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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

A High-Level View According to the 2022 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, the global cyber workforce has reached 4.7 A recent study by Tenable Research found that many organizations were falling victim to attacks that exploited well-known vulnerabilities, including some dating to 2017. million workers, but that still leaves 3.4

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Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since that year, police records show, transit officers have dramatically shifted away from enforcing fare evasion across the rail and bus system, with citations and arrests numbering less than 300 last year, compared with more than 15,000 in 2017. Of that 2021 total, none took place in the District.

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Tax incentive programs underfund schools

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Between 2017 and 2023, those schools lost $237.3 In Kansas City, for example, nearly $1,700 per student was redirected in 2022 from poorer public schools, while between $500 and $900 was taken from wealthier schools. The lack of funds is a result of tax breaks Kansas City lavishes on companies that do business there.

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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. More of that, please." He makes the point that the Council probably needs more staff to be able to do so. The auditor, former Councilmember Kathy Patterson, has done a lot of good reporting.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” But during his decade-plus as King County executive, lifelong West Seattleite Dow Constantine has been the local music and arts community’s biggest champion in local government.

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Climate Action: Backed by Budget

Barrett & Greene

To prevent a “climate catastrophe,” the focus of local, regional, national, and international government leaders has been to keep temperature rise in check – no more than 2.0°C The City took this discovery to heart and applied it to , the development of its 2022 budget. C increase above pre-industrial levels.

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Remote workers: When do they count for local economic development incentives?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

“Remote work is here to stay,” says a 2022 Forbes article. Research by McKinsey & Company released in June 2022 reveals that 58 percent of Americans reported having the opportunity to work from home “at least one day a week,” and 35 percent had the option to work from home “five days a week.”. Local Government Law 515 (4th ed.