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Government Executive
You may know someone like this at work: optimistic and resilient, they appear to bounce through challenges drawing on an internal strength that helps them work through problems they encounter at work. Always hopeful and positive about the future, they treat stressful events as a “one-off” situation, appearing to have a built-in buffer that protects them against both ordinary and extraordinary events. Perhaps this is even you.
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Campus Safety
We’re seeing the lightning-fast spread of misinformation about various people and topics via the Internet and news media. One topic that is currently a target of this rumor mill is lockdown and shelter-in-place.
It seems as though many individuals who are active on social media believe that lockdown doesn’t work and that the only solution is for civilians to carry guns. They are mistaken.
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By Katina Smallwood
 One word has consistently dominated news outlets worldwide this summer: Zika. And it is with good reason. The mosquito-borne virus has spread to more than 60 countries and territories, and cases have reached epidemic levels in Central and South America and throughout the Caribbean. In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a travel warning for an area near downtown Miami — the first such warning to ever be issued for an American neighborhood.
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Government Technology
The 911 systems have served the public for the last 40 years. They were originally designed to take calls from landlines; the data collection technology available under old systems was based on gathering location information from landline numbers to localize an emergency to a particular address. But in the last decade, the percentage of 911 calls made from cellphones has skyrocketed. This has led to challenging times for 911 call centers as the technology underpinning the old systems no longer works in an increasingly mobile world.
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Governing
Brian Wells looks out over the Cedar River at the end of an old dirt road deep within the Adirondack Park in upstate New York. The road is in the town of Indian Lake, and he is town supervisor. For years, Wells has fought to build a bridge over the river to a connecting trail on the other side as a way to attract snowmobilers, horseback riders and hikers.
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Governing
It is easy to look at the data-driven management successes of place like Chicago or New York and conclude that the sophisticated application of data analytics requires the urban scale and resources of a big city. The story of Jackson, Mississippi, population 173,514, and its dramatic ramp-up of the use of data use to tackle the city's problems in the past year belies this assumption.
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Bloomberg
Susan Rowe watched with alarm as Flint, Michigan, discovered its drinking water had been tainted with lead after an emergency manager’s botched economizing. Rowe, the mayor of the struggling Detroit suburb of Wayne, was determined not to put her residents at the mercy of the state. Her chances of success are dwindling.
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Route Fifty
As compliance with public disclosure laws becomes increasingly complicated in an era of cloud servers, smartphones and messaging apps, a panel of experts offered a window into the sometimes tricky terrain state legislatures navigate when maintaining and releasing records. The panel took place at the National Conference of State Legislatures 2016 legislative summit in Chicago.
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PropertyCasualty360
In recent years, properties in the United States have been hit hard by natural disasters, with the largest insured loss event occurring in 2014, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association.
Property and casualty insurance industry catastrophes losses in the United States rose to $15.5 billion in 2014, up from 12.9 billion in 2013. As a result, claims rose to 2.1 million in 2014, compared with 1.8 million in 2013, the association reported, citing that each year about 6 percent of homeowners file claims.
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