'I Am Baffled and At a Loss'
Even legal experts are astounded by the grand jury's decision not to indict a New York City police officer for the killing of Eric Garner.
17 States Challenge Obama's Immigration Directive
The coalition is being led by Texas governor-elect Greg Abbott.
White House Names 16 ‘Climate Action Champions’ From Across the Nation
The selected city, county, tribal and other local governments will received targeted federal assistance to ‘further raise their ambitions.'
Utah Is Demanding an Insurance Startup Charge Its Customers More Money
It’s the latest case of regulation clashing with a disruptive business idea.
Chris Christie Makes Yet Another Visit to His Civic Laboratory
Camden has become a backdrop for the New Jersey governor’s reform agenda and has become his ‘second home.’
Los Angeles Officials Have New Target in Smartphone App Wars: Marijuana Delivery
Fresh off a battle over an on-street parking-space auction app, the city is suing a new medical cannabis delivery service.
Police Body Cameras Are Already Facing Police Skeptics
Money from Obama’s funding pledge helps, but it only goes so far if police departments are reluctant to adopt the new technology.
CoreOS launches Rocket, a Docker alternative
CoreOS built a new container format, called App Container, the company’s back-to-basics specification of an image format, container runtime and a discovery mechanism.
The Internet of hygiene
Veterans Affairs wants to enhance its use of in-hospital location tracking and sensing technologies to improve patient hygiene and clinical workflows.
Smart city platform aggregates, maps open data
Plenario lets users assemble information from open data portals and analyze it via a single spatial and temporal index, making it possible to do complex analysis with one query.
Louisville debuts mobile-first website
The city of Louisville, Ky., unveiled a new website incorporating a mobile-first design and using the Drupal content management system.
Power Grid Failure Leaves Detroit Government Buildings in the Dark. Again.
The Motor City is in the middle of a multi-year transition to shift control of its municipal grid to the regional power utility.
Oklahoma Hopes to Avoid ‘Demolition by Neglect’ for Its Capitol
But there’s a legal challenge on whether a plan to repair the Sooner State’s deteriorating seat of government is constitutional.
Meet the Start-Up That Wants to Turn Your City Into One Big WiFi Hotspot
Veniam aims to connect urban vehicles to an "Internet of moving things."
What Makes Small-Town Saratoga Springs an Unlikely Tech Hub
Only San Francisco eclipses this Upstate New York town in one appetizing placemaking category.
Energy recasts EA for cybersecurity
The Department of Energy’s CIO office built an EA toolset to ensure aging servers and software assets don’t become enterprise vulnerabilities.
Will Texas Execute a Mentally Ill Man?
Scott Panetti's imminent execution highlights deep, systemic flaws in the death penalty.
Justice, CFPB moving services to the cloud
Under contracts with Unisys, Justice will consolidate its reference services in a common secure cloud platform, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will have access to low cost, scalable IT resources from Amazon Web Services.
Social media use growing in law enforcement
A new report looks at law enforcement’s current social media practices and processes and how the landscape has changed over the last two years.
Picture this: AcademyScope visualizes research library
The National Academies Press’s AcademyScope makes it easy to browse related research and to download reports in PDF format.
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