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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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Rock Falls, Ill., is collaborating with Surf Air Wireless on the FiberNet broadband network that serves the city, and a measure under discussion by the city council would see the city sell a portion of the network.
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The county council unanimously approved the first step in purchasing body cameras and in-vehicle cameras for deputies of the Sheriff’s Office this week. The first five years of the program will cost roughly $9.2 million.
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State and local governments are incrementally working back toward the employment levels they saw before the pandemic, but one organization points out that many job losses have been permanent.
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Gov. Newsom is facing a financial setback in regards to his high-speed rail plan. The lack of revenue and rising costs will present a tough hurdle.
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Most Sullivan County, N.Y., residents and business owners could get to subscribe to a speedy, new countywide wireless Internet network by late 2023, if the county’s decision-makers have their way.
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The system meant to supply Californians with unemployment benefits has been rocked by a series of high-profile problems, including glitches and what appear to be widespread cases of fraud.
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The program – one of the many funding announcements in the final round of USDA’s Re-Connect Pilot Program investments – will benefit Iberville and St. Landry parishes. It is the program’s first venture in Louisiana.
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After a data glitch blocked test result records from the Reportable Disease Information Exchange, state officials have signed a new deal with Minnesota-based health consulting firm OptumInsight for a new system.
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Boundless Immigration co-founder Xiao Wang has voiced his frustration, discussing the tightened rules and processing delays for visas and citizenship that have hallmarked the Trump administration.
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With the groundwork for its online permitting portal already in place, when the Maryland Department of Commerce needed to quickly distribute funding for small businesses in the pandemic, IT stepped up to the plate.
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A $27 million broadband bill that relies on federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act money has been at the center of recent debate, with Republicans and Democrats divide over its progress.
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The exchanges had effectively been blocked in Hawaii since 2016 when the Division of Financial Institutions interpreted state law governing money transfer businesses as applying to virtual currency brokers.
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Armed with new funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, officials are discussing how to best extend public Internet service in the northwestern part of the city.
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In Northwest Indiana, a newspaper investigation has found that only nine agencies — including cities such as Michigan City, Hammond and Valparaiso — report the use of body cameras by police.
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As body cameras started to take off among American law enforcement agencies, Madison police have been somewhere between supportive and agnostic about the technology — often seeing cameras as an inevitability.
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The state of Delaware will build more broadband infrastructure, conduct a speed test survey across its communities and help prepare students and teachers for distance learning with millions of CARES Act funds.
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The $6.9 million in grants is part of $61 million in emergency grants funded through Tennessee’s Coronavirus Relief Fund. The funding will go toward “shovel-ready” projects in several areas.
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Springbrook Software, which provides technology for government payroll, budgeting and more, will start offering its cloud users access to Tableau early next year so they can use it to analyze and visualize their data.
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