Category: State & Local

April 2, 2020

Take the worst weekly unemployment numbers the U.S. has ever seen. And then double it. More than 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the week ended March 28. That tops the previous all-time record of almost 3.3 million […]

March 31, 2020

New York City’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications this week launched a new website aimed at getting residents to contribute to the city’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic by self-reporting symptoms or encounters with people who may have […]

March 24, 2020

The news comes from a Wall Street Journal report that cites anonymous industry and federal officials. It states that government agencies are considering ordering a shutdown as cancelations increase due to the coronavirus. According to Flightstats, there have been almost […]

March 20, 2020

America is finally starting to test for the coronavirus in significant volumes. On Thursday, the total number of coronavirus tests conducted in America topped 100,000, according to the COVID tracking project. That’s a 10-fold increase from a week earlier. In […]

March 9, 2020

The coronavirus situation in the United States continues to escalate with the country’s case total well over 550 and over 30 states reporting cases as of Monday. There have been 22 deaths. Cases in the United States rose fivefold just […]

March 9, 2020

Arizona officials said Friday that J.R. Sloan, who was named the state’s interim chief information officer last August, will lead the state’s IT efforts on a permanent basis. Sloan had stepped into the CIO job following the resignation of Morgan […]

March 4, 2020

A bill that would enable Wyoming residents to display their IDs on their phones or tablets as a supplemental option to physical IDs passed the state Senate on Monday. The legislation, which will be reconciled with a House version approved […]

February 28, 2020

Major changes to the way people vote have election advocates on edge as Californians cast ballots in a high-profile primary that was moved up from June so the country’s most populous state could have a bigger say in picking the […]

February 25, 2020

Many state leaders say they want to create a government that uses technology to become more efficient and convenient for its residents, but in Connecticut, there are regulations impeding such development. Legislation introduced earlier this month by Gov. Ned Lamont […]

February 25, 2020

Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em, but be aware that doing so may cost you a lot more in New Jersey soon. Gov. Philip D. Murphy is expected to release a proposed budget Tuesday that will increase the state’s cigarette […]