Why Back-Up Battery Power for Garage Doors Can Be a Matter of Life and Death
STATE AND LOCAL ROUNDUP | Mich. governor hopes to end labor dispute … “green slime” surrounds ritzy Fla. community … and a new site for massive Minn. homeless camp.
Navigator Award Finalists: The Next Generation
Up-and-coming leaders are empowering women to pursue emergency management careers, building entrepreneurial skills among youth, housing citizens, saving lives, and just plain making government better.
A Grassroots Call to Ban Gerrymandering
Voters Not Politicians gathered an astounding 425,000 signatures in Michigan to secure a spot on the November ballot for a proposed constitutional amendment creating a citizens’ commission for redistricting.
Will California Make It Harder for Police to Use Deadly Force?
A change in standards could be copied by other states, but has not yet gained enough traction in the state legislature.
Lawsuit Will Test State Plan to Shift Retiree Drug Coverage to Medicare
Maryland enacted changes to save billions of dollars on health care coverage for retired public employees. But a rollback of prescription drug benefits has led to a court challenge.
Most Hospital ERs Won’t Treat Your Addiction. These Will.
In most places across the country, opioid addicts can't get addiction medication in ERs. But some have started to do things differently.
Electric grid protection through low-cost sensors, machine learning
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a relatively inexpensive method for on-the-fly detection of attacks on power grids.
Paper-based electronics could fold, biodegrade and be the basis for the next generation of devices
Researchers working on "papertronics" used bacteria to develop a paper battery that’s recyclable and biodegradable, as well as reliable enough to actually use.
Demystifying PaaS: The missing piece to digital transformation
PaaS is the tooling that allows agencies to build, run, connect, manage, secure and discover innovative possibilities among their IT systems, both in the cloud and on-premises.
The Interstate Corridors Most Primed for Autonomous Trucks
STATE AND LOCAL ROUNDUP | Massachusetts State Police indictments … Boise’s renewable energy goal … and Vermont EMT apprenticeships.
Revitalize Your City By Helping Retrain Workers
COMMENTARY | Leaders need to focus on cultivating and supporting startup growth, while also helping people get the skills to work in new environments.
Drop in Mexican-Born Immigrants Attributed to Hostility Here, Opportunity There
The number of U.S. residents—legal and undocumented—born in Mexico has dropped slowly since a peak of 11.7 million before the Great Recession, to 11.3 million in 2017, but the decline of 300,000 between 2016 and 2017 is rare.
Making Rescue Volunteers Part of the Official Response
A rescue website developed during Hurricane Harvey—and in use again during Hurricane Florence—wants to work more directly with local governments.
Deficit Laden Federal Finances Stir Uncertainty for Future State Aid
Low Federal Reserve interest rates are a concern as well when it comes to how the nation will respond to the next recession.
Predicting Obesity From a City's Infrastructure
An artificial intelligence algorithm found a correlation between green space and obesity in several cities.
Mirai creators helping FBI crack cybercrime cases
The government's plea agreement with the three teens who built the Mirai botnet is providing investigators with insider tools and knowledge.
Cryptojacking: The canary in the coalmine?
The theft of CPU power to mine cryptocurrencies does more than siphon off agency resources -- it also opens the door for more malware to affect machines and networks.
Smarter asset management: A 3-step strategy to doing more with less
A reliability-based maintenance model prioritizes the infrastructure and assets that maximize efficiency and safety.
Pentagon Declares War on Scooters
After seven rental scooters were abandoned at the Pentagon following this year’s September 11 remembrances, police say they will begin impounding the unauthorized rides. Bikes, too.
A N.C. City’s Last-Ditch Effort to Fill 5,000 Sand Bags in 5 Hours
STATE AND LOCAL ROUNDUP | Michigan mayor wants state of emergency for traffic … Bay Area workers living in RVs get designated parking … and a Texas mayor kills alligator with one shot.
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