The week of January 10, 2011 saw some corporate actions including a partnership, a consolidation and reorganization, a public sector division pat-on-the back and a few contract wins in Louisiana and Ohio. Meanwhile, a deal in Maine adds some red to one company’s ledger and Ann Arbor, Michigan gets paid for helping a neighbor with [...]
New York’s Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) is a big operation. OPWDD has 22,000 state employees, 800 not-for-profit partners and an annual budget of just over $8 billion. The Office is responsible for helping developmentally disabled New Yorkers receive care and services that will allow them to live richer lives. This means helping [...]
According to an announcement by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), Facebook has agreed to modify its terms of service so state and local governments can more easily utilize the popular social networking site.
In 2007, Iowa Governor Chet Culver and the state’s General Assembly created the Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council (ICCAC). The group of academic and public sector leaders was charged with forecasting Iowa’s greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, identifying ways to reduce GHGs by 50 percent and 90 percent by 2050. Legislation passed in early 2009 codified [...]
According to South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds, the state’s open records and open ledger website continues to grow and draw interested citizens. OPEN SD has had nearly 300,000 visitors in the past 12 months, officials said. “South Dakota citizens care about how their tax dollars are spent, and they can find the answers in great [...]
In a letter to House Speaker-elect John Boehner, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer highlighted an area of concern for her and other governors when implementing provisions of the new federal health care law. The suggestion offered by Mrs. Brewer to incoming House leadership would allow states to make cuts to their Medicaid rolls without losing federal [...]
According to Rick Webb, former state chief information officer for the state of North Carolina, the fiscal crises besetting state and local governments presents the perfect opportunity for state CIOs to showcase the power of technology to deal with a “perfect storm” of declining budgets and increasing demand for services. “CIOs are feeling enormous pressure [...]
In an announcement last week, Oracle said they had signed a deal with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP), to replace its legacy customer information system. The deal comes just days prior to another company announcement, that will make Oracle business intelligence and analytics products more widely available for the utilities sector.
It may seem a trivial thing, but a battle for “bed taxes” that has been brewing between state and local tax collectors and the online travel industry for the better part of a decade shows no signs of slowing. Recent actions in Montana, Oklahoma, New York, California, Maryland and elsewhere join four or five dozen [...]
In what is surely to become a trend, the state of Washington became the second in as many weeks to announce consolidation and realignment plans within its administrative branch. According to Gov. Gregoire’s proposal, she intends to reduce the number of state agencies from 21 to 9 to save $30 million over the next biennium. [...]
