Tina Trenkner

Recent Articles

• Groceries at the Library
• Apr 29, 2010
• Libraries are evolving to offer a wider variety of services, including grocery ordering and pick up.

• Safeguarding Delivery Workers
• Apr 22, 2010
• Restaurant delivery workers have a potentially dangerous job, often traveling by themselves, sometimes late at night. In New York City, there have been reports of...

• Searching for Cybersecurity Talent
• Apr 15, 2010
• The Obama Administration says that an unsecure digital infrastructure vulnerable to cyberattacks could pose big problems for the country's national security. To recruit individuals with...

• Blowing Up Bridges?
• Apr 8, 2010
• If your county needs to demolish a major structure but doesn't have the funds to do so, where can commissioners turn? One Pinellas County, Florida...

• Millennials, Internships and Government
• Apr 6, 2010
• Last week, Governing's Public Workforce newsletter writer, Heather Kerrigan, and I were throwing around some potential story ideas to cover this summer. One topic ...

• Greening Historic Buildings
• Apr 1, 2010
• Dubuque, Iowa's most sustainable buildings are a century old--and older. The Victorian homes, aging storefronts and 19th-century warehouses are sustainable in that they're positioned to...
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• Judges and Truancy Teams
• Apr 1, 2010
• Truancy, or unexcused absences from school, can be an early indicator of potential troubling behaviors. In Maryland, truants at select schools may be able to...

• Guns on Campus
• Mar 31, 2010
• After the 2007 Virginia Tech tragedy and in the wake of the recent University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting, people who study or work on a...

• Race to the Top's First Round Winners
• Mar 30, 2010
• The U.S. Department of Education announced the first winners of Race to the Top, the $4.35 billion grant program encouraging states to make big reforms ...

• Ohio A.G. Protects Small Biz
• Mar 7, 2010
• In Ohio, if a small business had a problem with dishonest vendors or unfair practices, they had few options to make things right. The state's...

• Stopping Overdoses with a Spray
• Mar 1, 2010
• Saving someone from a drug overdose could be as easy as administering a nose spray. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced last week that...

• Agriculturists Vs. Animal Advocates
• Mar 1, 2010
• In 2008, almost two-thirds of California voters passed Proposition 2, the Standards for Confining Farm Animals initiative. This initiative - supported by animal advocates to phase out...
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• Online Metrics for Government Sites
• Feb 23, 2010
• Governments have performance data to judge the efficiency of the programs they put in place. Naturally, online sites have metrics too. How soon will that ...
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• Two Years of High School, then College?
• Feb 22, 2010
• Traditionally, U.S. high school students complete four years of coursework before they receive their degree and enroll in college courses. But according to the...

• A British Take on 'The Next Age of Government'
• Feb 16, 2010
• Last month, when I spoke to e-communications firm Delib founder Chris Quigley (who filmed a short documentary about President Obama's Open Government memo one ...