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Governing
A few months ago, the auditor’s office in Louisiana issued a report about inspections of dental offices. The state requires inspectors to check out dental facilities once every three years. This is important stuff. If dental instruments aren’t properly cleaned, for example, the first patient of the day can easily spread a flu bug to the second patient and then on to the third, fourth and so on. “These inspections are an important way to protect the public’s safety,” says Chris Magee, a senior performance auditor for Louisiana.
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Tampa Bay Times
Naturally, disaster threatened North Florida as Craig Fugate returned home after seven years in Washington running the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The tornadoes last month passed, and Fugate got on with decompressing.
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Emergency Management
Emergency management leaders at hospitals and medical centers are grappling with a major rule change from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
CMS finalized a rule it says is intended to establish consistent emergency preparedness requirements for health care providers participating in Medicare and Medicaid.
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Route Fifty
As Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Anthony Griffin patrolled an area near Murfreesboro one morning in January 2014, he gave a young woman a ticket for driving her Geo Prizm without wearing a seat belt.
About four hours later, Griffin was dispatched to help out at the scene of a major accident a few miles away. A car had veered off the road, sailed over a bridge, struck a utility pole and landed in a frozen pond. When Griffin went to question the driver, who appeared uninjured, he was shocked to find it was the same woman he had ticketed earlier.
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Reno Gazette-Journal
As the nation's 84,000 dams continue to age, a growing number of people downstream of these structures are at risk, according to experts and data of the nation's dams.
It's a problem highlighted this week as nearly 200,000 people evacuated the area near California's Oroville Dam, which suffered a potential failure of its emergency spillway.
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The Conversation
Standard advice about preparing for disasters focuses on building shelters and stockpiling things like food, water and batteries. But resilience — the ability to recover from shocks, including natural disasters — comes from our connections to others, and not from physical infrastructure or disaster kits.
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Campus Safety
The attack at the Ohio State University campus on November 28, 2016 was not the first incident at a U.S. college or university classified by federal officials as being caused by radically inspired Islamist extremism. However, the attack using a car and knife as weapons reflected the latest terrorist strategy resulting in 12 victims directly injured by the attacker, among them students, faculty and staff.
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Government Technology
If cities are going to have their own fleets of autonomous aircraft, we’re going to need some new rules.
Sales of commercial-grade drones will soar from 80,000 units in 2015 to more than 2.6 million annually by 2025, market intelligence firm Tractica predicts. Municipal uses will drive that growth as cities look to drones to help manage traffic, monitor pollution, deter crime and perform a host of other functions.
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Nextgov
The Homeland Security Department’s science and technology division will be showing off a dozen new cyber tools developed with DHS funds at next week's RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco.
The tools range from helping organizations join forces against malware attacks to offering secure connections to Bluetooth devices.
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