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Colin Wood

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Colin Wood is StateScoop’s editor in chief. Contact him at colin.wood@statescoop.com or cwood.64 on Signal.

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The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant — The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant hums along in East Rockaway, New York, on July 1, 2019. (John Keating / Newsday RM via Getty Images)

New York unveils new cyber regulations for water treatment facilities

Cybersecurity

Mikie Sherrill — New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill delivers remarks at her election night watch party at the Hilton East Brunswick Hotel on Nov. 4, 2025 in East Brunswick, New Jersey. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / Getty Images)

New Jersey governor’s proposed budget includes ‘significant’ IT upgrades

Modernization

Greg Abbott — Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a primary election night event hosted by the Young Conservatives of Texas and the Texas Young Republicans at Cedar Door Patio Bar & Grill in Austin on March 3, 2026. (Jay Janner / The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

Texas governor orders health agencies to address Chinese cyber risk in patient monitoring devices

Cybersecurity

war in Tehran, Iran — Smoke rises after a series of explosions in Tehran, Iran, on March 1, 2026. (Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Getty Images)

Iran war will bring wave of ‘low-level cyber activity,’ says intelligence group

Cybersecurity

smiley bots — (Getty Images)

State governments are starting to pursue agentic AI

AI

LIPA power plant — The Long Island Power Authority power plant sits in Northport, New York, on Nov. 7, 2025. (John Paraskevas / Newsday RM via Getty Images)

‘You can’t separate the physical from the cyber,’ says New York’s first security and intelligence director

Cybersecurity

person holding smartphone — (Getty Images)

Washington state agency removes AI with Spanish-accented English from phone system

AI

Nebraska — (Getty Images)

Nebraska’s new cyber chief says CISOs should stop saying no

Cybersecurity

North Carolina flags on a bridge — (Getty Images)

North Carolina selects vendor for stopgap upgrade to elections system

State