A new NLC report spotlights the impact of the rapidly changing mobile vending industry on cities. The report, Food on Wheels: Mobile Vending Goes Mainstream, offers best practices for city leaders to take advantage of the benefits of food trucks.
NLC and the City of Chicago recently co-hosted the Big Ideas for Small Business Summit to provide senior economic development officials and city staff from 19 U.S. cities the opportunity to discuss best practices for small business development.
In this interactive seminar to be held at the Congress of Cities in Seattle, city leaders will learn how to shape and deliver their stories.
NLC is accepting applications for 2014 Officer and Board of Director positions. The online candidate forms are due by Wednesday, October 16.
NLC highlights four initiatives that show how small and large cities throughout the U.S. are taking creative steps to solve local problems.
“What a shame that Congress couldn't get its act together to fund the federal government. Instead, for the first time in 17 years, the federal government is shutdown," says NLC Executive Director Clarence Anthony.
Local officials have until November 5, 2013 to weigh in on proposed rail safety changes that are intended to make the fleet of new and existing tank cars that carry ethanol and crude oil by rail in North America safer.
“As we approach yet another fiscal cliff, Congress seems intent on throwing the economy, our communities and the nation’s families over the side," says Marie Lopez Rogers, President of NLC.
NLC calls on local officials to take action to protect the bonds that cities rely on to finance infrastructure projects, create jobs and keep residents' taxes lower.
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