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Governing
It’s the million-dollar question in disaster planning: Do you order a city to evacuate before a hurricane hits land, or do you tell residents to shelter in place?
The question has been before big-city leaders several times in recent years, and it was the question Houston faced as Hurricane Harvey barreled toward the fourth largest city in America.
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By Catherine Iste
 Whether we are running a department or an entire organization, leading small teams can have its own special challenges. Long-tenured staff have institutional knowledge and idiosyncrasies, newbies can have a hard time getting into sync with co-workers, and everyone knows the quickest and best way to get on each other's nerves. To avoid slipping into comfortable, less-productive roles, consider these three secrets to ensure continued success leading small teams.
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Route Fifty
Emergency managers, local officials and first responders across the flood disaster zone in Texas are carefully watching gauges along rivers, creeks and bayous, awaiting higher water levels as excessive inland rainfall tries to drain as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to dump excessive, unprecedented amounts of rain on the state this week.
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States Self-Insurers Risk Retention Group, Inc provides quality, cost-effective excess liability coverage and superior, personal service to our public entity owners in order to promote a long-term risk management partnership. MORE
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By Sue Dyer
 A growing trend in business is co-opetition. Co-opetition is a buzzword coined to describe cooperative competition. Cartels and trade associations are well-known examples where companies work together despite the fact that they are fierce competitors. Basically, you work in "partnership" with another company to enhance both of your businesses and to create a competitive advantage. Come along with me and see how this works.
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The Wall Street Journal
Hurricane Harvey poses new hazards to a giant U.S. flood insurer already facing mounting debt and a reauthorization fight in Congress.
The National Flood Insurance Program, created about 50 years ago because private insurers were unwilling to risk catastrophic flood losses, could be inundated with new claims totaling billions of dollars following Harvey’s initial Category 4 winds and colossal rainfall.
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Government Technology
A flying multitool. That’s how J.B. Bernstein, CEO of AviSight, describes the product his drone company offers to casinos and agencies across the Las Vegas Valley.
Decorated with sports memorabilia, his office is tucked away in an unassuming business park off Charleston Boulevard. There are no guest chairs like you might find facing the desk of a prototypical all-American CEO, but the space is all-American.
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Government Executive
Helping your coworkers too often can lead to mental and emotional exhaustion and may even hurt your job performance, a new study suggests.
These depletion effects are especially strong for employees with high “pro-social motivation” — those who care deeply about the welfare of others. While previous research on helping has focused largely on the effects of the beneficiaries, this is one of the first studies to focus on the helpers.
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Route Fifty
Following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, a mass exodus of evacuees from New Orleans — including many by the busload — sought refuge in cities like Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Memphis and Oklahoma City. They also went to Texas, including Houston, which this week is facing historic, widespread flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey.
Many of those Houstonians, like displaced New Orleanians before them, are heading to Dallas, the third-most populous city in Texas.
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NPR
The colors the National Weather Service uses to show rainfall on its weather map couldn't represent the deluge in southeastern Texas, so the NWS added two more purple shades to its map. The old scale topped out at more than 15 inches; the new limit tops 30 inches.
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By Bambi Majumdar
 In New York state, 2,784 were injured and 12 people were killed in cellphone-related crashes from 2011-2015, according to The Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research. Police in New York state want to reduce these numbers and are looking at a high-tech way of doing so with the "textalyzer." Ever since New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the state will study textalyzers, the devices have been a topic of much discussion.
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Route Fifty
As Hurricane Harvey churned in the Gulf of Mexico and barreled toward the Texas coast on Thursday, San Francisco-based Airbnb activated its Disaster Response Tool to provide urgent accommodations and to help facilitate crisis communications and coordination for thousands of evacuating area residents and any relief agency and emergency workers heading into the area.
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The Weather Channel
Harris County, Texas, officials confirmed Wednesday that they'd located a missing van days after it was swept away by Harvey's flooding, and two of the six passengers were found dead inside the vehicle.
On Monday, Virginia Saldivar told The Associated Press her brother-in-law was driving the van Sunday when a strong current took the vehicle over a bridge and into the bayou.
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Government Executive
It’s been six months since President Donald Trump’s “skinny budget” proposed cutting $190 million from the flood-hazard mapmaking line item in the National Flood Insurance Program. Now, with Hurricane Harvey inundating thousands of homes in Texas, lawmakers who had shared the White House view may be reconsidering whether, as the Trump team wrote, the government should restructure the program’s homeowner user fees “to ensure that the cost of government services is not subsidized by taxpayers who do not directly benefit from those programs.”
CNN
We're finding out what a major flood emergency looks like in the era of social media.
Hundreds of stranded Texas residents sought help on Sunday by posting on Facebook and Twitter. They tweeted their addresses to emergency officials. They organized rescue missions through Facebook groups. And they posted harrowing pictures to emphasize just how high the flood waters were.
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By Betty Boyd
 In today's current work environment, soft skills are losing to the role of technology. With smartphones, tablets and all forms of social media, soft skills can get lost in the shuffle. What exactly are soft skills? They are attributes that will help you in both business and in life. It all starts with communication. Because we depend upon our mobile devices for communication, having a conversation with someone in person is becoming a thing of the past.
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