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Some government employers are exploiting the peculiar rules of public finance to transfer public assets or cash from clever deals to their pension funds. But there’s risk to taxpayers when it’s magic beans and shell games.
More women than ever are serving in state legislatures. But an interview with the longest-serving woman legislator reveals just how slow change has been in bringing an end to gender inequities in statehouses.
Gina Coplon-Newfield, director of the Sierra Club’s Clean Transportation For All campaign, commenting on the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to only electrify about 10 percent of the USPS delivery trucks. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has said the mail company would need as much as an additional $4 billion to make the USPS fleet 90 percent electric. (NPR — March 10, 2021)
The age at which people are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Alaska, which is the first U.S. state to remove eligibility requirements.
Rancho Mirage, Calif., will soon have the nation’s first community of 15 eco-friendly homes created from 3D printers. The homes sold out within minutes and two buyers paid their deposit in bitcoin.
COBOL is a 50-year-old programming language that some say government should get away from. But it could still have a place in modern IT organizations.
It would address the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. while boosting revenue to address the public health and economic crisis caused by the pandemic.
Some cities are paving the way to getting beyond outdated governance and funding structures, creating viable alternatives to our antiquated institutions for distributing transportation resources.
It’s premature for states to lift mask mandates. Relying on personal choice isn’t enough when the decline in COVID-19 cases has stalled and potentially more-lethal variants are showing up around the country.
California State Sen. Connie Leyva, regarding the California bill that would protect employees who discuss discrimination or other difficulties based on race, ethnicity, age, disability and religion. Many tech companies require their employees to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements, which legally bar the employee from talking about things that happen at the company. (NPR — March 6, 2021)
The number of crashes that self-driving vehicle company Waymo simulated across nine years and found that its artificial intelligence driver was able to avoid or mitigate all of the crashes except for those where the vehicle was hit from behind.
The ACLU challenged Baltimore’s use of an aerial crime surveillance plane, claiming the surveillance program infringes on privacy rights. Supporters merely say the technology is controversial, not unconstitutional.
950 lithium-ion batteries will not only store excess output from solar and wind power plants, they will also ensure the electric grid is more reliable. Lawmakers want to encourage more projects like this.
An email exchange reveals that Tesla has been marketing two different stories regarding self-driving vehicles: one that promises the technology’s much-touted autonomy and another that assures the DMV the tech is far off.
The trial of the former city police officer has become a proxy for the state of racial tension in America, and perhaps the impetus for completing what the civil rights movement began in the 1960s.
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Gov. Cuomo wouldn't be the first politician to ride out a political storm. If he does manage to survive, it might suggest the #MeToo movement has lost some of its sting.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, regarding the coronavirus pandemic’s economic impact on women and the need for improved long-term measures to boost labor market conditions for women. (Reuters — March 8, 2021)
The number of homes that can be powered on a hot summer day by a 100 megawatt battery that Tesla subsidiary Gambit Energy Storage LLC is building in Angleton, Texas.
If HR1 becomes federal law, it may not have a substantial impact on Washington state’s election protocols. Still, Secretary of State Kim Wyman has voiced concern over its lack of bipartisanship.
Federal and state regulations that required two weeks of paid leave to recover from COVID-19 expired on Jan. 1, leaving many state workers with the mandated minimum of just three days sick leave.
The Colorado city has stated that “all options are currently on the table” to complete the long-awaited transit service from Boulder County. Officials claim the rail line proposed on the 2004 ballot is taking too long.
In both public and private organizations, chief information security officers have shorter tenures than CIOs. Why do cybersecurity heads so quickly leave jobs — or get forced out?
New Jersey is spending $190 million to revitalize Newark’s historic art deco Penn Station. One of the busiest transit hubs in the country will be restored after nearly 90 years of service.
The American Society of Civil Engineers gave our airports, roads, bridges and drinking water a C- in its latest report card, calling it a modest improvement. But the bill on progress is a long way from being paid off.
Former Stockton, Calif., Mayor Michael Tubbs, regarding the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) program, which gave randomly selected residents $500 a month for two years without any contingencies, and the benefits that the program produced over those two years. An independent study of the program found the participants were mostly spending the money on basic needs, which improved the participants’ financial, physical and emotional health. (NPR — March 4, 2021)
The proportion of parents who are “worried that my child will be behind when the pandemic is over,” according to a recent poll. Many parents worry their child is missing out on the non-academic aspects that school teaches, with one-quarter of parents concerned that their child is falling behind in “time management” and 22 percent of parents concerned about their child’s socialization and communication skills.
York, Pa., officials are looking to implement a video surveillance network to help bring down crime rates, but critics argue the technology would negatively impact minority communities.
As the Biden administration works to approve another relief funds package to states, some officials are split over whether the money is really needed. Democrats welcome the support while Republicans say it's unnecessary.
Some state residents waited for six hours to speak to someone regarding their unemployment payments, which hadn’t arrived months after filing. Hold time has since decreased, but many still await their payments.
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