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During a recent Brookings Institute event, a former FCC chair and a former chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau said that features that make 5G compelling also create different kinds of cybersecurity risks to address.

The Golden State plans to invest more than $5.5 billion in state funding toward electric vehicle charging infrastructure and incentive programs. This is in addition to some $384 million in federal funding.

Answer: 10 million.

A 65-page audit found problems with transparency, accountability and student outcomes in Oregon's community colleges, recommending that the state give the Higher Education Coordinating Commission a clear mandate to make changes.

The first real warnings that the climate was changing more rapidly than normal were sounded in the 1950s. Scientists then cautioned that warming would lead to changes in the atmosphere as well as an expanding ocean.

Following a memo from Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey last week banning use of TikTok on state networks and devices, the university has made the app inaccessible on campus housing networks and warned employees not to install it.

Lawmakers, business leaders and K-12 students gathered at the Michigan State Capitol to see student teams show off inventions involving technologies such as robotics, coding, web design, podcasting and 3-D printing.

From food insecurity to school violence to early-onset mental health conditions, K-12 students face many challenges inside and outside the classroom that can hinder their academic success. Schools increasingly provide services to help children with these challenges, and government leaders have started funding these services through legislation.

Fried brings experience as the chief technology and innovation officer for Baltimore city’s public library system and, previously, as CIO of the city’s Health Department. The appointment was announced last week.

Happy holidays! With the year rapidly winding down, let’s revisit some Special Districts Program highlights from 2022.

Consistency is something children and employees need.

In Georgia, where the cryptocurrency industry is growing, some insiders acknowledge tighter controls are coming after what happened with FTX — but they hope regulation won’t stifle the industry.

More Dayton-area cities have installed new automated license plate reading devices in the past several months and at least one other local police department said it wants to add them next year.

With a large amount of funding on the way, the Public Service Commission is urging Wisconsin’s residents and businesses to badger the FCC by verifying the accuracy and submitting challenges.

Laura Negrón serves as New York City’s chief privacy officer and general counsel to the Mayor’s Office of Operations. Prior to leading the legal and privacy team at Operations, Negrón served as Executive agency counsel for HHS Connect, a program that provides IT tools and solutions to help Health and Human Services agencies coordinate interagency case management. Previously, she was director of the Guardianship Project, a demonstration program at the Vera Institute of Justice that appoints legal, social, and other support services to individuals with disabilities and elderly people in New York City. She has also served as a deputy county attorney at the Legal Counsel and Affirmative Litigation Bureaus of the Nassau County Attorney’s Office, and as dean of Institutional Advancement for Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

Jeff Epstein is Comm100’s VP Product Marketing and Communications. He’s a B2B marketer with 20+ years’ experience creating compelling messaging and content for sales enablement and demand generation. Jeff has held roles in sales, product marketing, business development and partner marketing with companies including IBM, General Motors, Sophos, QuickMobile, Allocadia, and Comm100. He holds a BA from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management.

This past year will be remembered as another year of ransomware attacks, data breaches impacting critical infrastructure and, most of all, global cybersecurity impacts from the Russian war with Ukraine.

You can only keep them down on the farm for so long.

Overall, several central Pennsylvania hospitals said they’re not as stressed as they were a year ago. Still, they noted ongoing staffing shortages and also stressed the urgent care centers and emergency rooms are very busy.

On the heels of a week-long civil trial surrounding the data collection practices of the Maine State Police, officials will seek an outside review into whether its intelligence unit is violating federal privacy laws.

The U.S. government regulates many industries, but social media companies don’t neatly fit existing regulatory templates. Systems that deliver energy may be the closest analog.

The university library has adopted a platform for Android and iOS users to grant faculty, students and staff access to hundreds of thousands of e-books as the popularity of digital learning grows.

Answer: Yes.

The number of electric buses on America's roads — as well as the number of transit agencies using them — rose last year, according to new federal data. Here’s a tool to see whether your transit agency has any.