Zack Quaintance

1 week ago | govtech.com | Zack Quaintance

Massachusetts CISO Anthony O’Neill has been the state’s top cyber official for nearly three years, bringing a background as an attorney to the position. As new technologies like artificial intelligence have rapidly developed, so too have the cyber threats they pose. O’Neill and leaders across Massachusetts are working hard to keep the state cyber safe. Legal education has given me an ability to look at every issue from a research perspective.

2 weeks ago | govtech.com | Zack Quaintance

Boston has long ranked as a leader in local government tech, and this has been especially true over the past three years with Garces as CIO. He attributes this success to his team and their deep commitment to reconfiguring the way the department works to do important things at scale. Garces praised them for embracing user research, analytics and emerging technology to lessen the fragmentation that tends to exist in cities.

2 weeks ago | govtech.com | Zack Quaintance

This has helped Rogers — now director of strategic workforce planning for the Indiana Office of Technology — and his team create one of the most successful reskilling workforce programs in all of American governance: Indiana’s State Earn and Learn program (SEAL). SEAL gives people from all walks of life a chance to make a midcareer pivot, to go from restaurants and factories to working for state government, usually in tech.

2 weeks ago | comicsbeat.com | Zack Quaintance

This week’s Top Comics to Buy for April 30 was another tricky list to make, given that distribution has gotten tough to track again. There were a pair of high profile releases that I enjoyed quite a bit — Planet Death #0 from Bad Idea and the relaunch of Heavy Metal magazine — but they don’t show up as available at the shop I use to determine each week’s availability. I do, however, know they will be available in some shops. So it’s a tough choice.

2 weeks ago | comicsbeat.com | Zack Quaintance

Cartoonist: Anna MeyerPublisher: First Second – 23rd StreetPublication Date: April 2025The publication this month of Saint Catherine by Anna Meyer is a relatively big deal in graphic novel circles, because the new book marks the launch of a comics imprint for adults from the celebrated kids and YA comics publisher, First Second.