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With projected shortfalls of $300 million over the next 26 months, Cole may have become a canary in a coal mine for all city executives in the high stakes world of leading after COVID-19.
University of Maryland will use robots to help increase the state’s testing capacity to up to 20,000 daily. However, the tests can only run as long as they have cotton swabs to take samples, and swabs are in short supply.
Like many U.S. cities, Vancouver expects to lose at least $30 million during the coronavirus shutdown, but is also making plans to shoulder even greater loss. “We don’t yet know what, truly, the final impact will be.”
Many companies had been resistant to employees working from home, but the coronavirus pandemic has shown that it’s very feasible and functional. Working from home has great benefits and should be continued post-pandemic.
Researchers found the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases could be as much as 55 times higher than originally thought. Officials believed there were about 8,000 confirmed cases early on, but there could be more than 440,000.
The coronavirus has shown that they can't count on their states or Washington for everything they need. But higher levels of government could provide funding for cities and counties to do the basics.
Leaders from special districts in California, Illinois and New Jersey, with widely varied responsibilities, talk about maintaining operations, as well as functioning remotely, during the pandemic.
The governors are calling for a quick $500 billion to offset plummeting tax revenues. But we don't know how long a pandemic recession will last or how deep it will be. We should be guided by hard data.
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In the last month, the COVID-19 pandemic has flipped our country on its head.
As Washington state enacted stay-at-home orders, rural residents were suddenly cut off from their work and school. While broadband access has been a long-term issue, COVID-19 is finally bringing eastern Washington’s digital divide to the forefront.
Though Georgia has a large financial reserve, it relies on income and sales taxes to provide the salaries for many of its state workers. Some predict the state could see a $1.27 billion loss in sales tax revenue.
California is divided on the implementation of 5G: many are concerned of the potential adverse health effects it could cause, while others believe it could help make remote learning and working better.
We’re at the height of this epidemic, so the collapse of the Mandan Indian Nation in North Dakota in the late 18th and early 19th centuries from outbreaks of smallpox is a reminder of how ignorance can be so deadly.
This week’s newsletter looks at how the crisis has brought new challenges to cybersecurity leaders and what they are doing about it. And, will contact tracing — a key to helping us return to normal — jeopardize our privacy?
Muskegon, Mich., Community College has approved a 4 percent tuition increase for the next year. While the college needs the financial increase, many students suffering from coronavirus impacts might not be able to afford it.
Corporations are also receiving financial aid from the coronavirus stimulus package, but their refunds are much greater than for families. It could end up costing the federal budget $275 billion over the next decade.
California said it secured 200 million masks per month, but the Newsom administration won’t pay until there is assurance that the masks are coming. In total, the state plans to spend $7 billion on coronavirus response.
The House is slowly moving toward a remote voting system that would require each member to vote and wouldn’t be susceptible to hacking. But many are still concerned about the plan’s allowance for proxy voting.
Colleges and universities face a worse situation than the Great Recession. States are bound to cut their budgets, while every other revenue source — tuition, dorm fees, donations, endowments — are under pressure.
California had planned to spend $187 million on ensuring an accurate Census count. However, much of that money was going to be spent on face-to-face outreach. Now the state must rely on online outreach until things reopen.
Alaska’s plan for increasing broadband has ended after its partnering satellite broadband company filed for bankruptcy due to the coronavirus. “Rural Alaska is really hurting for additional capacity.”
Though the economy restart may be a month or more away, Connecticut’s governor has started discussion on what that could look like. Many are concerned that it requires too much public surveillance.
COVID-19 is hitting African Americans the hardest. Public officials could do far more about the social determinants of health that underlie the coronavirus's disparate impact.
The need to protect public health in the remaining primary elections, and uncertainty about the state of the coronavirus pandemic in November, are forcing legislators to consider changes to voting guidelines.
As governors take leading positions on how to manage the pandemic, the nearly forgotten cornerstone of the Constitution is relevant again. It’s a reminder of how federalism and our form of government works.
Three California cities have explored locating chargers for electric vehicles in the public right of way. The changes promise to help normalize zero-emissions vehicles across the state.
Schenectady, N.Y., is several millions short of completing its Smart City work that was planned for this year. Officials are hesitant to move forward with the plans in the midst of the coronavirus’ financial crisis.
Maine barely began reporting last week its numbers of hospitalized COVID-19 patients and still doesn’t provide information on non-resident cases despite having the highest proportion of vacation homes in the country.
Approximately 710,000 Ohio households don’t have any Internet service at home, leaving them unable to connect to work, school, health care or shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Walz said the state would restart its economy once it was testing 5,000 people for coronavirus each day. Since the beginning of the virus, the state has tested fewer than 38,000 people in total.
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