Governors fighting “fiscal child abuse”….Trouble brewin’ on the bayou…A watchdog named Chick…Iowa goes over the Rainbow…Michigan’s Hurricane Katrina…NY’s $2 billion Humpty Dumpty… Armageddon strikes Atlanta….World War 3 will start in Minnesota…L.A.’s crime map mess up…
After whittling away the weekend hours, we at CivSource have poured over the Office of Management and Budget’s new round of guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. While the new document chimes in at 121 pages, complete with nine appendices, it’s far from complete. New guidance will be forthcoming within [...]
A recent InformationWeek blog asked the question: Why aren’t more state and local governments leveraging social media in their communities? Here’s a look at a few that are trying.
CivSource Morning News Update 04.03.09 Doing the state of Virginia a solid…Who’s Broadband is it anyway?…Indian-Giving out in Wisconsin….Can you hear me know, asks Maryland First Responders….Recovery.gov is a disaster, says Senators…
When the Obama Administration started working on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, (ARRA) they knew transparency and open government had to be one of the bill’s hallmarks. The administration also knew that a significant amount of that transparency was going to be left up to state and local officials. According to the latest figures [...]
Today’s State and Local News Update is a special one – it’s the inaugural. To give you a brief understanding of how this will work, every day circa 8:30 A.M eastern, CivSource will provide the six to ten most important state and local stories from around the country. Hyperlinks to the actual stories will be [...]
