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Longtime state senator announces plans to retire
March 19, 2024 | News, ManagementIn an interview from earlier this year, Washington’s Karen Keiser discussed her nearly 30-year career and how to affect change in state legislatures.
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Records shed light on program pairing cops with mental health professionals
| News, ManagementNew Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced that he plans to double the budget for the community-based program that dispatches a mental health counselor with a plainclothes police officer during certain mental or behavioral health calls.
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Free school meals for all may reduce childhood obesity
| News, ManagementCOMMENTARY | Growing research is showing the benefits of universal free school meals for the health and well-being of children, including a slowing in the rise of childhood obesity rates.
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Local news is crucial to governance, and it’s hurting
March 18, 2024 | News, ManagementCOMMENTARY | Public officials need to support it any way they can. It’s good for their communities, and it's good for them.
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How to prevent ideas from getting lost in translation
| News, ManagementPolicy researchers and government administrators often seem like they’re speaking different languages. A new book aims to help experts communicate more clearly, so their ideas can have real-world impacts.
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‘Tough-on-crime’ policies are back in some places that had reimagined criminal justice
| News, ManagementSeveral states are considering or have already enacted legislation undoing more progressive policies.
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Sunshine Week brings attention to state efforts to overhaul open records laws
March 15, 2024 | News, ManagementAs technology renders decades-old open records policies obsolete, states look to overhaul them. It is pitting government officials against good-government groups and reporters.
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988 currently doesn’t use geolocation services. Counties want to change that.
| News, ManagementCounties are pushing for Congress to pass legislation that will require calls be routed based on location. Wireless carriers are already working with the federal government to start doing that.
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Community groups step up to help rural agencies’ disaster recovery
March 14, 2024 | News, ManagementOrganizations like long-term recovery groups can help rural agencies get housing, financial, health care and food assistance to victims of natural disasters.
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There are 100,000 fewer Election Day polling places in 2024
| News, ManagementA major Supreme Court decision, a pandemic and localized issues have all conspired to reduce the number of physical voting locations. Advocates say that’s bad for democracy.