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Municipalities should budget for seven essential AI areas in 2026, along with an AI readiness assessment. These seven areas include licensing for AI productivity tools, AI enhanced cybersecurity, data analytics and governance, resident facing chatbots, AI integrations within existing systems, staff training, and pilot funding for future use cases.

Columbus Mayor Skip Henderson didn't always see child care as an economic issue, but now the city is taking concrete steps to make quality child care more affordable and accessible for working families.

GeorgiaForward recently released two guides to help cities connect young people with civic life as part of the America250 celebration. In this Q&A, GeorgiaForward Managing Director Sadie Krawczyk talks about what's in the guides and how cities can put them to use.

A new study from Harvard's Opportunity Insights team examines the long-term effects of the federal HOPE VI program, which invested $17 billion between the 1990s and 2000s to transform 262 distressed public housing developments across the country into mixed-income communities.

On January 14, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in Case v. Montana addressing when police may enter a home without a warrant during an emergency. The decision settles a longstanding debate among courts about what standard officers must meet before conducting warrantless entries to help someone in crisis.