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It shouldn't be about Republicans favoring suburbs or Democrats favoring cities. Cities and their suburbs will succeed or fail together. We need reforms and dialogue that benefit both.
Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, commenting on the low priority investments in technology to track data in real time by public health agencies. (Governing — December 1, 2020)
The amount of the latest COVID-19 relief bill that was proposed by bi-partisan members of the House of Representatives. The package would include $228 billion in paycheck protection funds for hotels, restaurants and other small businesses as well as an additional $300 weekly to unemployment benefits.
Two U.S. cities were chosen to participate in a global initiative to test new technologies and policies for a more sustainable and equitable cityscape. Also joining in the pilot project is San Jose, Calif.
Of the state’s 35 largest workplace outbreaks, safety officials received warnings before 23 occurred and only inspected two of them. OSHA has received 11,000 complaints about COVID safety risks and violations.
The dashboard will collect coronavirus data from schools and combine it with information from the state’s health department to create a better understanding as to when it's safe to return to a classroom.
As COVID-19 numbers increase across California, Black and Latino residents are, yet again, disproportionately impacted. The reason for the disparities are unclear, but hard hit are the nursing homes.
The incoming administration could mean significant changes for technology, especially where federal cybersecurity is concerned. The increased attention will no doubt mean big changes for state and local governments as well.
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In this episode, we hear from a retiree whose employer ended their group Medicare plan and replaced it with a Medicare marketplace. She shares her experience and insights on why she prefers this change.
Susanne Wigforss, a Swedish citizen who lives in Stockholm, said of the coronavirus stimulus check she received due to an IRS error. Wigforss is not a “resident alien” but worked in California for several years and so receives a small Social Security payment, which is what triggered the IRS error. The U.S. government is unable to estimate how much money was erroneously spent in stimulus checks for non-eligible people. (NPR — November 30, 2020)
The number of people who traveled through airports on Sunday, the greatest number of travelers since the pandemic hit the U.S. in March. However, the numbers are still half of those who traveled a year ago.
The police department found that the Tesla Model S 85 met the performance needs of being a patrol vehicle and was cost-effective. Now the city plans to replace more patrol and city vehicles with electric options.
More than 300 medical providers and nonprofit organizations in Lackawanna County received $73.8 million in coronavirus aid, but officials say it isn’t enough to cover their losses. Many are hoping for a second round of aid.
State Auditor Pat McCarthy has criticized the employment department director for imposing constraints on the audit investigating the agency’s slow response to the state’s multimillion-dollar loss to job benefit fraud.
The California city will vote on the proposal on Tuesday and, if passed, natural gas will be banned from new commercial and high-rise residential buildings starting in August 2021.
The incoming administration’s ambitious goals of the nation becoming 100 percent clean energy and net-zero by 2050 could produce more clean energy jobs for rural Michiganders, especially for Detroit’s automobile market.
Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was removed from his position after disputing President Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
The election of 1800 was the first time power was transferred from one political party to another. Hoping for a smooth transition involving prominent Founding Fathers, the country ended up with a constitutional crisis.
Coronavirus dashboards are built on a pyramid of faxes, spreadsheets and phone calls. Public health technology investments have lagged behind other data-driven systems, making real-time information impossible to come by.
Larry Rother, senior executive director of pre-kindergarten through 12th grade educational services in Chandler, Ariz., commenting on the impossible situation that schools are in during the coronavirus pandemic. (Reuters — Nov. 25, 2020)
The number of seconds between COVID-related deaths last Tuesday as the U.S. death toll reached 2,157 deaths in a single day, the highest since May.
California’s employment agency faces hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefit claims fraud as scammers and inmates have filed for and collected jobless pay.
Many are worried that the unclear and poorly executed pandemic response from the state will be only further exacerbated if Thanksgiving does, in fact, become a superspreader event.
For many rural workers in Fresno, taking unpaid time off of work to travel great distances for a COVID test isn’t feasible. And many don’t get tested because even if they have it, they can’t afford to miss work.
Elections – like Georgia's runoffs – that require majority support can sometimes be used to exclude those in the minority.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way our country operates, forcing government officials, healthcare professionals, and corporate buyers to deal with unprecedented procurement challenges.
A new book from Harvard Business Review provides policymakers with practical help on how to catch up with and adapt to rapid change in democratic capitalism at the end of a weird year.
Five democratic senators, in a letter to Facebook and Twitter, urging the social media companies to fight misinformation, particularly in Spanish, regarding the November election and the upcoming Georgia runoff. (The Hill — November 24, 2020)
The number of toilet paper rolls that an Oregon man tried to steal from a residence in Walla Walla County, Wash. The toilet paper has since been recovered.
Women continue to leave the workforce to meet childcare needs at a disproportionate rate compared to men. Experts are worried this could create greater challenges in finding work and increasing wages in the future.
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