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Government Shutdown
The White House and Congress failed to reach an agreement on the seven remaining Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 spending bills before Friday, December 21, 2018 and forced a partial federal government shutdown…

NLC Officers
LOS ANGELES — November 10, 2019 — Today at the 2018 City Summit in Los Angeles, the National League of Cities (NLC) elected the organization’s 2019 leadership and board of directors. NLC’s officers…

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Mayors, councilmembers and city staff from all 50 states share local innovations and solutions to the challenges facing America at National League of Cities annual conference
LOS ANGELES — November…
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Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released preliminary revised unemployment estimates. It appears that the economy actually netted 386,000 jobs this year, but only after accounting for a loss of 67,000 government jobs. This…
“What is City government doing?
How well are we doing it?
How can we do it better?”
These three questions guide Devin Quirk’s work for the City of Boston. Devin serves as…
by Mike Wallace
Seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of cities to use eminent domain to secure land for proposed private commercial development, and after more than 40 States that have reassessed and limited…

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