GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
MARCH 5, 2025
The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is the main legal mechanism for the President to seek to delay or permanently cancel federal funding once it has been enacted by Congress. Todays WatchBlog post looks at what an impoundment is and GAOs role under.
State Tech Magazine
MARCH 5, 2025
In 2022, the ALPHV Ransomware as a Service group attacked the city of Alexandria, La., with its malware. Two years later, LockBit ransomware bandits attacked Wichita, Kans. Once novel RaaS gangs are increasing attacks against local governments, according to a raft of new cybersecurity threat reports. In their 2025 ransomware predictions, Zscaler experts say that the Ransomware as a Service model will continue to evolve with cybercrime groups specializing in designated attack tactics and stages.
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Policy & Politics Journal blog
MARCH 5, 2025
by Jeongyoon Lee and David Lee Policy actors often clash during policy processes, especially in contentious areas like climate change, gun control, and healthcare reform.
State Tech Magazine
MARCH 4, 2025
While organizations across sectors have made strides in recent years to address cybersecurity workforce shortages, there are still hundreds of thousands of jobs left unfilled. The latest available data shows that nearly 700,000 cybersecurity jobs remain open in the United States, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. And while this challenge is felt in both the public and private sectors, state and local governments face unique challenges in building and retaining thei
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A top-rated place to live, Gilbert, AZ struggled with outdated short-term rental management—low compliance, lost revenue, and growing administrative strain. By adopting the GovOS Tax & Compliance suite, the Town: Increased compliance from 40% to 90% Generated over $85K in new revenue Has a single digital system to manage tasks more efficiently With a centralized hub for short-term rental registration and enforcement, Gilbert balances tourism and community needs.
OpenGov
MARCH 4, 2025
Tax season is often synonymous with stress, inefficiencies, and frustration for local governments. Manual data entry, mountains of paperwork, and an endless cycle of chasing down delinquent payments create significant […] The post Property Taxes, Simplified: Smarter Collections, Stronger Communities appeared first on OpenGov.
Homeroom
MARCH 5, 2025
By: Scott Yenor In 1982, President Ronald Reagan proposed dismantling the Department of Education, an agency barely two years old. This was not as radical a move for his administration as it may sound to modern ears. Americans were not accustomed to such a massive role for the federal government in education, which had always Continue Reading The post Education: Whose Job Is It?
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State Tech Magazine
MARCH 3, 2025
In state and local government, system backups are essential to resilience and compliance, especially for emergency and nonemergency citizen services. But traditional full backups are time-consuming and can strain IT infrastructure, potentially slowing access to essential digital services. Synthetic full backups offer a more efficient alternative that demands less human effort and puts less load on the production system.
Barrett & Greene
MARCH 3, 2025
For years, weve been writing about the importance of good data, based upon which states, counties and cities can make good decisions. But as a growing number of practitioners and academics are relying on artificial intelligence as a source for all the information in the world (when we were children, the equivalent was the Encyclopedia Brittanica), the necessity of care for the accuracy and completeness of data rises even more in importance The well-written, if sometimes pedantic prose that AI ca
Center for Community Progress
MARCH 3, 2025
Illegal dumping is a chronic issue in communities with many vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties. When vacant lots become dumping grounds, this constant visual reminder of neglect also harms neighborhood morale and creates serious health and safety risks. Dealing with illegal dumping is time-consuming, frustratingand expensive. A city may remove 30 tires from a vacant lot only to find another pile dumped days later.
Super Library Marketing
MARCH 3, 2025
Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library Have you ever wondered what you could do for your library if you had more people working on promotions? Staffing up in library marketing is very uncommon. I believe this is a huge mistake that many libraries make. Leaders and board members dont understand the essential connection between smart, strategic library marketing and the organization’s success.
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Get this municipal maintenance guide that provides municipalities with a detailed and structured approach to maintaining city infrastructure. This guide outlines systematic inspection procedures and best practices, ensuring the safety, longevity, and operational efficiency of municipal assets. From roadways and bridges to public buildings and utilities, the guide covers all aspects of municipal maintenance.
FedTech Magazine
MARCH 5, 2025
Security fragmentation remains a significant challenge for departments managing hybrid cloud environments because their agencies often own independent on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Failure to align this infrastructure results in inconsistent security policies, visibility gaps and access management issues. These silos introduce vulnerabilities that cybercriminals can exploit, making it critical for agencies to adopt a comprehensive hybrid multicloud security strategy.
GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
MARCH 4, 2025
When Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank failed in 2023, they marked two of the largest bank failures in U.S. history. Some worried that other banks might fail too and that regulators had not done enough to prevent these and future failures. Today.
Google Public Sector
MARCH 5, 2025
Its indisputable. Over just a few short years, AI and machine learning have redefined day-to-day operations across the federal governmentfrom vital public agencies, to federally-funded research NGOs, to specialized departments within the militarydelivering results and positively serving the public good. We stand at a pivotal moment in time, a New Era of American Innovation , where AI is reshaping every aspect of our lives.
Open Access Government - Technology News
MARCH 5, 2025
In an era of escalating cyber threats, the healthcare sector, a prime target for data breaches, requires robust security. Voice biometrics emerges as a critical solution, offering secure, frictionless authentication amidst the vulnerabilities of traditional methods and the rise of deepfake voice attacks The healthcare industry is undergoing rapid digital transformation, revolutionising patient care, administrative efficiency, and data management.
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Digital transformation is reshaping government interactions, bringing agencies closer to the communities they serve. However, while many have adopted new digital tools, few have implemented comprehensive strategies to maximize their benefits. Our Strategic Workbook for Modern Government offers a step-by-step guide to developing a sustainable digital strategy.
