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Governing
Miami-Dade expects to spend almost $10 million fighting Zika through the summer, a growing tab that's already complicating efforts to boost county funding for affordable housing and other last-minute budget sweeteners.
Florida offered $5 million to cover Miami-Dade's Zika costs, but county officials are bracing to absorb a much larger spending bite. The $10 million estimate covers estimated expenses only through Sept. 30, when the 2016 budget year ends, even as the county launches new rounds of aerial spraying on Miami Beach.
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By Dana W. White
 After working with a number of leaders — from CEOs of Global Fortune 500 companies to small business owners — I've learned that no matter the size of the enterprise, everyone can be a leader. Why? Because leadership is about showing others the way and instilling the confidence in them to follow you. However, not all managers do this. Often, employees are promoted not on their ability to lead others but rather based on their ability to perform a set of tasks.
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Nextgov
Recently, Donald Trump attacked the Obama administration’s failure to enforce the law against people who overstay their visas.
“We must send the message that visa expiration dates will be strongly enforced,” he declared. But as with many of his promises, delivering won’t be easy. Although it’s a glaringly big security gap, both the Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly tried and failed to overcome the hurdles necessary to plug it.
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Emergency Management
As schools in the Baton Rouge area struggle to return to normal in the wake of historic flooding, some of the educators who run them are facing their own challenges.
Bruno Paquot returned to work Thursday. He’d been gone three weeks but it might as well have been a lifetime ago.
The native of Belgium had his life turned upside down when his two family cars and house flooded, forcing his family to live elsewhere.
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Government Technology
American prisons and jails don’t stop people from committing crimes again for the same reason that cars aren’t magically repaired after being locked in a garage for 20 years. Sometimes things have to get a lot worse before people think it’s worth the effort to make them better — and America may finally be approaching that point with its criminal justice system.
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Route Fifty
While establishing broadband internet connections in rural America is known to offer certain economic benefits, it may not be as effective as some might think when it comes to attracting entrepreneurs and so-called creative class employees to those places.
At least that’s what an academic paper published earlier this summer suggests.
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Government Executive
On Sept. 2, NextGov ran a story about the 2016 edition of Forrester Research's Customer Experience Index. The report will cost you $499 to purchase but the article highlights what for me is the main point:
The federal government finished dead last among 21 major industries, and had 5 of the 8 worst scores of the 319 brands, leading Forrester to note that government has a “near monopoly on the worst experiences.”
Before commenting on this study, it should be noted that we don't have a clear sense of what the methodology was.
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