A Short Sad History of Congress Trading D.C.'s Rights Away
Congress is poised to interfere with the District's popular marijuana referendum. It’s an all too familiar story.
State Labor Commissioner Transforms Boring Certificate Into Persona-Building Asset
Many North Carolina residents are very familiar with ‘Elevator Lady’ Cherie Berry.
Lucky Residents in This Florida Locality Win Cash Rewards for Recycling
There’s the carrot-and-stick approach to encourage good behavior. But cash works, too.
Apple, IBM debut mobile analytics apps for iOS
Apple and IBM unveiled IBM MobileFirst for iOS, the first apps from a joint venture designed to offer business-specific, cloud-supported data and analytics capabilities on Apple devices.
App-level approach to mobile management
Mobile app management can help government IT pros who want to take advantage of the savings mobile apps bring but still need to secure the enterprise.
Municipalities deliver broadband via partnerships
Municipal governments are crafting creative partnerships to get broadband into their communities.
Let Us Now Give Thanks for Oil Busts, a Great American Tradition
The key to understanding today’s collapsing energy prices is perhaps the oil-and-gas bust of the mid-1980s.
Growing Evidence Shows Walkability Is Good for You, and for Cities
New research links walkability with safer, healthier, more democratic places.
GSA's wish list for leading edge tech
The General Services Administration has created a list of developing technologies that could be incorporated into GSA's Alliant I and Alliant II government-wide acquisition contracts.
Rugged in 2015: Big, bad and Android
Look for bigger, tougher Android devices in 2015, but watch for IP ratings creep.
North Carolina Suburb Empowers Water Customers With Hourly Usage Updates
Cary’s new Aquastar system can help alert residents when they might have a leaky toilet—or, potentially, a more wasteful and costly problem.
Seattle Police Make Public Appeal to Help Tackle a Major Tech Problem
The department hopes hackers can help it make more than 1 million hours of surveillance video available while balancing privacy and transparency.
How Many Superstorms Will It Take to End California's Drought?
Hint: More than just one.
On Immigration, Gaining the Support of Mayors Is as Much Practical as It Is Political
Cities with large foreign-born populations are likely to process the bulk of applicants following Obama's executive order.
What’s next for open data?
Although some government agencies are opening data to adhere to mandates, many are working to make it useful.
IDC handicaps gov IaaS market
IDC MarketScape assesses the readiness of leading cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors to compete in the government marketplace.
‘Gold standard’ for random number generation: radioactive decay
The technology used to control access to nuclear weapons could secure other applications that use encoded protection, such as communications and the IT supply chain.
Lockheed lifts Map of the World to AWS commercial cloud
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency launched its Map of the World within Amazon Web Services’ Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) environment.
Checking Out the Infamous 11-Foot-8 Bridge
Too-tall trucks regularly—and sometimes spectacularly—crash into this low-height railroad bridge in Durham.
Congress Will Block D.C. Pot Referendum
Spending bill prevents city from using funds to implement ballot initiative.
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