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Management
Cities and Counties Honor Lives Lost to Covid-19 with Memorials
Cities and counties across the country participated Tuesday in a national Covid-19 memorial, while others have erected more permanent reminders of lives lost during the pandemic.
Management
Women Hold Unprecedented Power in Vermont’s Statehouse. This Is How They’ll Lead.
Women hold the three top positions in Vermont’s legislature. With them they bring an understanding that to focus on economic recovery means to focus on caregiving.
Health & Human Services
Are Public Health Ads Worth the Price? Not if They’re All About Fear
Public health advertising can fall short by inciting fear, rather than providing clear steps viewers can take to save lives.
Sponsor Content
Cloud Offers a Path to Scalable, Innovative Eligibility and Enrollment Systems
Increasing demand for new and more user-friendly services, rising transaction complexity, and calls for data transparency have made it important for agencies to transform the ways they interact with constituents and design systems to deliver benefits.
Infrastructure
The Best and Worst States for Driving
You can experience the joy of the open road in Texas. Not so much in Hawaii.
Health & Human Services
America’s Most Reliable Pandemic Data Are Now at Risk
The Biden administration has to make a choice: Should it undo a vital system that Trump’s health department created?
Tech & Data
Cheaper Solar Power Means Low-Income Families Can Also Benefit—With The Right Kind of Help
New research finds that certain policies and business models can help with getting lower and moderate income households to install solar panels at their homes.
Public Safety
America’s Second-Worst Scenario
COMMENTARY | So far, cumulative acts of civic virtue have saved the republic. But the constitutional order is still in danger.
Health & Human Services
Memphis-Area Residents Without Internet Must Wait Days for Vaccination Appointments, While Others Go to the Front of the Line
The county’s decision to prioritize vaccinations for internet users — and its failure to set aside any appointments for callers — raises issues of equity and access, say experts.
Tech & Data
State IT Officials Will Push for New Federal Grants to Help With Tech Upgrades
The group that represents chief information officers says the pandemic has highlighted how unemployment systems and other state and local technology need to be modernized.
Management
'The Internet Has Made Us Dumber,' and Other Lessons Government Officials Learned in 2020
State and local officials weigh in on what they're taking from—and leaving behind in—the dumpster fire that was last year.
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Health & Human Services
The Simple Reason West Virginia Leads the Nation in Vaccinating Nursing Home Residents
COMMENTARY | Other states were still far behind when West Virginia became the first state to finish round one of the two-dose vaccine series in nursing homes. What did the state do differently?
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Improve Government Services with Cloud Technology
A complete guide to connecting data, applications, and processes while advancing security and compliance.
Tech & Data
State Capitols Brace for Cyberattacks, Too
As state capitols prepare for the threat of rioters in the days ahead, information technology experts warn that officials must beef up not only physical security but also cybersecurity.
Finance
Biden Plan Would Direct $400 Billion to Vaccine, Public Health Initiatives
The president-elect’s $1.9 trillion plan includes funding for a national Covid-19 vaccination program, expanded testing capacity, and safety measures to help reopen schools.
Finance
Biden Calls for $350 Billion in State and Local Aid as Part of Massive Stimulus
The president-elect released details on Thursday for a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.
Management
Customers Won't Wear a Mask? One State Says to Call the Police.
Updated guidance from the New Hampshire Attorney General's office instructs businesses to call local law enforcement for assistance if customers simply refuse to comply with a statewide mask mandate.
Health & Human Services
Jordan’s Story: Isolated, Anxious and Failing Online Classes, an 11-Year-Old Texas Boy Considered Suicide
Months of remote learning were hard on the Frisco ISD student. Like other schoolchildren across the state, he experienced mental health issues, in large part due to social isolation during the pandemic.
Health & Human Services
Interest Groups Lobby to Get Ahead in Vaccine Line
The lobbying to be in the "1B category" has been intense in many states. Advocates for older adults, teachers, restaurant workers, agricultural workers and others are pleading their cases.
Public Safety
Two Virginia Police Officers Charged in U.S. Capitol Riot
At least a dozen law enforcement agencies are investigating their officers' possible involvement in the episode. The arrest of two Rocky Mount officers marks the first federal charges related to the riot filed against law enforcement officers.
Management