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New York state’s Lockport City School District must make a few policy tweaks before their facial recognition programs will be okayed. The tweaks will “prevent students’ photos from being programmed into the system.”
Telemedicine has been growing in Indiana since 2015, but there are still gaps in the coverage. For many rural patients, “inadequate Internet speeds or unreliable services can be a major barrier” to adequate care.
The lack of technological awareness is becoming more difficult to work around as Congress is confronting the complexities of cryptocurrencies, facial recognition and digital privacy on an almost daily basis. It’s time for Congress to shake the dust off and catch up.
Companies like Facebook and Google have ushered in change — much of it positive — for individuals, communities and governments. But we still have a responsibility to ask whether they're serving the public interest.
Funding for public colleges peaked in 2000 at $9,443 per student. In 2018, funding was $4,552 per student, placing Pennsylvania among the bottom of states for percentage of tax revenues allocated to higher education.
It’s the largest-ever legal award against the state of Oregon. A jury determined last week that the state had breached its contract with 13 rural counties by failing to maximize logging revenues on state land.
By using a public-private financing model to overcome a revenue shortfall, the county has been able to move closer to building a new $267 million courthouse to replace one that once housed a trial for gangster Al Capone.
From reporting on congress to building the first mobile streaming news network, small-town, North Dakotan Ed O’Keefe has extensive media experience. And as CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, O’Keefe is creating an experience that preserves and shares Roosevelt’s legacy.
With the switch to electronic storage, identity theft has become streamlined and efficient with just a few keystrokes. “You really can’t protect your information. All you can do is monitor it.”
As Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, continues to grow, transportation technology upgrades are inevitable and exciting. But officials don’t yet know which will solve the issues, so “they’re making plans for all of them.”
Colorado and California are already using technology that converts renewable energy into storable gas, and Maine hopes to be next. The technology could save Maine 75,000 megawatt hours of renewable power each year.
Our power plants may be dirty now. But unlike combustion vehicles, electric cars give us the chance to finally free ourselves from high-carbon travel
New technologies are poised to automate everything from infrastructure to traditionally human jobs, and some fear a coming robot takeover. But the real problem is it isn't happening fast enough.
Denver, Colo., has a complicated transit system troubled by the national decline in public ridership. But officials are hopeful that they will find a new GM: “I think there are some excellent people out there.”
A study found that 9 percent of Ohio residents don’t have access to broadband, which could be an expensive problem for census takers, considering that the 2020 Census will be mostly digital.
San Francisco will implement new taxes, as high as 3.25 percent, on Uber and Lyft rides beginning in January. The revenue will go to fixing Muni’s biggest problem: shortage of drivers.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a law requiring health insurers to keep online provider directories updated so that children who age out of foster care will be able to stay on MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program.
The Southern California startup FLOAT (Fly Over All Traffic) will begin flying passengers in January 2020. Flights will cost $60 a day and are targeted at super commuters who travel more than 90 minutes each way.
The Louisiana Department of Health has partnered with vendor MAXIMUS to streamline Medicaid enrollment, creating the Healthy Louisiana app. Eligible residents can use the app to compare health-care plans and find doctors.
During a last-minute hearing Friday, Louisiana Deputy CIO Neal Underwood revealed that last week's ransomware attack was the largest one to impact the state, but he stopped short of calling the attack catastrophic.
PG&E is under severe criticism about its power outages and wildfire-sparking equipment. The utility is now testing a proactive technology that would “identify potential equipment failures” and avoid starting fires.
Legislation legalizing scooters in the state is simply waiting for a signature from Gov. Cuomo, who is hesitating as the small vehicles have raised concerns with sidewalk and road safety across the country.
Just after an election cycle, the Indiana city suddenly requests $37.8 million from the Capital Improvement Board. But which is a more important use of taxpayer dollars: downtown projects or the electricity utility?
Ford, Volkswagen, Honda and BMW all decided to follow California’s strict emission regulations, despite Trump’s proposed cutbacks. It's hard to match products to regulations that depend “on who’s in power.”
University of Michigan faculty are pushing back with concerns about the center’s funding, location and the “conflicts created by capitalism’s dependency on racial and economic oppression and inequity.”
Mayor Eric Garcetti has abandoned his long-stated goal of getting the city's public employee unions to pay a portion of their healthcare costs. The policy reversal could cost the city and taxpayers millions of dollars.
New budget documents showed the state faces its worst fiscal problems since the recession, with projected budget deficits between $6 billion and $8 billion over the next three years amid ballooning costs for Medicaid.
Estimates indicate that Maine will take in $75 million more than anticipated for the two-year state budget that ends in June 2021. Sales and use taxes are likely to exceed budgeted amounts by $40 million.
Police are using DNA genealogical databases to find and arrest suspects without getting approval from the customers. There is little to no regulation of police usage of DNA websites, but customers’ privacy is at risk.
Cities are beginning to worry that a susceptibility to climate change could reduce the chance that partners will invest in them. No financial support means no funds for the infrastructure to protect against the climate.
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