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Report: Expect Cyber Investments, More Outsourced IT Under Trump
While cybersecurity investments and IT outsourcing may increase, expect agencies' agile efforts to wither.
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Remembering Veterans on Pearl Harbor Day
When we reflexively put veterans on a pedestal or declare them victims, we do them—and ourselves—a great disservice.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Discusses Immigration in Meeting With Trump
Emanuel delivered a letter signed by 15 other mayors, who are calling for the continuation of a program that shields young people from deportation.
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Alabama’s Judicial Override Law for Executions; Virginia’s Lackluster State Worker Salaries
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: Tacoma’s new rules for all-night massage parlors; increasing costs for Salt Lake City airport upgrades; and a N.C. county official reconsiders her resignation.
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Feds Press Albany Over ‘I Love N.Y.’ Highway Signs
The Empire State doubled down on the tourism campaign local officials find obnoxious and unsafe last summer, even with the Federal Highway Administration threatening $1.7 billion in funding.
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Analysis of U.S. Economic Stagnation Pins Blame on State and Local Regulations
In particular, health care, housing and education seen as contributors to citizens’ financial woes.
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GOP Eyes Plan to Eliminate Obama’s National Monuments; California’s Preemptive Move on Immigration
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: Restructuring Arkansas’ Medicaid; McCrory’s N.C. state government office building plan; and Denver plans a ‘base camp.’
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Cyber Commission Hopes to Brief Trump Before Christmas
Its report includes a laundry list of recommendations for the incoming administration.
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North Dakota Pipeline Protesters Get a Win in Easement Denial; New York Parole Process Marred by Racial Disparities
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: Oregon National Guard rented out lead-contaminated armories; mental health screening reduces Texas inmate suicides; Tennessee wildfire recovery could take decades.
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Mayor of Former Steel Mill Town Hopes Federal Aid Will Flow Under Trump
“If there’s ever an opportunity, it’s now,” says Mayor Lou Mavrakis of Monessen, Pennsylvania.
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A Gingrich Commission to Reorganize Government?
A modest proposal for a new role for the former House speaker.
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What Should Trump Seek in a Budget Director?
A good relationship with the president is key, former budget directors say.
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U.S. Chief Data Scientist: 'Time is Now' For Technologists to Jump into Public Service
The data already exists, DJ Patil said, to solve some important crises—if only we could piece together the pieces.
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An Ongoing Mystery in Minnesota: Who Jammed the State’s Health Insurance Hotline With Calls?
Investigators have forwarded findings from the Nov. 1 TDoS attack to a FBI task force.
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The Government's Landlord Needs to Explain How It Will Resolve Trump's Hotel Lease
Senate Democrats join House lawmakers in asking GSA to address conflicts of interest over Old Post Office lease.
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Toomey Bill Takes Aim at Federal Funding for Sanctuary Cities; Drug Tests for Illinois State Workers
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s hurricane recovery request; a Calexit vote in 2018?; ACLU vs. Maine police over social media monitoring.
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Jacksonville’s Frustrated Mayor: ‘We’ve Got to Get Out of the Pension Business!’
The mayor of Florida’s largest city continues to fume over fiscally troubled police and fire pensions and calls a possible $45 million miscalculation by an actuary “outrageous.”
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Why Trump Needs to Factor Rural Broadband Into His Infrastructure Plans
“Otherwise we’re dooming these areas to economic stagnation and worse,” U.S. Sen. Angus King said at a bipartisan Next Century Cities policy event on Wednesday.
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GSA's New Tech Leader Says Group is Ready for Its Pixar Moment
Former Pixar executive Rob Cook discusses what lured him to government work.
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