Budget & Finance
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The state has made a new investment to secure better web access for rural and other underserved residents. The state earlier this year announced it had gained a big federal grant for such work. -
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.
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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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Federal law makes it hard for states to capitalize on one of their biggest assets: their highway systems. But that hasn’t stopped state officials from trying.
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It takes a lot of energy to run a successful cryptocurrency mining operation, but the costs aren’t stopping Texans in search of digital fortune and glory.
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Having consolidated their IT, the states of Georgia and Virginia are updating how services are outsourced and are moving away from larger, longer contracts to smaller more agile pacts.
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A $2.5 million workforce proposal from County Executive Armond Budish would focus on filling thousands of openings with skilled candidates.
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Baltimore has hired its inaugural chief of IT human capital and director of digital DevOps, and a chief data officer; and begun to execute on its digital transformation plan.
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In March, the counties of Dinwiddie and Amelia were awarded a $1.7 million grant from the Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission to fund a joint venture to expand broadband to unserved or underserved areas.
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Plus, civic technologists in Austin, Texas, host annual budget party; NYC Planning Labs celebrates its first anniversary; San Antonio concludes its first civic tech startup weekend; and the NYC CTO’s office releases a glossary of common civic tech terms.
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The Raleigh County Commission has approved the creation of an open checkbook portal to give residents a glimpse at how their tax dollars are being spent.
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Texas is committed to increasing adoption of shared technology services, said Hershel Becker, chief procurement officer at the Texas Department of Information Resources.
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When activated, the app immediately calls 911 and allows communication between law enforcement and first responders with those on the school premises.
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Spurred by society’s ever-increasing dependence on the cloud, demand for data centers is insatiable.
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The new facility will help the Aiken County Sheriff's Department better prepare for a variety of disasters and disruptions.
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After the Supreme Court overturned a 26-year-old ban on local and state taxes on Internet sales, officials are trying to put systems in place to draw from the new revenue stream.
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Four separate probes have been launched into the state’s embattled vehicle title and registrations system, MNLARS, as efforts to debug it run out of funding.
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The startup is running a series of pilot tests right now to try out a new way of setting up last-mile fiber connections.
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The Department of Public Safety has the city’s approval to purchase a new suite of new body cameras at a cost of nearly $71,000.
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Nearly one in five of the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board 's customers have challenged their bills since the introduction of the new billing system.
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The first of two buildings at the Georgia Cyber Center, believed to be the largest single investment in a state-owned cybersecurity facility, officially opened July 10.
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