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Tina Trenkner

Tina Trenkner

Deputy Editor, GOVERNING.com

Tina Trenkner (@TinaTrenkner) is GOVERNING.com deputy web editor. She started at GOVERNING in 2009 and has covered stories such as the rise of the coder in local government and the risks of using social media. Previously, she worked for Education Week and Pre-K Now, a completed project from the Pew Center on the States. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and thinks of Evanston often.

 

NBA Star Shaquille O'Neal, who says these lines in a PSA with Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason that addresses protecting kids from Internet predators. This week, an iPhone app called the Shaq Shield went live, allowing access to the Ohio sex offender registry and tips for parents to monitor their children's Internet activity and flag signs of dangerous communication.
The CIO of Texas' Lower Colorado River Authority says don't try to control all the technology in the organization from within a central entity.
Bryan Sivak speaks about why failure is a necessary part of innovation.
The lack of money for bridge repairs is symptomatic of a larger problem: Transportation projects in general are going to slip behind.
Harvard professor William Hsiao brings Taiwan’s health-care system to Vermont.
Florida’s teletrauma pilot helps create a network of specialists available to the most remote of patients.
Concerns about public employee confusion over financial options led North Carolina Treasurer Janet Cowell to rethink how her department shapes and shares personal finance info.
A recent transparency conference provided one Virginia local official the opportunity to explain the challenge governments like his face in embracing transparency initiatives.
A zone of privacy must exist in the world of transparent government.
States are increasingly utilizing prison labor to plug budget holes, but public employee unions aren’t happy.