Ed Week Hangover? Take the Deltek Hair of the Dog Cure with State Ed Budget & IT Analysis

Deltek Sr. Analyst Chris Cotner and Principal Analyst Jason Sajko report. With the recent recession and tepid recovery, the news for most state governments has not been good. Several states (e.g., California, New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Minnesota) have experienced wide-ranging and well-publicized problems including budget deficits, significant budget cuts, stateRead… Read more »

Whatever happened to downtown people movers?

Once seen as full of promise, the downtown people mover has virtually faded away from the U.S. transit scene, with only three systems in operation. Original post

Weekly Round-up – December 09, 2011

Gadi Ben-Yehuda You Can Take It with You. Two articles on Mobile Web this week: first, from Aaron Smith of Pew Internet Research, “Americans and Mobile Computing: Key Trends in Consumer Research” and Max Cacas writing in Signal interviews Gwynne Kostin about government use of the moblie Web. Take-away quote: “One of the biggest challengesRead… Read more »

DOD confirms US Army Civilian Force Reduction – MetroDCites affected

The 2012 Presidential Budget requires the US Army to reduce civilian employees to comply with funding decrease demands. The Department of Army announced today it is moving forward with plans to reduce the size of its civilian employee workforce. The intended 8,700 civilian employee reduction will be completed by 30 September 2012. According to theRead… Read more »

App turns riding London Underground into a game

Each time a London Tube rider swipes an Oyster card, an app called Chromaroma adds that information to a map of travelers throughout the city. Original post

HopStop charts urban travel trends

HopStop has released an infographic showing travel patterns in 65 metropolitan areas based on data from more than 400 million route requests. Original post

Open Data Day 2011 – Recaps from Around the World

This last Saturday was International Open Data Day with hackathons taking place in cities around the world. How many you ask? We can’t know for certain, but organizers around the world posted events to the wiki in over 50 cities around the world. Given the number of tweets with the #odhd hashtag, and the locationsRead… Read more »

Two worlds, not quite yet colliding

I went to two events yesterday. The first was the launch of the Government Digital Service, or rather a housewarming party for their shiny new offices. In fine agile tradition, they put on a slick show and tell with short sharp presentations about their work and achievements topped and tailed by Francis Maude, Mike BrackenRead… Read more »

RIP Virginia Tech Police Officer, Deriek W. Crouse

Everyday, we have our military, law enforcement officials, and government workers (at all levels of government… federal, state, and local) put themselves out there in danger when they are in the line of duty. Today was no different. Deriek W. Crouse, a Virginia Tech campus police officer, was shot and killed during a routine trafficRead… Read more »

Is This How Government Should Work?

Elected officials across New York State are taking credit for voting to “reform” the tax code by lowering taxes as the Buffalo News described by a “measly” four-tenths of one percent, for those making $40,000 to $150,000. The New York Times points out that the biggest cuts in this so called reform goes to thoseRead… Read more »

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