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By collecting information on people’s beliefs and practices during the coronavirus pandemic, researchers hope to create a clearer understanding of what policies are useful in the pandemic response.
The number of people working in local government continues to rise at a slow pace, and remains well below last year's level. However, the incoming administration has promised to prioritize state and local government aid.
We think we know it when we see it, but no one's come up with a perfect way to describe it in our complex metro landscape. A look at population data is a helpful place to begin.
Retrofitting ordinary curb space from free parking into “complete streets” will be a good move financially and aesthetically for all sorts of stakeholders. Incremental, bottoms-up approaches work the best.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced last week that the state would begin embracing a COVID-19 contact tracing smartphone app. But the app’s success is dependent on whether or not residents use it.
Many officials in the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are stepping down or expect to be fired as President Trump challenges the election’s results with claims of voting fraud.
The state has begun it’s by-hand ballot recounting and workers have until Nov. 20 to recount all five million ballots cast. The current margin between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is just 14,000 votes.
Presidential elections, your vote, and the quest for legitimacy. Unlike Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, President-elect Joe Biden appears to have won both the popular vote and the Electoral College.
Amber McReynolds and her group, the National Vote at Home Institute, played a major role in the success of the general election. She talks about lessons learned, and the future of vote-by-mail.
As the industry continues to grow, there could be as many as 3.5 million unfilled positions by 2021. To help fill this gap, Detroit’s cybersecurity industry is looking to find ways to build student interest and diversity.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra is optimistic about the fight, but if the court strikes down the health-care law the effect could be catastrophic. Experts don’t expect a decision from the court until Spring 2021.
The massive transit proposal only lost by 1,000 votes out of nearly 400,000 cast, but election officials aren’t inclined to ask for a recount. Many think that the pandemic and an overwhelmed electorate contributed to the failure.
An appellate court ruled that a small number of voters failed to provide state-required ID by the required deadline, which resulted in their votes being discounted. However, the ruling only applied to a small “batch” of votes.
In recent years, multiple candidates for governor and other state offices have declined to admit defeat. This has served to erode public trust and lessened cooperation among elected officials.
Getting away from our continuing reliance on legacy technology and moving toward a centralized organizational model would improve security organizations' ability to meet today's threats.
Hundreds of thousands of small businesses have closed because of the pandemic. A surge in new cases and unresolved election results are casting shadows on their year-end prospects, but recent bills offer help.
Butler County Job and Family Services have expanded their online services to allow clients to access Medicaid, food and cash assistance remotely. Officials hope that the services are now more accessible.
Only a quarter of young adults in Dallas County earn a living wage, a proportion that decreases for Blacks and Latinos. The county hopes to shrink the living-wage inequity by 2040.
As COVID cases continue to increase, many residents have voiced their opposition to using relief funds to purchase the police tech. The city is still waiting for guidance as to whether or not the purchase is legal.
Los Angeles County’s $300 million election system investment has paid off without any serious problems during last week’s voting. But mail-in ballots continue to trickle in around the state, slowing the final tally.
Republicans have claimed that Trump’s loss is a direct result of voter fraud and illegal ballots. Antrim County says the flawed results that were eventually corrected resulted from human error.
The winners in this year’s Digital Cities survey have long been following well-laid plans for modernizing infrastructure, cybersecurity and citizen services, meaning they were prepared to stand up to the pandemic.
Cities and suburbs moved further to the left in this year's elections, while rural areas swung right. But there were some surprises — and perhaps opportunities for conservatives — in the voting.
There has been a 111 percent increase in drive-by shootings that the city hopes to reduce in a pilot program to identify violent crime offenders. But privacy advocates have concerns about the plate-reading technology.
Most of the state has seen large Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the wake of the death of George Floyd and other Black people, but for some rural towns being a BLM ally means death threats and harassment.
Despite the seamless process on Election Day, election officials agree the elections system will need an overhaul if the state expects to see such large numbers of vote-by-mail ballots in future elections.
Georgia Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue have claimed “failures” with the November election while providing no evidence of such claims and are demanding that Secretary of State Raffensperger, a Republican, resign.
The way things worked out in Georgia reflected not only changes in demographics in a one-time citadel of the Confederacy but also the evolution of political beliefs and social attitudes.
Sedgwick County is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases and community spread. But a recent House bill limits what data contact tracers can collect without being at risk for misdemeanor penalties.
The state’s Attorney General commended the Public Utilities Commission of its efforts to jumpstart the state economy, but also says that the commission doesn’t have the macroeconomic experience to make those decisions.
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