City officials gathered in Santa Rosa, Calif., on August 8-9 to develop plans for sustaining the California Cities Gang Prevention Network. Over the last five years, this 13-city network has helped local collaborative teams develop comprehensive gang prevention plans, identify promising strategies for reducing gang violence, and recommend state and federal policy changes.
Mayor Pro-Tem Quentin Hart, of Waterloo, IA, has been chosen as the 2012 Michael H.T. Lynch Memorial Scholarship Recipient. The scholarship provides funding for a city official to attend NLC’s annual Leadership Summit.
Boston's new city-wide initiative aimed at helping residents lose one million pounds and move ten million miles together will be highlighted as a mobile workshop at NLC's Congress of Cities and Exposition, November 28-December 1.
Neal Peirce praises the proposal for a new intergovernmental policy council that could mold solutions to America’s current deep fiscal emergency.
On August 6, for the second time in as many weeks, President Obama signed legislation to expand and enhance the services and resources available for our service members, veterans and their families.
Neal Peirce discusses the recent blue-ribbon report on finances of the 50 state governments, issued by a task force headed by Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Richard Ravitch, recently New York lieutenant governor and a chief author of New York City's fiscal recovery plan of the 1970s.
As a result of the housing and economic crisis many cities and towns are struggling with a troublesome trend of homes being abandoned. In communities large and small concerns are being raised about how to minimize risks abandoned properties can cause.
NLC President Ted Ellis, Mayor, Bluffton, IN, responded to the July jobs numbers saying that the 8.3% unemployment rate is still too high and will only improve with much-needed federal investments in human capital and physical infrastructure and a focus on getting our fiscal house in order.
The NLC Member Relations team likes to get out to visit with member cities as much as possible. Take a look at where we've been and where we'll be traveling in the coming months.
NLC's University Communities Council had the opportunity to expand its partnerships and reach by participating at the Annual Meeting of the International Town and Gown Association (ITGA) in June in Richmond Kentucky at Eastern Kentucky University.
