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- N.J. May Pay Recent Grads to Live in Poor Cities
- Lawmakers in New Jersey have proposed paying part of college graduates' student loans if they agree to live in cities in need of revitalization.
- Ohio to Join 2 Other States with Arsonist Registry
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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- Space Satellite Connects Rural Health Clinics to Broadband
- To connect mobile health units in the hills of rural New England with broadband access, policymakers are looking up -- all the way to space.
- Cities Pushing to Record Conversations on Public Buses
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Built on the same concept as a typical Wikipedia page, city and county-centered wikis are popping up around the country.
- New Election Monitoring Platform Empowers Voters
- MyFairElection aims to make voters more active in monitoring their polling places to improve the fairness and quality of the electoral process.
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- A Third Way for Public Pensions: Adjustable Pension Plans
- Defined-benefit plans put all the risk on states and localities; defined-contribution plans put it all on employees. Now there's a new approach to risk sharing.
- Bike Lane Battles Heat Up
- Cities like San Francisco and Chicago are running into resistance from drivers as they try to meet demand for more bike lanes.
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