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Officials reported that the issues experienced during the March primary were partially the result of the new $300 million voting system. “The Registrar-Recorder has a lot of work to do regaining the confidence of the public.”
The parks, trails and other outdoor amenities that make up our civic commons are crucial to building stronger, more equitable communities. Transforming them calls for a collaborative effort.
The program, a cluster of tax loopholes, is making fat cats fatter without doing much about racial inequities and urban joblessness. There are ways to reform it to benefit those it was touted to help.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission unanimously voted to replace 492 human workers with all-electronic systems. The commission says the layoffs will save nearly $100 million over the next two years.
COVID-19 has transformed telemedicine into a widely utilized option for patients to receive safe health services. However, if patients don’t have computers, Internet or don’t speak English, it doesn’t work.
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown thousands of new applicants into the state’s unemployment system, overwhelming claims processing and phone calls. But these issues have been happening for years.
A study by Vanderbilt University has found that the state’s COVID-19 hospitalizations have increased 30 percent since early June. Between June 15 and June 16, 448 coronavirus patients were hospitalized across the state.
Dramatic increases in suicide rates had attracted attention well before the unprecedented stresses of the pandemic. Legislators are proposing measures to keep a bad situation from getting worse.
Missouri’s Department of Labor will reinstate unemployment benefit requirements that were waived during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, including a one-week waiting period and required job-seeking efforts.
The city council has approved a slimmer budget as the city expects a $103 million revenue loss for the upcoming fiscal year. Notably, the proposal cuts $23 million that typically goes to law enforcement.
The $1 trillion proposal would jumpstart the U.S. economy after months of shutdowns due to the coronavirus. Though the plan isn’t finalized, lawmakers are wondering where the money would come from.
Once a playground for the rich and famous, Adirondack Park today relies heavily on middle-class visitors for business and sustainability. But now, uncertainty reigns, as COVID-19 puts lives and livelihoods on hold.
There's a good chance that midsize cities and smaller towns in the heartland will see renewed interest from companies looking for places that combine desirable amenities with sparser populations.
Many of America’s founders were slaveholders yet wrote eloquently about the rights of man. To understand Jefferson, Washington and the rest, we need to see them for what they are, not for what we wish they had been.
Gov. DeSantis signed the Essential State Infrastructure bill that would establish more electric vehicle (EV) charging stations along state highways, in hopes of reducing the impacts of climate change.
Ohio’s sixth-largest city still does not require police officers to wear body cameras. But, as protests have called for greater police transparency and reform, Mayor Whaley is beginning to reconsider the technology.
500,000 Houstonians lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. As the city begins to reopen, it must establish a new working normal as recovery will still take months or even years.
Mayor Ted Wheeler called for a reorganization of the current civilian oversight system of the city’s police, though many are waiting to see the mayor’s words turn into actions first.
Attorneys general have the power to oversee the police departments in their states that need to be turned around. Solutions handed down from Washington are slow, cumbersome and unevenly applied.
Especially amid coronavirus concerns, voters are receiving more of their election information online. This means that candidates must combat disinformation from bots and trolls in addition to convincing voters.
Across the state, more than 1,000 private labs run tests, collecting DNA swabs and personal information. Standards for data collection vary, raising data security concerns. Some labs have no previous health-care experience.
California’s Legislature recessed in mid-March over concerns of the spread of the coronavirus. Now, the legislators are back but many aren’t pleased with how the governor is still enacting his powers.
There have been Black Lives Matter protests in more cities and towns than any set of demonstrations in U.S. history. Rather than traveling to the nearest big city, residents are determined to take a stand close to home.
Google and Apple paired up to produce software allowing health departments to create apps that trace how COVID-19 spreads. But most states aren't interested in the system and most Americans don't want tracing apps at all.
After decades of revival, they've been dealt severe blows across multiple dimensions by the coronavirus pandemic, putting them in danger of a period of extended decline.
The challenge for government's information security executives is to integrate risk-mitigating technology into core services and processes — and to play the long game.
The state is spending millions of dollars on contact tracing, but only 48 percent of those infected are answering the call from contact tracers, reducing the effectiveness of its response to the coronavirus.
The Census Bureau claims to have improved its ability to provide accurate data without risking the privacy of its responses, but experts are concerned there isn’t time to test the method before the data is published.
The state altered unemployment benefit payments from weekly to biweekly without notifying any of the applicants or recipients. A spokesperson claims the weekly payments were only to help offset the pandemic emergency.
Responding to national protests, Gov. Whitmer called for an increase in police training on implicit bias and de-escalation techniques as well as other measures to ensure safety and trust across the state.
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