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A New, Powerful Data Tool For Cities – The Peer City Identification Tool

The tool is a powerful online tool that allows policymakers, planners and researchers to truly identify cities facing similar challenges, and in the process find the ones that may have developed appropriate policy responses.

Planning the Data-Driven City

How do cities effectively collect, publish, and use data?

Commentary: How Not to Make America Great Again

A full community response is needed and all of us must get off the sidelines and on to the playing field.

What a Gutted EPA Would Cost Our Communities

Cities, towns and counties depend on the federal agency in numerous ways. Drastic budget cuts would create a lot of pain for them.

Daines, Tester Introduce Timber Innovation Act

Legislation would promote research and development of tall wood buildings

SeamlessDocs Project Offers Free Web Analytics Dashboard to State, Local Government

SeamlessDocs is now putting up Web analytics dashboards for state and local governments — for free, and with about two minutes of work involved.

That’s not an exaggeration.

Zinke: Interior Department in the ‘energy business’

Jeremy Nichols with WildEarth Guardians — one of the environmental groups that fought the Greens Hollow lease — called Zinke’s decision a "travesty."

The Blow-It-All-Up Billionaires

They had lost all faith in the ruling class–the government, the media, Wall Street. "It showed the entire blow-up of the country coming," Caddell told me. "A whole new paradigm developing."

Utah Finds Unexpected Benefits from Statewide Road Data Project

Lidar uses 40 sensors strapped to a vehicle to collect 2,000 points of data per second, creating a visual representation of the streets.

Is a Universal Basic Income a Good Idea?

In the U.S., some Silicon Valley titans are championing the idea.

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The MDT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program encourages and supports the participation of companies owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals in transportation contracts.

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