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By Scott E. Rupp
 Employee well-being is dependent on several factors, it seems, including workplace productivity, job satisfaction and employee retention. These factors are tied to employee physical health and financial well-being, according to a new survey, entitled "Working Well: A Global Survey of Workforce Wellbeing Strategies." According to the survey, 40 percent of the organizational leaders interviewed said they believe they have created a culture of well-being in 2018 compared to only 33 percent in 2016. Of those who have not achieved such a result, 81 percent said they "aspire to achieve a culture of wellbeing."
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Property Casualty 360
Ahead of winter’s major weather events, officials at the Kansas Insurance Department have outlined preparedness tips for residents to protect themselves during future blizzards and other extreme weather events.
In addition to their insurance tips outlined in the slideshow above, Department officials advise drivers to keep emergency kits in their vehicles, especially for long trips.
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Government Technology
Big cities have big tech contracts. Big cities attract corporate innovation efforts. Big cities have resources to try interesting new things.
But they’re the minority. In fact, the number of small cities, towns and villages in the U.S. is astronomically higher than the number of large and even mid-sized cities. According to 2017 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau — the latest available — about 47 percent of all municipalities in the country have fewer than 1,000 people living in them.
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Los Angeles Times
Our current approach to wildfire is killing us. Instead of making communities fire safe, we’re mostly trying to manage habitat to suppress fire, and it’s failing to protect our lives and our property. Bureaucratic inertia and hubris are preventing needed change. Until the public understands the true nature of wildfire and demands the same of government, the staggering losses will continue to mount.
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Emergency Management
Behind a chain-linked fence along Fifth Avenue between C and D streets in San Rafael, workers using a crane hoisted a bundle of steel beams that would be integrated into the framework of what will soon be a new $36 million public safety building.
“Right now we are erecting steel beams and columns for the first and second floor,” said Jorge Meza, the project manager with Kitchel CEM of Sacramento who is overseeing work.
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You can’t plan for a crisis while having one! We can all agree that “winging it” isn’t a successful plan, but relying on organizational charts for your internal FEMA claims crew may be just as unsuccessful. To identify the necessary traits, skills, and abilities ahead of a disaster, click here.
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Governing
Over-the-Rhine has been one of the biggest urban success stories of recent years. The neighborhood, which is just north of downtown Cincinnati, was in deep disrepair two decades ago, with thousands of residential units sitting vacant, turning into what amounted to an open-air drug market.
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Future Structure
DriveOhio is taking to the skies.
DriveOhio and the Ohio UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) Center in Springfield on Wednesday announced a plan to research how drones can help traffic control.
"Companies operating new UAS technologies need opportunities to test and deploy them, and the nation needs a traffic management system that can make drone package delivery and transportation safe and commercially viable. We aim to do all of this in Ohio," Jim Barna, executive director of DriveOhio, said in a news release.
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CNN via WISC-TV
Every man-made thing that burned, burned all the way.
That is the powerful first impression driving into Paradise after America's deadliest wildfire in 100 years.
There are a few scorched-but-recognizable husks of gas stations or curio shops but most of the 14,000 homes that caught an ember burned with such blowtorch intensity, only railings and the fireplace remain.
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By Seth Sandronsky
 Nonfarm payroll jobs rose 155,000 in November, down from 250,000 in October, while the rate of unemployment remained at 3.7 percent for the third straight month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. In November, the number of jobless workers was 6.0 million workers versus 6.1 million in October. November’s jobs report could be a harbinger of slower growth due to the U.S. and China imposing retaliatory import tariffs. That conflict is on pause now, though existing tariff impacts on businesses and consumers continue.
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