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Government Technology
Just as a school teacher roots for his students, the Center for Digital Government is hopeful every two years that each respondent to its Digital States Survey will astound with reports of their technological feats. Though a competition of sorts, the Digital States Survey is more a showcase of state government's collective technology portfolio.
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Government Executive
Let’s say you’re making a hard choice, one that could impact your life significantly. Every time you think you've settled on something, the other option tugs you back to its side. You end up where you started: It's a draw.
Should you make ever-more-detailed lists of pros and cons and seek advice from even more trusted sources? Or should you go with your gut?
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The Dallas Morning News
Dallas residents may want the loose dogs and potholes to go away and more cops keeping criminals at bay in the next fiscal year, but they can't have it all.
City leaders are saying they're concerned that a drive to hire and retain more police officers and fix the police and fire pension fund might take up too much room in the 2016-17 budget now under discussion and eat up funds from other departments.
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Fox News
Facebook activated its Safety Check service that lets users notify friends and family that they are safe following the explosion that injured at least 29 people in New York City late Saturday.
This is the first time that Safety Check has been activated in New York.
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Property Casualty 360
There is a growing awareness that good land use and planning can do much to reduce the impact of natural catastrophes.
Communities that understand the risks they face and mitigate those risks become resilient and can experience sustainable outcomes when affected by natural hazards.
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Governing
Demographic data can say a lot about who lives in a city. It can also be an indicator of that city's finances.
Generally speaking, if a city has a high number of residents who consume more public resources than they contribute to the tax base, there will more likely be potential problems for that city's fiscal outlook. New 2015 estimates from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey published Thursday provide an updated demographic snapshot for localities.
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Route Fifty
The city of Chicago plans to deploy dry ice as a weapon in its ongoing battle against rats.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Department of Streets and Sanitation announced the new rodent control measure Tuesday. To kill rats with dry ice, workers place a spoonful of it in a burrow and cover up the hole. As the ice melts, it turns to carbon dioxide and suffocates the rodents.
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NPR
To millions of people in New York on Monday morning, the first word of a suspect in the New York and New Jersey bombings arrived at 8 a.m. with a jarring, screeching sound of their mobile phones.
Screens lit up across New York City with an emergency alert: "WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-year-old male. See media for pic. Call 9-1-1 if seen."
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EOS
Every earthquake begins small: Earth rumbles and starts grinding along a fault, and the land slips, moves, and tears. What determines whether the initial rupture continues to grow into an enormous, devastating earthquake or a tremble that only registers on the most sensitive instruments?
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