An Interview With Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild
Smart planning, economic development, water and relations with Mexico are among the top issues for this growing Southern Arizona city.
Drilling Into State of the State Addresses, Gubernatorial Agendas Take Shape
Transportation funding, innovative P3s and prison reform are high on governors’ lists.
Agencies push public access with new article repositories
The NIST library will leverage the search, archival and dissemination features of PubMedCentral, while Energy is partnering with CHORUS to supply access to its research.
'Minority Report' gets real with gesture tech platform
Mezzanine, a commercial version of the interfaces Tom Cruise used on screen, helps agency teams collaborate, gain situational awareness.
New York City’s Latest Municipal Data Breakthrough: Loud Sex Complaints
The city’s 311 system has pinpointed the location of the most frequently complained about high-decibel lovemaking.
Solving the search problem for large-scale repositories
New automation approaches solve common agency problems in the move from paper to digital.
Increasing State Speed Limits Spur Safety Concerns
Drivers’ rights advocates argue that if higher speed limits are being set at appropriate levels based on valid engineering standards, roads will actually be safer. But many safety experts disagree.
EPA releases water quality dashboard
The Environmental Protection Agency's Safe Drinking Water Act dashboard tracks public water system compliance with clean water laws.
Philadelphia forks Analytics.USA.gov for local use
Code developed by 18F is used to capture "big picture" analytics for websites citywide.
Lessons From a South Carolina City’s Battle With a Judgmental N.Y.C. Writer
Why many cities should probably simply ignore what New Yorkers think—and write—about them.
In Civic Tech Circles, There Are Few Better Places to Be Than Philadelphia City Hall
Will the innovation momentum continue under the city’s next mayor?
Look at Utah’s New Web Initiative to Boost Tourism
Having already seen increased attendance at national parks in the Beehive State, boosting the visibility of state parks is the next step.
‘Systems of Care’ Help Address Juvenile Justice Mental Health Challenges
In a recent NACo podcast, experts discuss how to bring together “all of those essential pieces that children with serious behavioral health needs and their families need in order to be successful in life.”
New tool promises better analytics for better hiring
NGA.NET’s new reporting and data visualization tool provides hiring managers with key metrics to better inform the hiring process.
NOAA's no-cost plan to get more data into the cloud
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, IBM, Microsoft and the Open Cloud Consortium will help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration more effectively distribute its data.
HawkEye G adds threat analytics, third-party integration
The platform corroborates actual endpoint behavior with third-party data to help capture, analyze and remove malicious activity before it compromises resources.
Northrop partners with university for health data analytics
Northrop Grumman will expand its cybersecurity work with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, to include research on health data analytics.
Early earthquake warnings? There's an app for that
Smartphones can transmit an earthquake’s detected location and magnitude to the U.S. Geological Survey, which can then send alerts to others in the path of the shock waves.
Massachusetts Cities and Towns Still Feeling Fiscal Hit From Costly Winter
A new credit outlook: “[T]he full effect across all municipalities is significant because it eats into funding for other services or results in declining reserves.”
Bloomberg investing $42 million to open local data
"What Works Cities" initiative aims to help 100 municipal governments do more with their data.
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