Stories Collection

  1. Many in the GIS industry are touting airborne GPS as a feasible and cost-effective al...
  2. Police officers on patrol in Amesbury, Mass., are looking for more than speeding moto...
  3. It is the place where scientists worked to put a man on the moon and where rocket and...
  4. In most cases, commercial and industrial real estate development spurs new highway co...
  5. Garland, Texas, is one of the first cities in the nation to reap the rewards of the T...
  6. Philadelphia was foundering in an ocean of red ink when Ed Rendell decided he had the...
  7. Nineteen city and county projects breaking new ground in energy research and technolo...
  8. The environmental condition of a property is of concern for cities, counties and the ...
  9. Despite the outcry from local government organizations about the potential effects of...
  10. The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) issued a provocative proposal in M...
  11. In the information-rich, budget-tight era facing California's economic development co...
  12. The Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) of Virginia has granted conceptual approv...
  13. Toledo, Ohio, a city of 300,000, prides itself on the beauty of its parks and tree-li...
  14. Old timers remember the days when a stadium was a place to watch a ball game -- perio...
  15. More than 2 million square feet of space in the heart of San Diego -- including hotel...
  16. The Hemet (Calif.) City Council recently set out to reduce the cost of development wi...
  17. In upcoming years, the majority of bridges across the country needing rehabilitation ...
  18. The concept of integrated pest management (IPM) is not as esoteric as its name may su...
  19. Presidential campaigns used to be easy, at least in the 20th century. The Soviet Unio...
  20. It is estimated that transplant failures of trees and other plantings in grounds and ...
  21. It was a radical idea, using a professional sports stadium to spur downtown redevelop...
  22. Large-scale roadside management programs can slip into a shotgun approach with predic...
  23. The Homosassa River in Homosassa, Fla., is home to thousands of fish, manatees and ot...
  24. A new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spending program presents a "good news, ba...
  25. The South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper) is the fourth largest pub...
  26. Technology already widely used by American motorists is the basis for a low-cost safe...
  27. Since the mid '70s, there has been a progressive decline in the public's support for ...
  28. The American Water Work Association's Research Foundation (AWWARF) has selected five ...
  29. It is a theme heard over and over again from environmentalists and concerned citizens...
  30. Recovering old corrugated containers (OCC) for recycling is one of the most effective...
  31. In 1995, the Riverside County, Calif., board of Supervisors adopted a policy to requi...
  32. Demonstration tests have confirmed the compatibility of technologies used in the nati...
  33. In February 1996, Clifton, N.J., expanded its source reduction/pollution prevention p...
  34. Despite rapid growth and an increasingly important role in local service delivery thr...
  35. One of the nation's leading-edge efforts to better protect children and adults at ris...
  36. Adams County is a rural county in south-central Pennsylvania, known for its historic ...
  37. Cleveland, recently hailed as the "comeback city" of the Mid-west, has wielded a uniq...
  38. Construction is proceeding at a fast pace toward completion of the nation's most adva...
  39. As pollution from traditional point sources is reduced, it is clear that much of the ...
  40. Dealing with the challenges of running a county is a full-time job. And many counties...
  41. Looking for innovations on the current landfill scene is a bit like chasing the facts...
  42. Nettie Draughon, city manager of Plant City, Fla., has been a forward-looking municip...
  43. In 1992, property owners in a 42-block area of Louisville's central business district...