FedTech Magazine
MARCH 3, 2025
CDW recently published a cloud computing proprietary research report, cautioning organizations to make wise investments in cloud to enable faster adoption of emerging technologies and to scale their use quickly. However, to take advantage of these benefits, their cloud strategies must reflect the rapid advances of technology as well as accelerating changes in business objectives and practices, notes the report, titled Whats Next in the Cloud?
GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
MARCH 6, 2025
Congress is increasingly focused on emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, and scientific discoveries that could reshape medicine, computing, and space exploration. Our nations leaders have also proposed legislation on how to balance.
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
MARCH 4, 2025
In December of 2024, Congress formally reauthorized the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) with strong bipartisan support. The EDA reauthorization (S. 3891) , the first in 20 years, is included as part of the Water Resources Development Act (S. 4367). The Economic Development Reauthorization Act of 2024 updates and modernizes the federal governments approach to economic development in light of the major changes in industry sectors, technology, labor markets, and global commerce that
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 5, 2025
In this ever-evolving region, 18 arenas of competition will present challenges and opportunities that determine the future of New York.
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Local governments and municipalities serving populations under 200,000 face distinctive challenges in delivering efficient and effective services to their communities. To overcome these challenges, many rely on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems tailored to their specific needs. Not all ERP systems are created equal, and some may hinder progress rather than support it.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
MARCH 3, 2025
Resilience is an illusion. In saying that I mean no disrespect to resilience officers, whose work is honourable, vital and necessary. However, whether resilience has as its goal to 'bounce back' or to 'bounce forward', it represents a tendency to seek homeostasis, in other words a quest for an eventual stable equilibrium. But in the disasters field we have no equilibrium.
The Lowe Down
MARCH 6, 2025
By Armine Kardashyan and Sofia Hofmann During the Second Wave of Feminism in the 1960s-1970s, the push for gender equality in higher education led most male-only universities in the United States to transition into coeducational institutions. Aligned with this trend, in 1976, 30 years after its founding, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) welcomed its first female students, now marking nearly 50 years of coeducation at the college.
GovLoop
MARCH 5, 2025
Quantum computing, like other emerging technologies, offers great promise: to turn the impossible into something practical. But quantum computers also jeopardize the carefully ordered algorithms that encrypt our data today and protect us from malicious actors. And thats a risk agencies cannot ignore. Transitioning to quantum-safe encryption isnt the work of a day, week or month.
Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast
MARCH 4, 2025
In this podcast we explore what makes for effective alerts and warnings with one of the preeminent scholars and researching these topics today. Jeannette Sutton, Ph.D., specializes in disaster and risk with a primary focus on online informal communication, and public alerts and warnings disseminated via short messaging channels. Much of her research investigates the evolving role of information and communication technology, including social media and mobile devices, for disaster preparedness, re
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The 2025 Business Owner Survey delivers key insights for cities, counties, and state agencies working to enhance online services. Top insights: 97% of business owners say digital access to government services is essential. Licensing and tax processes remain outdated, slowing efficiency and increasing administrative burdens. Younger entrepreneurs expect fully online, self-service options, signaling a need for modernization.
Policy Chats
MARCH 3, 2025
In this episode, Deb Aikat, University of North Carolina Professor of Journalism and Media, talks with the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about how technology impacts government processes and media communication. They discuss the media's crucial role during the pandemic and emphasize the importance of providing balanced news to support a healthy democracy.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 6, 2025
The world needs better residential solutions for the aging. Three innovations may hold the key to truly golden years.
A Library Writer's Blog
MARCH 4, 2025
The Libraries and Research Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes submissions to its two proposed panels at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, held in Toronto from Jan. 8-11, 2026. Collections as AI data? Should libraries provide collection data to generative AI companies? Should libraries restrict access to web scraping?
Super Library Marketing
MARCH 5, 2025
Watch this video now #LibraryMarketingShow, episode 279 Every time I upload one of these videos to YouTube, there are two major things that I am sure to do. Both of them helped me build my channel. One of them annoys some of my viewers! In this episode of The Library Marketing Show, I will explain why I will keep doing these things and why you should follow my lead.
Speaker: Noratek
Maintaining municipal operations is no small task, especially when budgets are tight and public expectations are high. In this webinar, we’ll explore how local governments can streamline their maintenance operations while ensuring safety, compliance, and efficiency. What You’ll Gain: Proven strategies for effective inspection management Insight into leveraging digital tools Practical tips for addressing common maintenance challenges Examples of municipalities that have achieved success.
NLC (National League of Cities)
MARCH 6, 2025
Authored by Nick Lyell, Chief Impact Officer, CivStart As local governments continue to tackle complex challenges such as improving services, upgrading infrastructure and ensuring equitable community growth, the role of technology in driving progress has never been more important.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
MARCH 7, 2025
US consumers have become more active in their healthcare decisions and are seeking engagement from healthcare organizations. Addressing these trends can improve healthcare businesses results.
A Library Writer's Blog
MARCH 5, 2025
The Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee of BRASS is seeking articles for the next issue of its online publication Academic BRASS. Academic BRASS is a newsletter--not a journal--that publishes issue-based articles and information for the general and educational interest of BRASS members and academic business librarians. Topics of interest to the editors are those dealing with business librarianship, such as resources, liaison and outreach activities, strategies, and instruction.
The City Fix
MARCH 7, 2025
COP30 in Belm, Brazil, will be the most substantial and strategic mechanism for local and subnational governments to influence and impact national and global sustainability agendas in 2025. As we gear up for the mid-year Bonn Climate Conference, it is.
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PA TIMES Magazine is a publication of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), a not-for-profit corporation. This edition focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in public administration, including guest columns, insights for the field and interviews with city government DEI officers about their work at the local level.
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