With only five weeks left in the 112th Congress, Representatives and Senators are under pressure to find common ground among themselves and with the President to avoid the fiscal cliff.
This year the US Government mandated that federal agencies consider cloud computing as they make new IT investments and by 2014 that mandate will expand. What benefit does this technology have to taxpayers and to the agencies themselves? Where do these projects currently stand? And what has been the impact to Kansas City?
The news is out that during a trip to Israel in 2011, Kansas Congressman Kevin Yoder joined a group of Republican lawmakers for a quick dip into the Sea of Galilee.
When asked for ways to improve local government, most people wouldn't say that better computer programming and smart phone applications should be the first item on the agenda.
In February, Michael Bushnell of Kansas City micro-news-paper the Northeast News started working on the story of a proposed city-wide daytime truancy curfew.
