Budget & Finance
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Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who took office in January, wants more public safety tools to protect stops and stations, and a better user experience. She has ordered officials to come up with a plan. -
The launch of GrantWell, which offers free support to municipal governments, aims to expand their access to federal and state funding. A recent listening tour highlighted local needs.
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Negotiations have stalled over a state Senate proposal to repeal a sales tax exemption on data center equipment. Gov. Abigail Spanberger raised the possibility of a data center electricity consumption tax.
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The multi-billion dollar figure comprises a variety of government incentives, including grants, tax breaks, factory construction, discounted loans and environmental credits.
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As the economy shifts from one that relies on goods to one that relies on services, states are finding it hard to capture revenue from constantly evolving technologies like cloud computing.
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To shame tax scofflaws into paying up, some states are publishing their names and the amounts they owe on public websites.
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The company is putting $20 million in Google.org grants behind nonprofits that use emerging technologies to increase independence for people living with disabilities.
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The sector now ranks third for venture fundraising, up from as low as 11th place during the dot-com boom.
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The IRS said whoever was behind the scheme tried to breach the online system called Get Transcript — where taxpayers can get filings from previous years — 200,000 times.
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Contracting concerns have focused largely on the Health and Human Services Commission following revelations regarding several questionable contracts.
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Contracts from the Department of Administrative Services are currently being investigated by Iowa's Department of Public Safety.
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Strategic sourcing is a way to do procurement with proven benefits, and it's catching on at all levels of government. But some myths need to be dispelled.
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A Texas lawmaker is pushing to make all financial disclosure statements filed with the state's Ethics Commission available online so the public can easily find them.
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In a proposal before the House, the Legislature would take $22 million of the $23 million left in the tech fund for court operations -- which would mean the end of a website that gets 500,000 hits per day.
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Government agencies are supporting their IT and capital investment planning with a tool called Decision Lens.
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In an effort to make rentals more sustainable, city officials in 14 college towns banded together to create a website that shows renters what they would pay in utilities.
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Members of the House sponsored a new bill that would legalize and regulate online gaming, generating new revenues and protecting gamblers from predatory sites.
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The city plans to pay for the upgrades in the future and work with Gov. Larry Hogan on funding.
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The "FAST" project was supposed to automate the division's project and financial reporting requirements, improve cash flow by filing for federal highway funding on a weekly basis, and reduce the likelihood of data errors.
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Lawmakers now are considering giving more training to workers and creating a central contracts database.
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Trying to create a "new direction in the energy sector," a computer scientist in Austin is using crowdfunding to help low-income Texans pay their electricity bills.
