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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Passing the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act would mean states and localities couldn't tax citizens for Internet usage.
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Understanding why governments struggle to implement new technology requires us to understand what these factors are and why they negatively impact technology adoption so specifically.
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A measure promoting domestic purchasing in the Garden State was modified to exempt most computing technology, but experts fear the legislation may still have a big impact on government IT budgets.
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Funds generated from the city's "The Art of Change” program was earmarked for homeless transportation.
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Cloud sales are expected to generate billions in revenue this year, but state and local governments are unsure whether they can (and how they would) tax them.
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The past decade has seen a resurgence of these boosterish bucks. But do they actually redirect spending to mom-and-pop shops instead of big box stores and online retailers?
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On July 1, the Financial Information System for California will begin its Wave 1 transition and cutover activities to combine 2,500 operations into a single financial management system.
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In part one of this three-part series, we look at why we can't always point to the private sector as the model for best practices in government.
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A study finds that more corrupt states spend more money on construction, highways and police protections and less on health, education and other public services.
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After losing hundreds of millions of dollars, the city is starting to clamp down on IT contractors to make sure taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely.
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The creation of the 3,200-square-foot Modeling and Simulation Center of Expertise means that the U.S. Coast Guard will be able to rely more heavily on in-house staff instead of costly private contractors.
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After the Silicon Valley city that Facebook calls home slashed its police services, Facebook put funding down for a new police officer.
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Connecticut law has long required the government to give access to documents when asked, but technology now makes it possible to give the public documents before they even know they exist.
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The tiny plastic chips embedded in passports and credit cards are making consumers and travelers uneasy about the potential for someone with prying eyes trying to steal their personal data.
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While the political battle lines on same-sex marriage are stark, they couldn't be murkier for cryptocurrencies.
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U.S. Department of Energy officials were recently spotted in Austin looking to make new loans for technology that is too innovative to be backed totally by bankers.
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The idea was that fees paid to CGI for the monitoring would repay an advance the state made to start work on the software and related systems, but a recent audit shows the partnership fell flat.
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U.S. Rep. Jared Polis said his office worked for weeks on his Bitcoin website in anticipation of the FEC ruling to allow political contributions in the digital currency.
