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Voices: The Role of Mobile Printers Grows in Local Government and Public Safety

State Tech Magazine

In just a few years, the global mobile printer market has grown exponentially, from $290 million in 2014 to $2.89 Mobile printers — paired with flexible, simultaneous Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity — are frequently used in local government, particularly in public safety, law enforcement and voting.

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How Community Partners and Local Governments Collaborate to Address Heirs’ Property

Center for Community Progress

Data provided by Duval County Property Appraiser and Vital Statistics Data showed that heirs’ properties in Jacksonville doubled in count between the years 2014 and 2023. In response to this growing issue, LISC partnered with local community development corporations to canvass door-to-door and host educational community workshops.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Meehan, 2014).

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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. TB: Currently no local land bank in West Virginia has a dedicated full-time staff. The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year.

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Tech Trends: Microsoft to Introduce AI to Many Government Workers

State Tech Magazine

For state and local governments, Microsoft is poised to become one of the major suppliers of artificial intelligence solutions. Collins, who served as state CIO of Delaware from 2014 to 2020, shared AI insights specific to government agencies. STATETECH…

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HR Innovation: Mentirement

ASPA National Weblog

Take my retirement in 2014. After 36 years within state and local government (and in many roles) I filed retirement documents about 90 days in advance of my final date. No, I am not advocating for the mass retirement of men. Instead, I am making a case for retirees mentoring replacements before they retire.

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Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement Could Be the Missing Piece in Fighting Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

These properties, as Community Progress Senior Fellow Alan Mallach recently discussed on NPR’s 1A , actively harm neighbors and neighborhoods by threatening public health and safety, keeping residents from building wealth, and destabilizing local government finances.