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PRIMA
Apply or nominate someone for PRIMA’s Public Risk Manager of the Year Award or one of PRIMA’s Outstanding Achievement awards. Each year, PRIMA honors the grand master of risk management as well as other individuals and public entities that have excelled in their profession. PRIMA members who have created a new program, product or displayed an overall commitment to the field of public sector risk management are eligible to submit applications by visiting www.primacentral.org/awards.
Property Casual 360
Large wildfires in the United States and Canada in 2015 and 2016, have highlighted a dangerous trend: Wildfires are getting worse in frequency and severity, leading to greater destruction of property. In fact, 2015 was a record-breaking wildfire season. Wildfires, heat waves and drought produced $1.9 billion in insured losses in 2015, and set a new record for the number of acres burned in the United States.
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FutureStructure
As executive director of the Global Connected Customer Experience in the Global Public Policy organization for General Motors, Harry Lightsey is responsible for handling all of the newer technologies coming into vehicles, including connectivity, autonomous or self-driving vehicles, cybersecurity and data privacy. Lightsey, who spent 25 years of his career in the telecom industry at BellSouth and AT&T one year before the breakup of the Bell system, spoke with Government Technology's FutureStructure about what's on the horizon in when it comes to transportation.
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By Catherine Iste
How can we live in one of the most advanced societies in history and still be fighting biases in the workplace? With amazing opportunities, continued focus on improving corporate culture and advances in the ways we can work together, is it really possible that gender bias is still a problem? Much of the problem with gender bias is how subtle and simultaneously pervasive it is.
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Nextgov
In an era of unprecedented crackdown on government “leaks,” it is important to be cognizant of both your rights and obligations as a federal employee. Recently, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer gave the green light on random phone searches, leaving many government employees to question the legality of such a directive and wonder whether they would need to comply if faced with a similar order at their own agencies.
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Government Executive
Federal employees across the country are developing new vaccines, working to end homelessness and serving the American people in countless other ways. You will never meet most of them, but we’ll introduce you to five who innovate, not because they have to, but because they have a deep sense of obligation to do so.
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Government Technology
The government needs help.
On Nov. 9, four states — and the local governments they contain — woke up to a mandate from voters to fully legalize a product that has long been illegal. A product the federal government still treats as illegal. A product at once in high demand and very controversial.
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Route Fifty
A Republican plan in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act threatens to slash the amount of federal Medicaid dollars going to states.
The legislation would revamp a funding structure for Medicaid that has been in place for about 50 years, creating a situation where states would have to either shoulder large new costs, or curtail the program by reducing eligibility, benefits or payments to health care providers.
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Governing
The direction set by Ben Carson, the new Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary, will have immense impacts on localities. For starters, federal housing programs make up 40 percent of federal transfers to local governments. That’s a big chunk of change even as federal transfers overall have been in a long-term decline.
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Governing
As the civic data field matures, more cities are discovering the value of data to improve government and asking how they can more fully join the movement. The path a public-sector leader should take to move from analog government to analytics-driven decision-making requires following sound advice and proven examples. Purchasing or building a data solution is only worth the investment when accompanied by the right planning, staffing and support to ensure that the tools not only solve an immediate civic problem but will generate long-term improvement.
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