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Online Legal Research Firm Expands Coverage to 45 States
Loislaw.com, an Internet provider of primary legal research, recently expanded its offering to include case law and statutes databases from five more states, now including a total of 45 states and Washington, D.C.
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Mitretek's Helping Hand
In addition to helping Maryland devise a statewide public safety strategy, Mitretek Systems, through the Center for Criminal Justice Technology, also is involved in other local, state and federal technology projects.
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Small Town Goes High Tech
As technology evolves and people's expectations change, state and local government information technology managers are faced with a widening gap between their budgets and the systems, equipment and services they want to buy.
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Congressional neglect of feds must end
While security assessment services are gaining prominence alongside software products as a standard part of an overall security purchase, at least one vendor is offering virtual assessment services so that agencies don't even have to buy the software.
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Phoenix Site Proves Popular
A Phoenix city leader showed off his city's World Wide Web site and gave tips on how others can create one like it at a seminar titled 'Building Technology Strategies' at last month's 1999 Congress of Cities.
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Hearings to address tech-worker shortage
A job training work force commission will hold several public hearings this month to examine ways to increase the number of skilled information technology workers in the United States.
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Alaska Plans Statewide Telecom Program
Alaska, which spends more than $26 million annually on telecommunications products and services, plans to replace a hodgepodge of contracts with a single statewide telecom program.
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aperless contracting Here we are in the second week of 2000, and as far as I can determine, the Defense Department still uses paper by the boxcar to execute contracts, despite promises by John Hamre, deputy secretary of Defense, that the entire process would be digital. (See story, Page 68) Now, I know that man had a serious Year 2000 preoccupation, but one still wonders when the Pentagon will even come close to meeting this goal.
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Online Headhunter Eases Job Search
An online job search site in Texas is giving the unemployed another way to look for work and making the job hunt a little easier.
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Lessons learned
The Year 2000 problem, which came and went with only minor disruptions, may be remembered more for its positive impact on information technology than its catastrophic threat.
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San Diego County Unveils Child Abduction Web Site
In an effort to fight child abductions, the San Diego County, Calif., district attorney's office has launched a World Wide Web site that includes photos and other information on missing children from the office's longest-running cases.
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Companies Unveil E-Mall
Loislaw.com, an Internet provider of primary legal research, recently expanded its offering to include case law and statutes databases from five more states, now including a total of 45 states and Washington, D.C.
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Rand: Tech Aid Helping to Fight Crime
Rand, the public-policy think tank, has issued a report suggesting that federal technology assistance for state and local crime fighters is paying off, although many opportunities exist for enhancing the relationship.
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Camera Trained on Kentucky Development
Lexington, Ky., residents have the opportunity to keep an eye on a highly awaited construction project without leaving their homes.
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Utah Bridges Budget, IT Planning
As technology evolves and people's expectations change, state and local government information technology managers are faced with a widening gap between their budgets and the systems, equipment and services they want to buy.
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Coming to a PC Near You: Florida Town Meetings
Florida held its first 'Cyber Town Meeting' last month, using the World Wide Web to broadcast presentations by Gov. Jeb Bush and other state officials about the impact of information technology on the state.
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Iowa City Steps Up Web Strategy
After several years of taking part in a regional World Wide Web initiative, Iowa City, Iowa, this week will debut its own Web site.
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Pentagon confident Russian nuclear plants will withstand Y2K
The Defense Department this week delivered thousands of fire extinguishers and dozens of fire trucks, computers, printers, fax machines and mobile radios to Russia, where they will be used to bolster the safety of that country's nuclear storage facilities during the Year 2000 date change.
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Critical procurement system running out of headroom
The Defense Department's program for fielding the $326 million Standard Procurement System may soon come to a screeching halt at various Navy and Marine Corps installations unless a solution can be found for the system's skyrocketing storage requirements.
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