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Route Fifty
Maryland is best poised to respond to a public health crisis, while Nevada and Alaska are least prepared, according to a national index released earlier this month.
The National Health Security Preparedness Index measures states’ readiness to respond to health disasters, including natural disasters, terrorism and disease outbreaks — think Zika or Ebola.
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Governing
It’s more than just an inexpensive, convenient way to get to the airport or back home safely from an evening of bar-crawling. More and more, people are calling Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services in place of ambulances to take them to the emergency room. There’s no mystery to their motivation.
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Emergency Management
There’s nothing like a dramatic chorus of sirens sounding around a city to announce looming disasters.
But Guilford County doesn’t have a siren system that could have warned people before a tornado struck east Greensboro on April 15.
And the county’s emergency management director says that’s not a bad thing — texts and emails are much more likely to break through the distractions and alert people that something wicked is headed this way.
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Property Casualty 360
As many in the insurance industry are well aware, there have recently been a few fatal accidents in the United States involving autonomous vehicles.
While still under investigation, these accidents brought to the forefront concerns about who is truly liable when such an accident occurs.
Uber has already settled with part of the family for the pedestrian who was struck and killed by one of its autonomous vehicles in Arizona.
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Quartz via Government Executive
How long do you think you’ll live? The question might be macabre for some, but it’s a vital part of planning for the future. Underestimating your lifespan means you could run out of retirement savings in old age, giving the “golden years” less of a glow. Overestimating it may lead to excessive thrift while you’re alive.
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By Seth Sandronsky
 Does public assistance to businesses level the marketplace? Just ask Greg LeRoy, head of Good Jobs First (GJF), an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. Public "subsidies favor big businesses and shortchange small, local and entrepreneurial firms — including a third of the Forbes 400," according to him. That policy dynamic has other effects. Governing magazine, tracking GJF data that examined cities’ tax-cut disclosures under a new accounting rule that studies federal measures of income distribution in municipalities, found that "local governments most heavily reliant on tax incentives tend to be those with greater levels of economic inequality."
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NBC News
From telescopes to heart stents and artificial muscles, origami has inspired all sorts of curiously innovative objects. Now a trio of Polish designers has won a major design competition for their proposal for an origami-inspired skyscraper that could be transported to a building site in folded form and then unfolded to its full height with help from a huge, built-in helium balloon.
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By Lisa Mulcahy
 Office collaboration is essential for great overall productivity in your company, but it's so easy for individual workers to get so caught up in their own tasks and goals that they don't feel this sense of friendly community. Want to encourage your workers to feel closer to each other, and subsequently more eager to do great work together? Try these research-proven tips to foster more camaraderie your organization.
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Government Technology
Axon, the nation’s largest distributor of police body worn cameras, is interested in adding facial recognition capabilities to its body camera technology, its CEO stated at the company's first Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics Board meeting last week in Arizona, according to a Washington Post report.
But for local governments, such a move raises questions about whether municipalities will impose policies and requirements tied to the use of such technology.
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By Catherine Iste
 Promotions are not always an option. Stable or small workforces may mean promotion opportunities are few and far between. Yet promotions are not the only way to inspire, appreciate and encourage our teams. It is time we stop focusing on promotions and start recognizing the value of our individual contributors. The first step to valuing individual contributors is to understand that their career path does not go up as much as it goes deeper into their field and then finding ways to facilitate that growth.
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