Why One City Wants to Bring Back Postal Banking
Postal banking—an idea from the early 20th century—is ripe for revival in urban and rural America, say advocates like the U.S. postal worker union.
Protected Bike Lanes Are Safer for Drivers, Too
A comprehensive study of crash and street design data from 12 cities finds that roads with protected bike lanes make both cycling and driving safer.
High clouds: High impacts, high baselines and high-flying data
Quick hits from the government cloud community.
Putting the Earth's weather data in the cloud
As the amount high-quality weather data increases, NOAA is looking at a cloud-based exchange for global weather information.
Critical Condition: Here Are America’s Newest Endangered Historic Places
The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2019 list of imperiled buildings, neighborhoods, and districts reveals the threats that older places face.
To Curb Trashcan Clutter, a City Will Try Stowing Waste Underground
Raleigh, North Carolina is looking to improve on “the old school model” it uses to handle waste from downtown businesses.
Cities Aren't Doing Enough to Prepare for Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving vehicle technology may be coming, but most city leaders aren’t doing much to anticipate our robot-car future, a new study warns.
Planting a Habitat for Pollinators on City Streets
A pollinator protection task force in Madison, Wisconsin led to a median-planting project designed to provide a friendly environment for bees and butterflies.
DISA tests cloud-based internet isolation
A prototype solution moves web browsing from the desktop to the cloud, effectively putting an “air gap” between the internet and enterprise networks and improving bandwidth utilization.
Let freedom and innovation ring
Open source technology offers agencies the freedom of choice they need to effectively innovate their way out of their current challenges, incrementally and at their own pace.
Is the JEDI prelude winding down?
We may be seeing the end of the introductory phase the Pentagon's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure procurement.
Internet2's Cloud Connect service goes live
The service gives members a way to deploy shared direct connection infrastructure that supports private direct connections to major cloud services.
$831 Million Project to Repel Invasive Fish From Great Lakes Gets Army Corps Greenlight
One advocate describes a “race against time” to block Asian carp, which pose a threat to native wildlife.
What We Fight About When We Fight About Parking
The urban economist Donald Shoup collects reports of violence that erupts over parking spaces. To him, disputes between drivers are signs of a bigger problem.
Ranking the Country's Parks
Washington, D.C. dethroned three-time defending champ Minneapolis in the latest version of the ParkScore index, released this week by the Trust for Public Land.
Infrastructure Talks Between Trump and Democrats Crumble
The two sides had planned to sit down Wednesday to talk about a possible $2 trillion package.
Next-generation data centers
As agencies modernize and move to the cloud, CIOs should take stock of roadblocks created by their current data storage solutions and consider what can be improved to better serve their mission.
House renews call for multicloud JEDI
Appropriators continue to object to the Pentagon's $10 billion single-award cloud procurement, concerned that the contract will lock the Defense Department into the same platform for 10 years, even as technology advances.
Despite Resistance, Cities Turn to Density to Tackle Housing Inequality
Residential "upzoning” policies being adopted from Minneapolis to Seattle were once politically out of the question. Now they’re just politically fraught.
How One City Handles Complaints About Its Transit System
San Francisco’s BART System doesn’t just tweet back at people complaining on social media, but also tries to tap into the information to help guide maintenance, cleanup, and repair in real time.
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