Way. Two of the best alternatives for user-paid infrastructure are
toll roads and variable-fee express lanes. States with fast-growing populations
are embracing toll projects because they can't wait for federal funding, and
private capital is eager to invest. READ MORE
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Keep Your First Responders
In-The Know: Tools for Dependable Communication The more first responders know about a situation, the better decisions
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Local Government
Guide to Managing Grants This guide
takes a deep dive into six significant barriers to successful grant management
in local governments. It outlines best practices to address each and features
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Maine Will Achieve Carbon Neutrality
Before 2045 Goal The state Department of Environmental
Protection announced that it is 91 percent of the way toward meeting its carbon
neutrality target by 2045. But the state still has a way to go before reaching
its other climate goals. READ MORE
Making the Most of AI: How Agencies Can Get Their
Data Ready As government agencies consider the potential of
new AI technology across the enterprise, they keep coming up against the same
question: How do they prepare the data needed to deploy these solutions
successfully? READ MORE
Minnesota’s Amber Alerts Have Near
Perfect Record of Finding Children The
state’s system for finding missing children was implemented in 2002. Since
then,
N.Y. Congestion Pricing Reversal Hits
Transit in the Wallet As ridership continues to lag amid a
stubbornly slow recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, cities experiment with
free rides and micromobility to prove public transit’s worth in worsening
financial conditions. READ MORE
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State Governor's Hochul's Reversal on Congestion
Pricing Draws Blowback Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to pull
the plug on a congestion pricing plan for New York City was seen as a move
calculated for advantage in the November elections, but it hasn't made her many
new friends. READ MORE
Nonprofit Offers Free Cybersecurity Consulting to Public
Sector The Center for Internet Security’s Cybersecurity Advisory
Services Program is aimed at helping strengthen organizations that are involved
in elections, health care, education and utilities. READ MORE
One State Is Putting a Single Person
in Charge of Its Growth Strategy Michigan’s
first-in-the-nation chief growth officer is working to refresh the state’s
brand with help from partners whose survival depends on attracting more
workers. READ MORE
Opinion: Teach Human Intelligence Before Artificial
Intelligence Before students use AI tools to complete their
work, they should first develop their own HI (human intelligence) and
understand the purpose of education and the importance of ethical behavior and
personal integrity. READ MORE
Popular Wildfire App Highlights the Radio Encryption Dilemma Watch Duty, a wildfire-tracking app manned by
volunteers monitoring fire scanners, provides emergency information to the
public. As the app expands, so does debate about fire department scanner
traffic encryption. READ MORE
RapidSOS and Google Rolling Out RCS Tools for 911
Calls Thanks to Apple, rich communication services are in
the news, and now a new partnership could help spread those tools deeper into
the public safety space. RapidSOS is coming off a major funding round. READ MORE
San Diego Is Home to Nation’s Most
Polluted Beach The Surfrider Foundation found that
of the nation’s 10 most polluted beaches, three are in
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Skills-Based Hiring Is Hot, but
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and private employers are beginning to reap the benefits of this move, but
sweeping changes in state and federal policy and adoption of new technologies
are needed to make good on its promise. READ MORE
Social Security Can’t Be Fixed? State
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states have moved to reform their public pension plans, making tough choices
and frequently doing so with bipartisan support. Federal lawmakers should keep
these lessons in mind. READ MORE
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Some Lawmakers Seek to Address Existential Threats of
AI A handful of lawmakers say they plan to press the issue
of the threat to humans posed by generative artificial intelligence after a
recent bipartisan Senate report largely sidestepped the matter. READ MORE
Spring into Action when Disaster Strikes This
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Guide to Managing Grants To ensure
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States Should Think Beyond
Mobile Drivers' Licenses Other forms of
digital ID will also be important for serving constituents online and
preventing fraud. READ MORE
Strengthening
Digital Identity and Preventing Fraud Research shows people prefer online state agency interactions
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The Evolving Cyber Landscape: Insights from 2024
Reports Over the past month, the Verizon Data Breach
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Weatherbeaten Maine
Seeks More Resilient Infrastructure A new commission appointed by Maine Gov. Janet Mills will
explore ways to make state infrastructure more resilient to climate change. READ MORE
What Successful City Parks Can Do They
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Which Cities Would
Benefit Most from Converting Offices Into Housing? Local governments want to see empty and underused offices
converted to housing, but that’s often difficult. An examination of office and
housing markets reveals the specific cities where this approach is most
promising. READ MORE
Why 1,000 Homicides in St. Louis
Remain Unsolved This multipart investigation by St.
Louis Public Radio, APM Reports and The Marshall Project explores how police in
St. Louis — one of America’s deadliest cities — have struggled to solve
killings, leaving thousands of family members without answers. READ MORE
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Run Chicago? Mayor Brandon
Johnson has struggled to accomplish big things, and his predecessor had an even
harder time. History suggests some building blocks of mayoral success. READ MORE
Will Apple’s New OpenAI Deal Be a Game-Changer? The company unveiled a suite of new artificial intelligence capabilities in its newest operating system, including connecting its interactive voice feature Siri with OpenAI's ChatGPT. READ MORE