  44. Like many cities, Chattanooga, Tenn., has experienced rapid growth without a sufficie...
  45. Washington, D.C. - Careful budgeting, a generally favorable economic climate and a gr...
  46. The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District recently completed a water-quality study t...
  47. Englewood, Colo. - The insurance industry has lost another attempt to apply the "sudd...
  48. McPherson County, Kan., had a 50-ton-per-hour (TPH) asphalt plant in operation for lo...
  49. Performance contracting, by which lighting and/or HVAC system upgrades are paid for f...
  50. Police officers respond to more than 13.7 million alarms per year, roughly 98 percent...
  51. Siting an elevated water storage facility in the megalopolis that stretches from Wash...
  52. In 1994, the Royal Courtesy Mounted Patrol helped manage a crowd of more than 300,000...
  53. Richard Cromwell, general manager of SunLine Transit Agency in Southern California's ...
  54. On a sultry summer night, police detectives begin investigating the murder of a 30-ye...
  55. As the largest project of its kind in the country, the public/private partnership run...
  56. Texas state legislators anticipate saving lives through a new law that automatically ...
  57. A pilot plant designed to be a miniature replica of a 60-mgd water plant is up and ru...
  58. Merriam, Kan., is moving toward completion of a major commercial redevelopment of a s...
  59. In Waverly, Fla., on the steps of a local church, a 23-year-old is selling crack coca...
  60. Golf was first played in America in 1888 in Yonkers, N.Y., on a six-hole track built ...
  61. Erosion control blankets and mattings are recognized for their capabilities in reduci...
  62. Transportation planners around the country are finding it easier to navigate in cyber...
  63. Municipal governments and financial industry professionals now have a single source o...
  64. With asphalt modifiers providing stability, noise-suppressing open-graded mixes get t...
  65. The folk tale about the hungry visitor who convinced townspeople that he could make s...
  66. After a landslide destroyed several homes and closed a vital highway, the seaside tow...
  67. As one of the state's largest land developers, the Ohio Department of Transportation ...
  68. New reports are folding the technical aspects of public works into the management asp...
  69. Coon Creek Dam, located upstream of Lennox, Tenn., about 75 miles northeast of Memphi...
  70. When people look at a bridge, they usually see a plain structure with little aestheti...
  71. Rodney Dangerfield must have worked for a public works department. His lament about n...
  72. One of the greatest challenges the Ohio Department of Transportation faces today is h...
  73. In 1991, Bridgeport, the largest city in Connecticut, was reeling from the notoriety ...
  74. Eddy Tanaka needed a job in 1958. The Walnut Grove, Calif., native had a college degr...
  75. Casinos and riverboats can put a charge in local economies. But their reputation as a...
  76. The buses were just beginning to roll into Atlanta for the 1996 Olympic Games when th...
  77. On March 27, 1996, in Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida, the U. S. Supreme Court c...
  78. City managers and town councils often try to find various ways to heed the requests o...
  79. Cincinnati's Department of Economic Development (DED) is going high-tech in its effor...
  80. A little over a year ago, Los Angeles began developing its specifications for a new f...
  81. New Orleans, a city known by tourists for its historic charm and festival atmasphere,...
  82. When more than three million tourists visit Colonial Williamsburg, Va., every year, t...
  83. In 1990 and 1991, the city of Philadelphia's fiscal crisis had reached a crescendo, l...
  84. Medicare's financial woes are making a lot of local officials sick. They are concerne...
  85. When Spring Hollow Reservoir in Roanoke County, Va., comes on line this winter, it ma...
  86. When Alliance, Ohio, decided build a new water treatment plant to replace an outdated...
