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Governing
The U.S. Supreme Court handed the Crow Tribe a major victory recently in a long-running hunting rights dispute between the tribe and the state of Wyoming. This is the second time that the justices have ruled to enforce tribal treaty rights this year, and a third, perhaps more far-reaching, case is still before the justices. Until recently, the Supreme Court was seen as unsympathetic to Native American causes.
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Route Fifty
Child welfare case workers in Oregon will only be required to have an associate degree, instead of a bachelor’s degree, under a bill Gov. Kate Brown has signed into law. The legislation calls for people with associate degrees to get additional training or certifications determined by the state’s Human Services Department in order to become case workers. Oregon’s child welfare director, Marilyn Jones, had urged lawmakers to relax the degree requirements.
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Insurance Journal
Since October 2017 when the #MeToo era began and sexual harassment claims against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein were revealed, insurers have seen an uptick in not only the number but also the size of sexual harassment claims. In a talk at the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) conference in Boston recently, Dean Constantine, senior vice president of Employment Practices claims at AIG Property Casualty, stressed that “people who are sexually harassed should get what they’re entitled to” while also noting that large settlements can influence “the expectations of the plaintiff’s bar.”
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Claims Journal
The rain across the Midwest and Great Plains that’s closed refineries, flooded streets and snarled Mississippi River traffic shows no sign of abating, adding to the U.S.’s wettest 12-month stretch on record. Heavy showers will fall from Texas to the Great Lakes as a months-long pattern of storms continues for at least the next week, said David Roth, a senior branch forecaster at the U.S. Weather Prediction Center. Tornadoes and hail also threaten the region.
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Federal News Network
Two years ago, the Office of Management and Budget made enterprise risk management (ERM) mandatory for federal agencies. Most agencies are complying, often setting up elaborate systems with pages of detailed reports and complex analysis. For some agencies, that is the right approach. But for others, are they getting real value in the form of better management for the agency? Or is ERM just becoming another compliance exercise?
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Next Gov
The Transportation Department is trying to figure out how to adapt existing vehicle safety standards for driverless cars that come with far fewer human controls. With more autonomous vehicles hitting the road in the years ahead, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking for ways to keep them safe for both their passengers and other drivers on the road. Current safety regulations focus heavily on making sure drivers can maneuver vehicles away from danger, but when humans are removed from the equation, NHTSA will need new ways to make sure cars can keep themselves out of harm’s way.
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Route Fifty
In the 1930s, a New Deal agency produced notorious maps to signal the credit worthiness of neighborhoods for mortgage lenders looking to refinance homes. These redlining maps color-coded predominantly African American neighborhoods as “hazardous,” indicating a high credit risk. Decades later, the “hazardous” warnings appear to be literally true. A new study finds that people who live in historically redlined neighborhoods are more than twice as likely as others to go to the emergency room for asthma. The new research from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco, links decades of residential segregation to new findings of environmental racism.
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Government Technology
In 2017, the Nebraska Public Service Commission embarked on a quest to convince lawmakers to update the state’s 911 system from one reliant on phone calls to an adaptable, modern service that could respond to, for example, a text message in emergencies. The commission, with the help of consultants from Mission Critical Partners, presented a 911 Service System, Next Generation 911 Master Plan to the Nebraska Legislature, which passed a bill approving the outline in 2018.
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