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By Bambi Majumdar
 It's a sad world where innocent kids must fear going to a concert. But the rise of terror attacks that target concerts and events with large crowds is now a constant threat. The latest example was the recent bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. The blast killed 22 people and injured more than 100. In the aftermath of the attack, law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have ramped up security efforts and deployed more forces in heavily trafficked areas.
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Governing
It was back in 1997 when Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen coined the phrase "disruptive innovation" to describe a process that transforms an industry in which expensive and complicated processes have been the norm. Disruptive innovations introduce simplicity, convenience, accessibility and affordability. Today we face another period of disruption as technologies like the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence spread.
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NPR
The U.S. Army is planning to grant an exclusive license to the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur, Inc. to manufacture and sell a Zika vaccine the Army developed last year.
And that has Rebekah Gee, Louisiana's secretary of health, worried about paying for it.
"God forbid we have a Zika outbreak. We're in the middle of a fiscal crisis, we're already cutting services to people and we're already potentially cutting our funding to fight the Zika virus," Gee says.
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By Lucy Wallwork
 The dominant role once occupied by the city planner is under threat. A new paradigm of participative planning is challenging the "business as usual" process for shaping our urban spaces. The modernists of the 1960s rarely consulted the people who would live inside their grand vision — they merely implemented it. Today, participative planning — whereby members of the community work with designers, architects and planners to decide on the future of cities — is fast becoming the norm.
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Government Executive
Federal employee engagement on the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey shows signs of recovery since the 2013 sequestration, but the current external climate may make further improvements more challenging. Federal employees face several sources of uncertainty and change, including the recent hiring freeze, proposals to cut benefits and employment protections, and changes to mission and priorities under the Trump administration.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Marty Mozzo gets a gorgeous show each night when the sun sets over wetlands near his property on the bay side of a barrier island.
When he and his wife bought the house in 2008, she looked at the marsh, where the only sign of water was a tiny trickle nearly a half mile away.
"Do you think this will flood?" she asked.
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Route Fifty
Doomsday preppers from across the nation have been flocking to Igloo, South Dakota, a remote area on the edge of the Black Hills, where a California entrepreneur has come to an agreement to lease 575 of the 830 sod-covered concrete bunkers once part of a U.S. military ordnance depot. While tenants wouldn’t be allowed to live there full time — at least not until a major catastrophe — they would be able to do periodic stays as they equip their bunker with supplies and provisions.
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Government Technology
Contra Costa County, Calif., hasn’t found a resolution yet to the workweek gridlock that snarls highway traffic across the Bay Area, but one of its public agencies is in the early stages of another pilot aimed at convincing commuters to become part of a potential solution.
On Monday, May 22, the Contra Costa Transportation Authority began a new partnership with San Francisco-based Scoop Technologies Inc., during which it will spend $2 per ride to incentivize residents to use the carpooling application during weekday drive times.
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By David Cain
 I have always believed that if you want to understand leadership, look at individuals who have been great leaders. I am not talking about the obvious high-profile ones, but those who have touched your own life and left a lasting impression. In my life, I have been lucky to have known many successful people from many different walks of life. So, I thought that taking the lessons I learned from this wide variety of sources could be a different twist on this matter of leadership.
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USA Today
Storm surge — the deadliest threat from hurricanes — will get its own set of alerts for the first time when the season officially starts Thursday, the National Weather Service said.
Storm surge is the massive mound of water that builds up and comes ashore as a hurricane moves over the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico.
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