  87. He was dubbed "dirty little Richie" by a liberal state senator and named one of Illin...
  88. The Orange County Water Authority (OCWA) in southeastern New York State completed a l...
  89. Upstream water users are wary of the impact on vital water and power supplies as conc...
  90. Over 250,000 times each day dispatchers ask the question: "9-1-1. What is your emerge...
  91. The $194.5 million Calumet Tunnel, part of the Calumet Tunnel System in Chicago's sou...
  92. It is 4:25 a.m., and the dispatcher is looking forward to finishing the shift at the ...
  93. In June 1993, a lightning storm passed over the Public safety Answering Point (PSAP) ...
  94. Digital Signature legislation refers to statutes, adopted by two states (Utah and Cal...
  95. Small towns across America are losing business because existing and potential busines...
  96. The Fred Hartman Bridge across the Houston Ship Channel in Texas opened this past Sep...
  97. For more than two years, West Wendover, Nev., has been self-funding the health covera...
  98. Sandoval County is a rural New Mexico region of approximately 4,000 square miles wher...
  99. The Cape Girardeau, Mo., water system, which serves a population of around 36,000, is...
  100. Newly promulgated Risk - Based Corrective Action (RBCA) guidelines will result in sub...
  101. The primary components of a comprehensive stormwater management program are: establis...
  102. Norwich, N.Y., is a small, rural, picturesque city about midway between New York City...
  103. Even the best IS manager makes decisions that are regretted later -- hiring an employ...
  104. Over the past 10 years, Indianapolis had seen passengers on its publicly owned bus sy...
  105. The United States Golf Association (USGA) has established an environmental program re...
  106. Since the fall of 1993, over $5 billion in bonds has been sold in California to finan...
  107. A state-of-the-art information system designed to help travelers better negotiate Atl...
  108. The controversy surrounding derivatives illustrates that having a little knowledge ca...
  109. Home to more than 12 million people and several major universities, Illinois also boa...
  110. On Oct. 1, 1994, 19,000 small cities, 7.5 million commercial and light industrial fac...
  111. Whether immediate problems, emissions regulations or a desire to plan ahead are the m...
  112. Four communities in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, a region that has long suffered the ef...
  113. In September 1995, the unified government of Athens-Clarke County, Ga. (ACC), entered...
  114. In 1938, Frank Lloyd Wright first proposed an ambitious plan to construct a conventio...
  115. In 1995, the primary market in municipal securities did nearly $160 billion worth of ...
  116. With 1.5 million people behind bars, the United States imprisons a larger share of it...
  117. The Mobile (Ala.) Police Department's 10-year-old mainframe was becoming more and mor...
  118. Water Meters, Residential ABB KENT METERS, INC., 953 NE Osceola Ave. (34470), P.O. ...
  119. In 1990, Denver opened its new convention complex to rave architectural reviews. Ther...
  120. Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams wanted the city's taxpayers to finance a larger stadiu...
  121. Water Meters, Residential ABB KENT METERS, INC., 953 NE Osceola Ave. (34470), P.O. ...
  122. The Indianapolis International Airport needed help. with no market incentives to func...
  123. The responsibility for water, waste-water and reuse entry for San Antonio belongs to ...
  124. For years, construction of a bridge that would connect Shawnee Bend with U.S. Busines...
  125. The city of Newark is kicking off a new waste reduction project that includes a telep...
  126. Thompson Park in Watertown, N.Y., is located between Lake Ontario and the Adirondack ...
  127. A volunteer Cellular Citizens, Crime Watch Project has caused a sharp reduction in ma...
  128. Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers would have been right at home in modern Las Cruces...
