N.Y.C. Cracks Down on Brooklyn Bridge ‘Love Locks’
The city’s transportation department is installing new signs and asking travel guide editors for help, as it looks to keep sweethearts from fastening padlocks to the landmark.
Reimagined PDFs for the connected world
ConnectedPDF technology takes the traditional e-document and makes it smarter, enabling it to know its location, status, whether it has been updated and how it has been distributed.
Navigator Award Finalists: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Team
Getting the nation’s second-largest city better prepared for its next seismic disaster.
Syracuse Wants Citizens to Help Boost Street Quality Using Open Data
“It’s a way of bringing new resources and new ideas to a very traditional problem,” said Mayor Stephanie Miner.
4 security management strategies for data center consolidation
Organizational flexibility, encryption and automation will help network administrators better manage security as data centers shrink.
Route Fifty Roadmap: Visiting a Kansas City Suburb Where Google Fiber Hit a Roadblock
Municipal rules about undergrounding utilities proved to be too great a challenge to overcome in Leawood, Kansas, back in 2014. Could new models to expand connectivity bridge those barriers?
More resilient 911 with broadband satellite
The Ark-Tex Council of Governments added a satellite network to its 911 system to ensure citizens’ access to emergency services.
FCC moves broadcasters’ disclosures into the cloud
The Federal Communications Commission replaced a paper-based public files system with a cloud-hosted repository that makes the records more readily available.
Cities Breathe New Life into Abandoned Bikes
Faced with piles of abandoned bikes, some cities are auctioning them off or donating them to nonprofits that restore them and give them to people in need.
In Defense of 'Third World' Airports in the U.S.
U.S. airports are tireless workhorses. They handle more traffic than many international airports abroad because of the country’s large domestic air-route network, unlike many hubs in other countries.
Train in Hoboken Crash Had Malfunctioning Data Recorder; Ransomware Hits Honolulu Fire Dept.
Also in our State and Local Weekend News Digest: Louisiana’s “Deepwater Horizon” tax breaks; Illinois state government pays its electric bill; and sentence handed down in Kentucky bribery case.
Navigator Award Finalists: Kim Scott Heinle and Team From SEPTA Customer Service and Advocacy Dept.
A transit agency aims to take customer service challenges and use them as engagement opportunities.
LinkNYC’s Link Creator Looks to New ‘Smartscapes’
Will the smart infrastructure equivalent of the iPhone speed the digitization of more cities?
Smart Cities Technology Is Appealing, But How Will It Get Financed?
Local governments already have challenges with funding their existing infrastructure, raising questions on how to make investments in smart technologies a reality.
Bringing big data to bear on infectious disease
With the Collaborative Advanced Analytics and Data Sharing toolkit, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made sense of an outbreak in days rather than months.
How one state's modernization delivers service transformation
Louisiana's IT consolidation focuses on delivering solutions, not technology, to customers.
How Cincinnati's Public Utilities Have Deployed Drone Aircraft
“Using drone technology we can do it in a matter of minutes, versus a matter of hours or days, and redirect human resources to other facets of the utility,” according to City Manager Harry Black.
U.S. Governors: Next President Must Increase Mass Transit Funding
“You have to prove to people you understand it’s their money and you’re spending it wisely,” says Delaware Gov. Jack Markell.
A government cloud solution at Silicon Valley speed
Rather than simply modify existing systems, the Labor Department’s Employment and Training Administration rapidly developed a cloud-based platform that integrates grants’ performance and financial systems.
Strained Gas Supplies in Southeastern U.S.; Aerial Vaccine Drops in Alabama
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: Average farmland value dips in Iowa; Bozeman’s town-growth tensions; and Gov. Rauner’s legal fight over expanded patronage reviews in Illinois.
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