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CHICAGO — Jobs Slightly Down Since Last Year, State Data Shows - The Chicago metro area experienced a 0.2% drop in non-farm jobs between November 2023 and November 2024. While private education, health services, and...more
Baltimore nonprofit Waves received a $2 million grant from Baltimore’s Office of Information and Technology to deploy fiber-optic networks in low-income residential buildings, aiming to bridge the city’s digital divide...more
Gig Economy & Technology NEW YORK — City Deploys Drones for Major Storm Warnings- New York City emergency management officials have deployed five teams with multiple drones to warn residents in basement or ground-floor...more
CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker Announces Plan to Make Chicago Quantum Technology Capital- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced a plan to make Chicago a quantum technology capital at M-Hub, a business incubator on Chicago’s...more
Gig Economy & Technology- DETROIT — Electric Delivery Startup BrightDrop Becomes Part of GM- BrightDrop, a General Motors (GM) commercial electric vehicle startup formed in 2021, will no longer operate as a subsidiary and...more
The Biden administration is launching a multi-agency effort to encourage states and cities to convert more empty office buildings into housing units, with billions of federal dollars available to help spur such transitions....more
Gig Economy & Technology- BALTIMORE — Baltimore Selected as Federal Tech Hub for AI, Biotechnology The Baltimore region has been awarded a federal designation as a national tech hub, which could generate hundreds of...more
In response to a ruling request from Holland & Knight, the New York City Department of Finance (DOF) issued a ruling (FLP-22-5024) holding that a homeless shelter owned and operated by a not-for-profit (NFP) entity is...more
In the November 2022 election, the voters of the City of Los Angeles passed Los Angeles Measure ULA (United to House LA). Measure ULA—which will go into effect on April 1, 2023—establishes and funds programs for the purposes...more
Gig Economy & Technology- CHICAGO — University of Chicago Commits Millions to Startups The University of Chicago is stepping up its efforts to create more startups, committing more than $20 million to launch three new...more
LOS ANGELES — Proposition 22: California Gig Companies, Workers Get Their Day in Appeals Court- For more than a year, the California voter-approved gig economy law known as Proposition 22 has hung in the balance after a...more
Massachusetts’ Energy Facilities Sitting Board approved a special permit for a controversial electrical substation in East Boston. The permit allows the project to circumvent 14 final environmental permits. 84% of Boston...more
Last week, Mayor Kenney formally introduced his budget to City Council. His proposed budget includes: Public Strategies provides more detailed analysis of the budget proposal here. ...more
On Wednesday, June 10, 2020, Governor Janet Mills issued a proclamation extending Maine’s state of civil emergency through July 10, 2020. This is the third proclamation renewing the state of civil emergency....more