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The devastation wrought by Supertyphoon Yolanda (international code name Haiyan) has brought both grief and anger to the Filipino people. News reports about the generally sluggish response of the government, both on the national and local level, to the disaster have triggered feelings of discontent with and doubt about the country’s disaster-response capabilities. Click here…
“Many high-profile city innovation projects focus primarily on making infrastructure ‘smart’ by embedding sensors and upgrading networking capabilities. While this is a critical foundational step, limiting the conversation to infrastructure misses an enormous opportunity to unlock the human potential within a city” Stefan Sjöström, vice president of Asia Public Sector, Microsoft Click here to continue…
<p>[Safewise] examined data from the most recent FBI Crime in the U.S. Report and married it with our own thorough research to produce a comprehensive list of the 50 safest cities in California, with 20,000 residents or more, as of 2011.If you’re considering relocating to America’s most populated state, we hope you find our California…
If the tornadoes that ripped through central Illinois last month had to occur, they may have struck at an opportune time for Cook County. Cook County has natural disaster-preparation public meetings scheduled for next week, and more people may actually attend – just because they’ve had a good scare. “Nobody wants to wake up and…
For Pennsylvania’s flagship public university, a scandal’s cost continues to grow. Penn State University now says legal fees, consultants and fines associated with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal have reached almost $52 million, pushing total known scandal expenses and lost revenue past $171 million. The new sum, which reflects the university’s cost as…
Penn State University has decided to keep confidential a preliminary report from the U.S. Department of Education based on the program review of the university’s compliance with the Clery Act in relation to allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The Clery Act is a 1990 federal law that requires universities to document all…
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on Friday, reviewing allegations that the private liberal arts school has failed at handling sexual misconduct on campus and retaliated against sexual assault survivors. A group of male and female students at Swarthmore filed a complaint with the…
WASHINGTON – The Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance Center released on Tuesday guidelines on how K-12 schools, institutions of higher education (IHE) and houses of worship can develop high-quality emergency operations plans. “These guides align and build upon years of emergency planning work by the Federal government and are the first…