Colin Wood
I'm a reporter and editor working at Scoop News Group. You can contact me by email, or securely using Signal: cwood.64
I'm a reporter and editor working at Scoop News Group. You can contact me by email, or securely using Signal: cwood.64
Mar 12, 2025 Arizona’s governor unveils (a more careful) efficiency plan: ‘We will not slash and burn’
Mar 6, 2025 Iran war will bring wave of ‘low-level cyber activity,’ says intelligence group
Feb 23, 2026 Prominent access broker pleads guilty to ‘obtaining information’ from Oregon state government computer
Feb 9, 2026 Tarek Tomes, the Minnesota governor’s tech chief, will move on
Jan 26, 2026 Minnesota Gov. Walz appears unimpressed by Pam Bondi’s demands
Jan 8, 2026 Wyoming’s cryptocurrency is available for purchase
Dec 23, 2025 New York City bets on blockchain, a technology most have discarded as useless
Dec 8, 2025 Maryland becomes first state to adopt Open Law Library for its legal code
Dec 2, 2025 DHS lookup tool may expose sensitive data of hundreds of millions of Americans, secretaries of state warn
Nov 14, 2025 Creators of the new and open-source VoteSecure say mobile voting is finally ready
Oct 31, 2025 AI is catching on in government. The Beeck Center wants to help
Oct 21, 2025 Nevada’s big cyberattack spurs two new projects
Oct 13, 2025 State IT work ‘moves pretty fast,’ NASCIO 2025 survey shows
Oct 7, 2025 Eyeing accessibility deadline, states root out ancient web issues
Sept 2, 2025 Texas creates ‘hostile foreign adversaries unit’ to stop Chinese influence campaigns
Aug 19, 2025 Wyoming announces Frontier, a government-backed stablecoin
Aug 11, 2025 CISA says it’s not abandoning the states. Cyber officials aren’t so sure
July 30, 2025 Louisiana’s governor announces new IT vendor on his diner-themed podcast
July 23, 2025 Defeated state AI moratorium finds new life in Trump’s AI Action Plan
July 10, 2025 Amid cuts to federal cyber services, local election officials expect greater state support
June 26, 2025 Inspired by Trump, Texas first to fund state ‘strategic’ bitcoin reserve
June 10, 2025 States are picking sides as competing election integrity efforts move ahead
May 21, 2025 Why is Kristi Noem asking governors to build SCIFs?
Apr 29, 2025 Cyber grant uncertainty puts state programs in limbo, GAO report shows
Apr 24, 2025 Inspired by DOGE, Texas approves new efficiency office
Apr 17, 2025 Blockchain for election integrity bill resurfaces in New York
Mar 13, 2025 Federal cuts to information-sharing groups may damage nation’s security posture, warn officials
Mar 11, 2025 MS-ISAC loses federal support for threat intelligence, incident response
Feb 20, 2025 Federal cuts to election security concern secretaries of state
Feb 11, 2025 Iowa governor unleashes DOGE task force on state inefficiency
Oct 17, 2024 AI solved ‘nearly impossible’ task of finding racial covenants in county’s real property deeds
Aug 21, 2024 Cheyenne, Wyoming, elects human mayor
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