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In the 18th annual Digital Counties Survey, leading jurisdictions had made investments in broadband, remote collaboration and digital citizen engagement long before COVID-19 tested whether they were up to the challenge.
Before he was our fifth president, Monroe was Virginia’s governor at a time when yellow fever was deadly and hard to control. Setting aside ideology, he prevented a health crisis despite his disdain for strong government.
The Trump administration's ban on evictions will prevent millions from losing their homes ahead of the election. Those who are already homeless, however, may find themselves disenfranchised.
New York City has announced the possibility of laying off up to 22,000 municipal workers due to coronavirus cutbacks. Yet, the city is still maintaining $163 million in contracts with companies like Deloitte and KPMG.
Before the pandemic, state officials were receiving about 200 workplace safety complaints each month. During the pandemic, that has increased to more than 200 every week. Many of them are COVID-related.
The legislation would expedite the state’s sustainable transit projects by cutting down on driving and reducing carbon emissions while providing a boost to struggling transit authorities. It is headed to Gov. Newsom’s desk.
States must begin establishing coronavirus plans for the November election, but some legislatures can’t agree on what’s best. For Louisiana, that means a federal court judge will decide.
They can't completely replace in-person meetings, but conducting more public business online reduces costs, gives more people a voice and cuts down on disruption. It also can lead to better policy.
Life is an unpredictable collision of people and events that set our lives' trajectory and shape who we become. In this special episode of "In The Arena," host Cathilea Robinett talks intimately of the collision of people and events that have helped define the woman she is today.
Big cities like San Francisco and New York have suffered as companies flee. But secondary markets like Dayton can leverage their exceptionally low costs, great infrastructure and higher quality of life to gain market share.
State legislators proposed a $100 billion stimulus plan that would increase weekly unemployment benefits for unemployed workers, but the legislative session is ending before the extra support has been formalized.
The Secretary of State is encouraging voters to use drop boxes for the upcoming presidential election instead of sending ballots by mail, as concerns grow that the Postal Service’s new changes will impede reliability.
The county hoped to become 20 percent renewable by 2022 but that may no longer be feasible. The pandemic has radically changed the county’s budget, funding sources and financial focus which may delay sustainability.
Since 2016, at least nine states have restored voting rights to some people with felonies.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is warning Detroit voters of a fraudulent robocall that discourages voting by mail in the upcoming election. The actual source of the call remains unknown.
A cyberattack on SEPTA, the city’s transit authority, may have exposed personal information for 9,300 employees, including Social Security numbers and banking information. Officials have known about the attack for weeks.
The Postal Service plays a critical role in the supply chains of small businesses and in keeping rural America connected. There's no reason it can't continue to do so despite its financial woes.
Thousands of residents have borrowed mobile Wi-Fi devices throughout Dallas to keep them connected to remote learning or working. But as school restarts, the demand still exceeds the number of available devices.
With employees now working remotely and an increase in cyberattacks, keeping sensitive data secure has become more difficult, especially for data on legacy systems, which lawmakers want modernized.
Carl Sedoryk, CEO of Monterey-Salinas Transit, explains how his agency went from moving not just people, but also food and medical services, while providing Internet service for families as the pandemic upended bus service.
Community hospitals took loan money from Congress to cope with the surge in patients during the height of COVID-19. But the loans will soon fall due and many medical centers don’t know how they will pay the money back.
Many workers foresee working from home to be a long-term situation and working from the kitchen table isn’t suitable any more. So how do you create an office without returning to work? By introducing the backyard commute.
While workers and customers are contracting COVID-19, legally it is hard to prove exactly where the person contracted the virus. So far this detail has protected businesses, but some think it’s time for that to change.
In addition to managing unprecedented unemployment numbers, states have to avoid processing thousands of fraudulent benefits claims. Sorting it all out takes time, only further delaying relief for legitimate claimants.
In the absence of substantial pandemic aid from Washington, there might be a role for the central bank: longer-term loans. But let's not create another perpetual-deficit machine.
With the highest incarceration rate in the developed world, America’s overcrowded prisons have become hotbeds for COVID-19. Now, the virus has accelerated efforts already underway by lawmakers to reform prison policies.
A new study suggests that age, gender and even the region of the country being targeted with virus-tracking technology could have a lot to do with its success rate. Experts urge a tailored approach.
San Diego County adopted a $6.55 billion budget that it hopes will be enough to support the community through continued COVID response, predicted wildfires and ongoing issues like homelessness and affordable housing.
Harris County will have more than 100 places to cast ballots, including one drive-through and one 24-hour voting center. There will also be an extra week of early voting and 12,000 new election workers.
Up to 4 million Californians risk eviction if the COVID-19 renter protections expire on Sept. 2. Some hope to extend relief for renters, but many are concerned that it’s just a temporary fix to a larger problem.
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