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Video: Future bright for open data movement
150 150 Cheryl Getuiza

Municipalities throughout the state have moved to provide data to the people. San Francisco is one of the first cities to hire a Chief Innovation Officer. The City also has an open data policy. The city of Palo Alto has an extensive open data platform.

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Possible: Rail project under budget & on-time
150 150 Cheryl Getuiza

VIDEO: Construction completed thanks to public-private partnership

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SB 360: A ticket to the 21st century for California voting machines
150 150 Ed Coghlan

County voting systems in California are aging rapidly and the process for approving voting systems is doing little to help certify new innovative systems or to spur new approaches to voting system development.

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California Legislature notches a winning season
150 150 Jim Mayer

From CA Fwd’s perspective – nonpartisan, good governance – 2013 was a winning season, not a championship year, but steady progress.

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Data brings power to the people if it goes from information to insight
150 150 Mark Orcutt

Achieving such a transformation is not an easy task when you are faced with government information that is relatively manageable in size, but often overwhelmingly complex.

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This week in Realignment: September 13, 2013
150 150 Christopher Nelson

In three weeks, it has gone from head-butting to hand-shaking over exactly how to go about reducing California’s state prison population by another 8,500 inmates

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