White House, DOT announce $50M city transportation challenge A new challenge from the Transportation Department will award 0 million to a city with the best smart-enabled transportation plan. Dec 9, 2015 By Jake Williams
New York City refines open data policy with new laws A new package of five bills passed by city council aim to make the city's open data portal easier to use and more understandable. Dec 9, 2015
Google Fiber eyes L.A., Chicago for super-fast service The cities still must meet Google's data, infrastructure access, permitting and construction requirements. Dec 8, 2015
Virginia-funded cyber accelerator scores new private funding Mach37, which was previously funded entirely by the state Legislature, now has its first private partner. Dec 8, 2015
D.C. mayor, city council battle over transparency in procurement reform A pair of dueling reform bills could have major implications for hefty IT contracts and efforts to post procurement information online. Dec 7, 2015
San Francisco launches ‘Muni Mobile’ payment app for buses “You no longer have to have exact change of .25 to ride Muni”, said a spokesman for San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency. Dec 7, 2015 By Kayla Nick-Kearney
Philly works with 18F to debut city Web analytics portal One Philadelphia analyst forked code that the digital services agency posted on GitHub to develop a version of analytics.usa.gov for the city's government website. Dec 4, 2015
Oregon readies model SaaS contract for January release After years of negotiation, the state is nearly ready to lay out some standard terms and conditions for future cloud purchases. Dec 3, 2015
D.C. residents support federal intervention on drones A new poll suggests broad support for federal regulation or registration requirements for drones among people in the Washington, D.C. area. Dec 2, 2015
Partnership seeks data from 100 cities on costly court fines The Sunlight Foundation and MuckRock are joining forces to create a repository of information detailing how cities depend on court fees. Dec 2, 2015 By Alex Koma