  129. The emphasis in winter road maintenance is shifting as new tools become available in ...
  130. Transmission access is not a new term. For decades, municipal electric utilities have...
  131. Little lasts forever, and concrete bridges under heavy use are no exception. But prop...
  132. Abandoned, water-filled lead mines, dating back to the Civil War are getting a second...
  133. Give a skid-steer loader to a public works crew and it's likely members will find new...
  134. Each year, utility and cable television companies pay more than $1 billion in franchi...
  135. Accounting (*) AMERICAN FUNDWARE Flagship Co., 1385 S. Colorado Blvd., Ste. 400, De...
  136. One of the best employee benefits available to the public sector is the Section 457 d...
  137. Three out of five city officials say youth crime worsened during the past year, and a...
  138. Accounting (*) AMERICAN FUNDWARE Flagship Co., 1385 S. Colorado Blvd., Ste. 400, De...
  139. Since its opening in Spring 1994, Hummingbird Park, a minipark in Scottsdale, Ariz., ...
  140. Warrenton, Va., a small community of slightly more than 5,500 residents located on th...
  141. More than 10 years after the public unveiling of the arbitrage rebate requirement, mu...
  142. The high cost of developing geographic information system is prompting local governme...
  143. Among facilities managers, even the soundest sleepers may be tormented at night by th...
  144. Franklin County, Ohio, Auditor Joe Testa is working with officials from other local g...
  145. Boston's Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) has installed in its 18 indoor skatin...
  146. The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is exploring ways to help l...
  147. As one of the most visible aspects of a building, paint defines space, adds distincti...
  148. Twenty-four satellites orbit 11,000 nautical miles above the earth in a widely disper...
  149. My office is what was the housewares department of a vacant department store. You can...
  150. Orlando, Fla., lost no time planning for the reuse of the Naval Training Center once ...
  151. City and county governments have a bug to kill by jan. 1, 2000. But it is not a probl...
  152. Jersey City, N.J., insured its employees with a traditional "fee-for-service" plan at...
  153. West Haven, Conn., is a residential community of 55,000 on 10 square miles bordering ...
  154. Faced with replacing 500 feet of an outmoded, undersize, 8-inch sanitary sewer line w...
  155. Information technology is changing the way local governments are delivering services ...
  156. The most prominent plan to reform the nation's hazardous waste laws is drawing applau...
  157. The business of constructing and maintaining America's infrastructure is indeed costl...
  158. Baltimore's new Metro Shot Tower subway station features a unique use of glass and ot...
  159. Drivers whizzing over the Mianus River on Interstate 95 in Connecticut were blissfull...
  160. Through an innovative method of filing claims directly with insurance carriers for am...
  161. An engineering report recently prepared for the Massachusetts Highway Department and ...
  162. A one-ton dinosaur made out of trash, five-foot earthworms that make their homes in a...
  163. One of the most heavily traveled thoroughfares in the world is New York City's Avenue...
  164. Students passing notes or dozing off in Spanish class at Sand Hills High School might...
  165. To generations of G.I.s, "separation" was a blessed word, the time for discharge afte...
  166. When it came time for Anaheim, Calif, to replace the aging copper wire that linked it...
  167. When Chanute Air Force Base closed in September 1993 after 76 years of operation, reu...
  168. Los Angeles opened its Emergency operations Center (EOC) more than 40 years ago as a ...
  169. Ron Muzzall grows alfalfa and grass as part of a dairy and multiple crop farming oper...
  170. Tax credit equity obtained through the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) ...
  171. software and stylus now replace pen & paper in city operations Building inspectors ...
  172. Nestled along the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, the city of The Dalle...
  173. Since the U.S. Congress last considered changes to the Safe Drinking Water Act in May...
  174. By replacing a six-pen paper chart recorder at its 210-million-gallon Loudonville Res...
  175. The giant forest area of Sequoia National Park annually attracts more than 1.5 millio...
  176. On July 19, 1996, Atlanta will host the Olympic Games and the 2 million-plus spectato...
  177. History has been kind to the city of Hoboken, N.J. In 1846, it gave birth to the spor...
  178. The observation gallery at Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Airport is becomi...
  179. For 25 years,texas drivers have been getting their licenses the old-fashioned way: go...
  180. Moving people efficiently and safely through the places they live and work is a commo...
  181. Washington, D.C., cops seem to be constantly under fire. But now, they are learning h...
  182. Wastewater collection systems in the United States are in disarray. About 60 percent ...
  183. Wolf Creek in Northern California does not look like an engineering classroom. In f...
  184. Maui County, Hawaii, is comprised of the three islands of Molokai, Lanai and Maui. Th...
  185. Southern Nevada is mostly desert. It's also one of the country's highest growth areas...
  186. Within a few hours of discovering a leak that suggested a serious problem at the Sout...
  187. The Louisville (Ky.) Empowerment Zone is made up of approximately 5,400 acres in the ...
  188. A commercia1 revitalization tax credit bill, recently introduced by Sen. Kay Bailey H...
  189. Firefighters from Scottsdale, Ariz., neighboring communities and state and federal ag...
  190. The Louisville Water Company, a municipal utility, commits nearly $10 million a year ...
  191. For several decades, microfiche or microfilm effectively solved the issue of storing ...
  192. The East Bay Municipal Utility District supplies drinking water for portions of Alame...
  193. Children living in Hudson County, N.J., which lies just across the river from New Yor...
  194. In 1970, Santa Clarita, an unincorporated area in north Los Angeles County, was a sma...
  195. The East Orange Water Commission (EOWC) serves 85,000 people in the 4-square-mile cit...
  196. Times were tough in the dusty little nowhere town of New Port Richey. The big dogs in...
  197. The roar of jets does not have to mean an accompanying roar from airport neighbors.In...
  198. North Myrtle Beach is a year-round resort located on South Carolina's Grand Strand. W...
  199. When choosing financial software, government officials face a myriad of products and ...