Brian Peteritas

Recent Articles

• N.J. May Pay Recent Grads to Live in Poor Cities
• May 17, 2013
• Lawmakers in New Jersey have proposed paying part of college graduates' student loans if they agree to live in cities in need of revitalization.
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• Ohio to Join 2 Other States with Arsonist Registry
• Apr 26, 2013
• Looking to reduce the economic and human cost of arson, the state is creating an arsonist registry to make catching repeat offenders easier.

• First State to Pay Lawyers to Practice in the Country
• Apr 12, 2013
• To help rural America's drought of lawyers, South Dakota has passed the nation's first law to pay them to live and work in rural areas.

• New Revenue Booster: Selling Your City's Expertise?
• Apr 3, 2013
• The Canadian city of Edmonton has created a for-profit agency to sell its expertise in waste management to other cities around the world.

• Libraries Start Lending Unusual Items
• Mar 21, 2013
• Seeking to adapt to the changing demands of the digital age, some public libraries are beginning to loan out more than just books and movies.
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• NYC is 1st to Use Volunteer Techies to Improve Disaster Response
• Mar 14, 2013
• New York City has created the country's first municipal program that uses volunteer tech experts, including Facebook employees, to improve its emergency response.

• Fingerprinting Helps Homeless Shelters Provide Faster Service
• Mar 6, 2013
• New Jersey is expanding a local program that helps human services agencies get a more accurate picture of where and when aid is most needed.

• Using GPS to Track Drug Thefts
• Feb 15, 2013
• The NYPD will soon begin using 'bait bottles' of fake pain-killers equipped with invisible GPS devices to combat a rise in pharmacy robberies.

• Public Fitness Parks Aid Income-Health Inequality
• Jan 17, 2013
• A nonprofit is helping cities across the country fund free outdoor gyms in public parks to help combat the nation's obesity epidemic.
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• Cities Pushing to Record Conversations on Public Buses
• Dec 13, 2012
• Despite privacy concerns, a growing number of public transit agencies are adding audio surveillance to buses.
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• D.C. Uses Facebook to Grade Government Agencies
• Dec 4, 2012
• Customer feedback on social media has become invaluable to private businesses in recent years. Now, cities like Washington, D.C., are turning to it to grade their agencies.
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• New Female State Legislators Learn from Their Elders
• Nov 27, 2012
• A nonpartisan nonprofit helps newly elected female legislators learn how to serve their constituents better by pairing them with veteran lawmakers.
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• City- and County-Centered Wikis
• Nov 15, 2012
• Built on the same concept as a typical Wikipedia page, city and county-centered wikis are popping up around the country.

• Same-Sex Marriage Prevails in Four States
• Nov 7, 2012
• Voters in three states approved marriage for same-sex couples for the first time in history. In a fourth state, a measure to ban gay marriage was defeated.

• New Election Monitoring Platform Empowers Voters
• Nov 1, 2012
• MyFairElection aims to make voters more active in monitoring their polling places to improve the fairness and quality of the electoral process.