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January 09, 2013
New Resource on Broadband Adoption and Bridging the Digital Divide
NLC joined together with ICF International to produce “Closing the Digital Divide: Promoting Broadband Adoption Among Underserved Populations,” a paper which explores the challenges and benefits of broadband adoption.
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January 09, 2013
2013 Technology and Communications Questionnaire
The Center for Research and Innovation at NLC is working to better understand how technology and communications issues impact cities and how we can be a resource for members. Please take a few minutes to respond to this brief questionnaire. Your responses will help inform the Center’s work in the coming year and engage a variety of stakeholders on these vital issues for cities.
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January 07, 2013
Boston’s City Hall To Go is First of Its Kind in US
In one of the more innovative city government ideas of 2012, the City of Boston recently launched ‘City Hall To Go' — a mobile City Hall of sorts, offering a diverse menu of services directly to constituents. According to the City of Boston, the mobile City Hall — inspired by popular food trucks — is the nation's first of its kind.
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January 07, 2013
New NLC Leadership Team to Launch 2013 with White House Meeting
NLC will launch 2013 with a Leaders Planning Meeting in Washington, DC. Thursday, January 10 - Saturday, January 12. As part of the meeting, the NLC leadership team will attend a White House briefing on the President's agenda for his second term and the Administration's position on key challenges facing the country.
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January 07, 2013
Columnist: Time To Enlist State Powers To Curb Deadliest Guns
Columnist Neal Peirce writes that in the wake of the Newtown massacre, now is the time to blow the whistle on the gun industry.The proven formula is the approach that curbed the tobacco industry and its life-imperiling products: public interest lawsuits filed by state attorneys general and -- or alternatively -- imposing very high taxes on ultra-dangerous automatic weapons and the ammunition to fire them.
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January 04, 2013
Expanded Peer Network to Help More Cities Increase Postsecondary Success
As part of an initiative supported by the Lumina Foundation to help communities boost local college completion rates, NLC has expanded its Postsecondary Success City Action Network to 18 cities across the country.
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January 04, 2013
Cities Jobs Response: Slow Growth Reiterates Need to Fix Deficit
In response to December's unemployment report, Marie Lopez Rogers, NLC President and mayor of Avondale, AZ said, "Today's unemployment numbers, while showing positive growth, still show the economy is in a precarious position that demands continued support.This week's fiscal cliff deal did little to address the harm the automatic spending cuts will have on the economic recovery we are only now beginning to see in our communities..."
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January 04, 2013
NLC Urges House to Pass Hurricane Sandy Aid Bill Immediately; Funding Critical to Rebuilding Efforts in Suffering Cities
In a statement, NLC President Marie Lopez Rogers, Mayor, Avondale, AZ urged the House of Representatives to act quickly today and pass the $9 billion in Hurricane Sandy aid for the national flood insurance program, and ensure that a second package gets passed later this month for the remaining $51 billion in needed storm aid.
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January 03, 2013
Fort Lauderdale Recognized for Savings in City Purchasing
On behalf of NLC, U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance recently honored the City of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for saving taxpayer dollars through the use of cooperative purchasing.
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January 02, 2013
Fiscal Cliff Bill Passes the House; Cities Still At Risk
The House of Representatives passed The American Tax Relief Act of 2012 aimed at averting the fiscal cliff of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts that threatened to throw the economy back into a recession. The measure protects the Bush-era tax rates for individuals and families earning less than $400,000, extends jobless benefits for two million Americans looking for a job and temporarily delays automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense programs that were set to go into effect on January 2, 2013.
