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Canton, Ga., Goes for Virtual Gov System
Expecting a population spike, an Atlanta edge city beefs up its Web presence.
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California Hires San Diego DP Corp. for Y2K Work
Nonprofit computing center will provide state with consulting services.
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States Agree to Swap Crime Data Files
A number of state legislatures clear the way to share data in noncriminal screenings of school teachers, bus drivers and others.
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EDS joins health, local operations
Electronic Data Systems Corp. this week lumped together its state and local government operations with its health care programs, forming a new group dubbed State Business.
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U.S. DOJ Offers Police Polling Software to Cities
The U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics is offering cities new software for polling citizens on their attitudes toward policing..
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San Diego County Has New Outsourcing Honcho
San Diego County's chief administrative officer, Larry Prior, this week announced plans to leave government to become president of a local hightech firm. Moving into Prior's slot is former deputy CAO Walt Ekard, who will serve as sourceselection authority for the county's huge outsourcing endeavor.
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Kentucky Clears the Way for New Master Contracts
Unisys Corp. today announced a strategic alliances services contract award from the commonwealth of Kentucky a first step in the state's effort to frame a set of state contracts with IT vendors.
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Federal Government May Be a Culprit in Urban Sprawl Crisis
The General Accounting Office recently issued an assessment of the impact federal regulations may have on America's sprawling urban and suburban development. Specifically, GAO was looking to quantify the effect taxation, environmental regulation, federal highway expansion funding and other programs have on urban sprawl.
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BSA's New Anti-Piracy Campaign
Concerned that students do not exercise ethical judgment when it comes to technology, the Business Software Alliance, teachers and elected officials yesterday launched a campaign to drive home the importance of ethical software use.
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Civic-Minded Technology
Bigger is better in Texas, and Lone Star State residents 'don't look kindly' on suggestions that they curb their appetite for real estate, Austin's senior planner, George Adams, admitted. When civic planning officials like Adams go before a roomful of angry motorists who stand to lose a leftturn l
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Tackling Wildlife Licensing in North Carolina
It was an oftrepeated scene: A North Carolina wildlife department officer would ask for someone's fishing or hunting license, and the answer would be, 'Well, I have one, but I just forgot to bring it with me. Can't you check in Raleigh?' At that point, the officer would be forced to issue a citati
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'Melissa's' Message: Practice Protection
Municipal governments across the country probably winced when Portland, Ore.'s computers and countless other networks across the nation were jammed by the 'Melissa' virus last month. It was a network nightmare that drives home the importance of updating your antivirus software. Civic networks cert
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Curbing Urban Sprawl
Many of the nation's cities are enjoying the fruits of the best economy in decades, with the indicators of civic healthtax receipts, economic investment levels and employment ratesall pointing up. Yet the good times have brought some negatives: an insatiable appetite on the part of consumers and
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Philly Outsources Desktop Maintenance
When Philadelphia's chief information officer, Brian Anderson, came on board last year, one of his first goals was to breathe life into a stalled effort to centralize the upkeep of desktop computersa plan the city claims could save $800,000 annually. Under Anderson's direction, the city has becom
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A Fair Shake in the Digital Economy
The electronic marketplace is changing the way America shops. Today, a consumer or business can make a purchase with a keystroke. This innovation is exciting, dramatic and powerful, and it already has reshaped America and its economy. But electronic commerce also has implications for our traditiona
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News Shorts
The MultiState EMall, the prototype multiplestate electronic procurement platform, has been open for business at emall.isa.us since October, but officials have recorded only about 20 transactions from government buyers. 'Our plan is to ramp up purchasing volume, and ramp it up and ramp it up aga
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Eyeing Net Security
State and local government agencies may face a different kind of time bomb once the century date turns over. While they have been dealing with the Year 2000 crisis, many localities have not been able to keep pace with their network security needs, state and local officials said. The bad news is tha
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Small enhancements give IE5 a big boost
With the release of Internet Explorer 5.0, Microsoft Corp. has not added any major features to its World Wide Web browser, but the company has made dozens of lesser enhancements that add up to a smoother ride on the Web for end users and fewer headaches for systems administrators. Among the most we
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Toddling Toward the Wired Schoolhouse
When Alice disappears down the rabbit hole, she finds a mushroom that can instantly make her grow bigger. In elementary education, there's a similar wish that dropping a networked PC into a classroom will produce equally rapid growth. But as any schoolchild can tell you, Alice in Wonderland is fict
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