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Route Fifty
The election of Donald Trump has left the Democratic party defanged. Despite winning the popular vote, the Democrats now face four years of a radically right wing executive and at least two years in the minority in both houses of Congress.
But as they cast around for succor, there is still one major institution they overwhelmingly control: Cities.
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Emergency Management
Dispatchers work two 12-hour shifts that cover both day and night, and are, in a sense, the real first responders who come across potentially life-and-death situations by answering 911 calls made by desperate people caught in an unforeseen crisis.
Michele Racca, a dispatcher who is a training coordinator, said she has answered calls in her 15 years “on the floor” that can raise anyone’s blood pressure and heighten stress levels.
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ReadWrite
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has announced the selection of 10 start-up companies to be part of EMERGE 2016: Wearable Technology, an accelerator program designed to bring start-ups, accelerators and other strategic partners together in a common research and development effort. First responders such as police, fire and emergency services have a tremendous need for devices such as body-worn electronics, advanced sensors, and integrated voice and data communications embedded within their gear.
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Property Casual 360
With winter on the way, the promise of snow and freezing temperatures looms for many businesses — along with risks of slips and falls, burst pipes, service interruptions and more. Companies that have a good understanding of winter-related exposures and take proactive measures to mitigate them are better positioned to protect the public and their employees and properties and manage their total cost of risk.
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NextGov
For more than a year, Michael Moore has been trying to capture the breath of whales.
It’s an audacious idea, but Moore has help. A marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, he’s rigged a fleet of small unmanned aerial vehicles — UAVs, or drones — with samplers to catch whales’ exhalations from above.
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Government Executive
Whether you’re on one end of the spectrum or the other, somewhere in between or haven’t figured out yet where you are, it feels pretty safe to conclude that the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States represents a seismic shift in the world. So, what’s next? Who really knows?
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Campus Safety
As sexual assault and other college safety issues continue to attract national attention, schools have rightly invested in programs and initiatives designed to improve the safety of the campus population and comply with Title IX. New departments, counseling services, call lines and other means of victim support are common sights on campuses for good reason: the federal government is looking for them, the public expects them and victims deserve them.
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Governing
Nearly half of America’s 100 biggest cities are electing mayors this month, and most of the winners will come floating into office on a tide of promises, some of them achievable and some so ambitious that the candidates themselves don’t have a clue how to pull them off.
Many will have vowed to be “education mayors” — school reformers who will generate test results so much improved as to make their communities magnets for the affluent residents they are competing to attract.
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