Thirteen city teams gathered in Chicago recently for the final convening of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Communities Learning in Partnership (CLIP) initiative, a three-year project to increase the number of low-income young adults who obtain postsecondary credentials and degrees.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today that Sonja Reece, Mayor Pro Tem and Councilmember of Normal, IL will join their Intergovernmental Advisory Committee. Mayor Pro Tem Reece is a current member of the National League of Cities' (NLC) Advisory Council and a past NLC Board Member.
Two constituency groups of the National League of Cities, the Asian Pacific American Municipal Officials (APAMO) and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Local Officials (GLBTLO), went to the Hill last week to lobby for NLC's top three legislative priorities.
Last week, the Senate continued consideration of S. 601, the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), with debate expected to resume this week. The bill would authorize 18 new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood protection, navigation and ecosystem restoration projects.
Columnist Neal Perice writes about the various studies that seek to rank business climates within states and asks if there is such a thing as a "right business climate" to draw offices, industries, jobs -- and in their wake, prosperity -- to a particular region.
Last week, Senators began the arduous pathway to comprehensive immigration reform as the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first markup on S. 744, the bipartisan bill introduced by the so-called "Gang of 8" earlier this month
The third in a series of articles about the way in which the House, Senate and Administration propose to deal with federal budget items that are important to cities and towns. This article discusses 2014 funding levels for education.
NLC has published a new report highlighting promising city efforts to improve the lives of children, youth and families in communities with populations below 75,000.
NLC has reached out to its members in a variety of ways for input for the types of topics and issues to be featured at this year's Congress of Cities in Seattle, Wash. from November 13 - 16.
FirstNet announced that it will be holding a summer-long series of invitation-only, regional consultations with states, tribes, territories and localities to solicit input on the design of a public safety-grade, next-generation wireless network.
