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School district maintenance teams across North Texas have been working all summer updating air conditioning units, installing spot coolers and adding bipolar ionization to classrooms for more circulation of clean air.

Getting resources to immigrant communities can present challenges — like language barriers, limited internet access and transportation and mistrust — but Harris County and the city of Houston managed to pull it off.

Pittsburgh universities and companies are closely watching legislation that will direct tens of billions of dollars to semiconductor manufacturers, and will open new funding streams for tech research and development.

Lorain, Ohio, will roll out software it hopes will help it and residents fight the never-ending war against problems like potholes, long grass and the neighbor who wants to store a rusting old vehicle in their backyard.

Tests have not shown elevated levels since April. This sustained increase in viral load demonstrates that there may be community increased COVID-19 transmission.

On Tuesday, King County released its first-ever Wildfire Risk Reduction Strategy, a 12-point plan to bolster the region’s ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from large burns.

Answer: Not sure, but now you can if you want to.

A newly released report by the county’s Election Security Review Committee called the security around election equipment “inadequate” and also called out the “serious problem” of threats against election workers.

The purchase of 137 new buses over the next two years will include at least 15 electric models to be used with the agency's proposed Bus Rapid Transit system to improve service between Oakland and Downtown Pittsburgh.

The private California college will offer digital games, puzzles and lessons tailored to a student's personal assessment and field of study, aiming to boost student engagement with more immersive and enjoyable content.

The UbiHub tool already is helping cities with traffic and curb management, and can be used for a variety of other tasks. The company is making a play to reduce costs and hassles for smart city projects.

Last week the California Fair Political Practices Commission passed a resolution allowing cryptocurrencies to be used as donations for political campaigns. The move reverses its earlier decision to ban digital currencies.

Across the globe, heat-trapping gases released by human activity are causing temperatures to rise and contributing to droughts, wildfires and extreme rainfall at a rate faster than scientists had predicted.

During a visit this week to APS Academy in Illinois, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm stressed the need for STEAM education to keep the country moving toward a clean-energy future.

See my July IAEM Bulletin Disaster Zone column.

It starts with your own internal staff.

The new website includes data from multiple agencies to help public officials plan for and mitigate extreme heat events. The portal includes GIS mapping, real-time temperatures, forecasts and other data tools.

Mike Steckel is director of user experience at Mighty Citizen a branding and digital transformation agency for governments.

Snyder, who was Michigan’s governor for eight years, brought on his former state CIO to start a cybersecurity company focused on small and medium-sized organizations. Its offerings include a “personalized concierge.”

Major changes have been made!

Given plummeting test scores and worsening student behavior issues that followed months of online learning, some people are skeptical that increasingly popular remote-learning options are a wise strategy for the future.

The university will develop a clean energy microgrid with solar arrays, thermal storage and advanced heat-exchange systems to power a community emergency shelter and mitigate the impact of power outages.