No one knows what the impacts of the Department of Government Efficiency-driven push toward federal government efficiency will have on state and local governments — or, for that matter, what ...

Efficiency and innovation are becoming central to state and local government technology strategies, spurred by a powerful combination of executive orders, changing federal funding streams and ...

A combination of hiring former feds and making smart use of artificial intelligence could help state and local agencies upskill their workforces and maximize efficiency when they need it most. Then ...

The Supreme Court's recent ruling threatens the power of racial-minority voters in Voting Rights Act cases about not just ...

The Public Technology Institute recently hosted a webinar on this year’s outlook with support from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. State and local government CIOs are ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is juggling a variety of projects to improve accounting for state and local governments as they come under pressure from the threat of reduced funding from ...

Three years ago, then-Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland went out on a limb: He announced that Maryland would eliminate the four-year college degree requirement for thousands of jobs in the state ...

"If you took the president-elect at his word and he were to implement tariffs exactly as he proposed on the campaign trail, that would be a significant hit to the U.S. and global economies," said ...

Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced its State and Local Government highlights and initiatives, as well as its upcoming events portfolio for this ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Special Issue 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. This article is part 1 of a two-part series, read part 2 here. Every day, in every state, city ...

Since President Donald Trump took office two months ago, his Department of Government Efficiency has pursued a campaign to cut what he calls bloated federal headcounts and wasteful spending. But while ...