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Government Technology
Last month police in Charlotte, North Carolina, shot an African-American man and then sat on the footage from their body and dashboard cameras, refusing to release it until protesters’ demands that the footage be shared turned violent.
Had the shooting occurred 11 days later, recordings of it would not have been considered public record under a new North Carolina law, making it harder to force police to share the footage.
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ABC News
As the remnants of Hurricane Matthew return to the Atlantic Ocean, millions of residents in Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina are grappling with the damage left in the wake of massive storm.
At least 22 people have died in the U.S. and at least 3 million coastal residents were evacuated. Flooding remains a concern in North Carolina, according to Gov. Pat McCrory.
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Bloomberg
Self-driving technology promises to pretty much transform the auto industry as we know it. It may also change the business of selling motorcycles — but in a very different way.
It all comes down to safety, according to Karl Viktor Schaller, head of development at BMW Motorrad. When robots are at the wheel, far fewer bikers will die on the road, which won’t be lost on all those people who pine for a motorcycle but have always been too scared to buy one.
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Government Executive
While most people spend a good proportion of their life at work, few will ever stop to consider whether their work is meaningful. “Meaningfulness” is not something that tends to feature in our daily thoughts, preoccupied as we often are by more mundane matters like rent, bills and lunch.
But when conversation with friends turns to complaints about work, we might fantasize giving it all up and living somewhere warm and sunny with no boss demanding round-the-clock attention.
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USA Today
The National Guard, State Highway Patrol and U.S. Coast Guard joined local first responders Tuesday in rescue operations across parts of North Carolina as rivers continued to overwhelm their banks, sending floodwaters racing through streets, homes and businesses.
Power remained out to hundreds of thousands of residents, and thousands were boiling their water amid the collateral damage wrought by Hurricane Matthew.
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The Seattle Times
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s new budget includes money to grow the Police Department by 72 officers over two years, put body cameras on cops and help test an acoustic gunshot-locator system, officials told the City Council. Under his proposed budget, the city would allocate $13 million to add 35 officers in 2017 and 37 officers in 2018.
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Nextgov
Well-behaved women seldom make history, though the same could be said for government employees.
“A lot of us in government get stuck with this idea that government can’t be bold because we don’t take action to make change,” said National Defense University Chancellor Jan Hamby at Bold Friday, an event hosted by Government Executive and Nextgov.
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Route Fifty
Recreational marijuana users can now legally light up a joint in states representing about 5 percent of the U.S. population. By the time Americans wake up on Nov. 9, that percentage could be swelling to more than one-quarter.
Measures to legalize and regulate the sale of cannabis are on the ballot in California, Arizona, Massachusetts, Maine and Nevada, and recent polls show the “yes” vote is winning in all five states.
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Government Executive
For busy people, life can sometimes feel like a battle to stave off chaos. The desk overflowing with scraps of paper, coffee cups, plants and photographs. The kids’ room strewn with toys and drawings. If we could only get everything organized, we think, everything would work so much better. Tim Harford, a British economist, author and journalist, has a different theory: Sometimes the mess is much, much better than precision and order.
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Governing
Through all but the last years of the 20th century, management theorists relied on the metaphor of organizations as machines. The model, developed in the scientific-management era, emphasizes tightly defined jobs, centralized decision-making and onerous regulations. In hindsight, it's not surprising that that model was adopted by those working to improve government.
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