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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Includes Web-based automated systems, increased server and mainframe capacity, rehiring retired employees.
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"It is incumbent on us to continue to offer our visitors and residents the best tools available to stimulate travel to New York City and within the five boroughs."
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Would provide payment incentives to encourage the widespread adoption of Health Information Technology and establish standards for interoperability and privacy.
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"Americans' electronic health records could be shared -- without their consent -- with over 600,000 covered entities through the forthcoming nationally linked electronic health-records network."
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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Comcast's network management amounted to "looking inside its subscribers' communications, blocking that communication when it uses a particular application regardless of whether there is congestion on the network, hiding what it is doing by making consumers think the problem is their own, and lying about it to the public."
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California Gov. Schwarzenegger says a proposed IT consolidation and a centralized CIO office would save the state billions of dollars.
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Among 168 legislative bills sent to the Hawaii state Legislature.
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"In these tough economic times, it's more important than ever to keep making Colorado a business-friendly state."
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Colorado CIO Mike Locatis urges new funding approach.
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Federal help possible as states struggle to fix budgets.
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Different programs have differing definitions of allowable uncompensated care, and many of those are outside the control of state policymakers.
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The California Office of the State Chief Information Officer publishes list of 122 projects included in IT Capital Plan.
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The current bill does not demand that states create public Web sites to show their own citizens how they are spending the money, despite the fact that state governments will be responsible for dispensing over half the funds.
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There are several funding sources available, but they have to know what they want and be prepared to roll it out quickly.
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EMSystems, PIER Systems each had a role in minimizing death toll.
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Since the inception of GoSolarSF in July of 2008, monthly solar applications have spiked in San Francisco by over 300 percent.
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"It is time Michigan had a Web site that lets taxpayers see where their hard earned money is being spent."
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With 11.7 million Web visits in 2008, Michigan's tourism Web site tallied 30 percent more visits than in 2007.
