Sports Betting Not Proving to Be a Tax Bonanza For States
Revenues have largely been modest and in some places have fallen far short of projections.
Don’t Be Afraid of a Cashless Future
COMMENTARY | City ordinances requiring businesses to accept cash payments to protect the poor are missing the larger picture.
Coral Reefs Provide Flood Protection Worth $1.8 Billion Every Year—It’s Time to Protect Them
COMMENTARY | A new report shows that coral reefs reduce damage from floods across the United States and its trust territories by more than $1.8 billion every year—and pinpoints that value state by state.
County-Based Solutions for the Opioid Crisis in Appalachia
New research from the National Association of Counties aims to provide local government officials with tools to combat the opioid crisis in Appalachia.
Ransomware decryption firms uncovered as frauds
A new ProPublica investigation found two U.S. data recovery firms that claimed to help unlock data but actually paid the ransom and marked up their costs to the victims.
The New Abortion Bills Are a Dare
State legislators in Alabama and Georgia know that abortion bans will likely be overturned in lower courts. They are aiming higher.
Want Better Education in Rural America? Start with Broadband
In all 50 states, urban access to broadband outpaces rural access, and in all but three states, urban areas surpass rural ones in educational attainment.
Toward the deployment of ethical AI
As agencies navigate the ethics surrounding artificial intelligence technology, they can learn to identify and avoid bias, an IDC analyst says.
It's time for consensus on facial recognition in law enforcement
Like fingerprint identification technology, facial recognition has the potential to significantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of police investigations.
DARPA vs. the mosquito
New technology would temporarily modify skin microbiome to reduce attraction of disease-causing mosquitos.
Black Women More Likely to Die of Breast Cancer—Especially in the South
No region has as many high-disparity states clustered together as the South.
The AI Supply Chain Runs on Ignorance
Tech companies often fail to tell users how their data will be employed. Sometimes, the firms can’t even anticipate it themselves.
Memphis Charts a New City Plan, Despite Lawsuit Against It
STATE AND LOCAL ROUNDUP | Connecticut millionaires ask for higher taxes … Midwest cleans up after floods, but more rain coming … D.C. tables amendment to limit FOIA requests.
As Congress Mulls Retirement Savings Shortfalls, New State Programs Get Attention
Initiatives in Oregon and other states are targeting people without employer-sponsored retirement plans.
Roads Suffer When States Focus on Expansion Over Repair, Report Says
If federal leaders do work out a deal on a $2 trillion infrastructure spending package, advocacy groups say a lot of the money should go toward road repairs, rather than new highway construction.
The Best—and Worst—States to Live In
Washington ranks first in U.S. News & World Report's annual "Best States" rankings, while Louisiana took last place for the third consecutive year.
Monitoring the complex relationship between applications and servers
Greater visibility into the status of their applications and servers allows administrators to quickly pinpoint the source of problems and respond faster.
3 ways cloud eases the disaster recovery struggle
Moving away from an on-premise strategy and toward a hybrid cloud approach takes care of many disaster recovery challenges, including affordability, flexibility and security.
Wyden wants clarity on e-pollbook failure
E-pollbook software made by VR Systems "catastrophically" failed on Election Day 2016 in a number of Durham County, N.C., voting precincts where voters ended up being turned away.
Uber launches tool to track traffic speeds
The new Uber Movement Speeds provides street-level traffic in hourly increments for New York, Seattle and Cincinnati, London and Nairobi.
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