Budget & Finance
-
Amid an overall growth projection for the market of more than $160 billion, government IT leaders at the Beyond the Beltway conference confront a tough budget picture, with some seeing AI as part of the solution. -
Paper-based procurement has long been the way governments operate, and it does help ensure security and compliance. But it also brings a cost, which digital solutions and AI tools can improve.
-
Since making the change in the spring of 2025, officials have consolidated licenses and are pushing Internet to all city sites. Both initiatives combined have saved several hundreds of thousands of dollars.
More Stories
-
A tax advisory council has recommended adoption of a $32 million tax on Internet sales and the imposition of a $30 million sales tax on digital products including cloud-based applications, video games and more.
-
A Kentucky development district will be the pilot for a state and federal project, where regional agencies identify vulnerabilities to critical infrastructure such as water utilities, power companies and transportation.
-
Historically black colleges and universities are closely linked to their surrounding areas, including rural places on the other side of the digital divide. The Minority Broadband Initiative wants to take advantage of these connections.
-
The $1,125,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation will help Bloomington, Ind., Transit upgrade its fare payment system with the goal of making it easier and more convenient for riders.
-
The Monongalia County Commission approved a bid totaling nearly $400,000 from the Maryland-based company Mavenspire Inc. on Wednesday that will streamline the county’s information technology setup.
-
The Heflin, Ala., City Council voted unanimously to buy new computers for the police department during a recent meeting, with the current computers soon to be obsolete once Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 7.
-
The Livingston, N.J., school district’s payroll system was still not fully functional after a ransomware attack, which forced a delayed opening of schools earlier this week, officials said Tuesday.
-
The Heflin, Ala., City Council voted unanimously to buy new computers for the police department during a recent meeting, with the current computers soon to be obsolete once Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 7.
-
Winnebago County, Ill., sheriff's deputies could be equipped with body cameras and new Tasers soon if the Winnebago County Board votes to approve a $2.4 million contract in the days to come.
-
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has reached a settlement with Sprint and T-Mobile over the companies’ merger, making the state the latest to drop out of a coalition of states in an anti-trust suit.
-
CentraCare Health has been awarded a grant of $234,648 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve its telehealth services by installing video equipment within 10 clinics throughout nine counties.
-
Some West Michigan residents — while pleased a new industry has breathed life into a once-vacant building — say the center has yet to live up to the high hopes it was greeted with when it announced it was coming.
-
Funding from Indiana's Next Level Broadband program will support a Mainstream Fiber Networks LLC project to provide broadband to about 2,084 unserved households and 389 unserved businesses in Floyd County.
-
Guilford County Commissioners Voted this week to spend about $2 million for new voting machines that use hand-marked ballots instead of the current supply of touchscreen, digital terminals.
-
Launched in 2016, the Power Your Drive pilot program has installed more than 3,000 charging stations at 255 locations at apartments, condominiums and workplaces across the utility's service territory.
-
Minnesota received $47 million in the national Volkswagen court settlement, and officials are floating a plan to spend half that money to reduce air pollution and edge the state toward “a cleaner transportation future.”
-
While St. Paul’s police chief recently sought state funding to implement gunshot-location technology, Mayor Melvin Carter told him he hasn’t found conclusive evidence that it’s an effective way to reduce gun violence.
-
Launched in 2016, the Power Your Drive pilot program has installed more than 3,000 charging stations at 255 locations at apartments, condominiums and workplaces across the utility's service territory.
Most Read
