Onward and upward
By: Deanna Hart
In the late 1940s, Princeville, N.C., looked like an ordinary eastern Carolina community with the usual businesses and services of a small town a garage,...
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Girl power With the seemingly never-ending construction occurring around Atlanta, Cynthia Good, a locally based women's magazine editor, grew tired of...
Maryland town elects first black mayor
In July, Cambridge, Md., residents elected a new mayor: Victoria Jackson-Stanley, the first African-American and first woman to hold the position in the...
Foreclosure Prevention Act will contains $4 billion for CDBG
The American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act, signed into law Wednesday by President Bush, will contain an additional $4 billion for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program...
NACo releases surveys on gas prices and foreclosures
The Washington-based National Association of Counties (NACo) has released two surveys on the effects of high gas prices and foreclosures on local economies...
Atlanta hosts National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials conference
Hundreds of city government officials are in Atlanta for the Washington-based National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials' (NBC-LEO) annual summer conference...
USCM "shocked and dismayed" at Congress' failure to fund Energy Block Grant
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee's failure to fund a new Energy Efficiency Block Grant program has the Washington-based U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM)...
Don't talk funny
By: By Bill Wolpin bill.wolpin@penton.com
Leave it to the British to remind us how to use their language. Last December, The Local Government Association (LGA) issued a list of 100 non words it...
Ahead of the curve
By: By Nancy Mann Jackson
Long before it was cool to be green, King County, Wash., Executive Ron Sims was interested in environmental issues. In fact, in 1988, as a county councilmember,...
Seat at the table
By: By Robert Barkin
After the fiasco of the 2000 presidential election, when Florida's voting process threw the nation into an electoral crisis, Congress proposed standards...
NLC program helps integrate immigrants
The Washington-based National League of Cities is launching a new program to help city officials integrate immigrants into their communities. The Immigrant...
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Show me the money? During the tough economic times that are gripping the nation, Huntington, W.Va., Mayor David Felinton is refusing a pay raise. In June,...
Roll Call
Atlanta Development Authority Tom DiGiovanni has joined the agency as chief financial officer. Previously, he was president for Seattle-based New-house...
N.H. goes green
On June 11, New Hampshire joined a 10-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), passing a law in which the state mandated efforts to reduce pollution....
New NACo leader wants partnership
This month, Don Stapley, county supervisor for Maricopa County, Ariz., will be named president of the Washington-based National Association of Counties...
Miami mayor aims to move cities forward
This month, the Washington-based U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) will induct Miami Mayor Manuel Diaz as its new president. Since taking office in 2001,...
Roll Call
Panasonic Jan Ruderman, senior director for the government sector for the Secaucus, N.J.-based electronics manufacturer, has been named vice president...
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Freshman mayor The face of local government drastically changed in Muskogee, Okla., in May when the 38,000-resident city elected John Tyler Hammons, a...
Healthy choices
By: By Bill Wolpin
Environmentalism always has been a health care issue. If we foul our nest, we're endangering our health, and if we don't stop, we'll have to find new...
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I won't drink to that In April, the Louisiana Senate rejected a proposal to make Sazerac a whiskey, sugar, bitters and absinthe concoction the state's...
Roll Call
Bentley Systems Harry Vitelli has joined the Exton, Pa.-based company as vice president for platform product management. Previously, he was vice president...
Los Angeles requires residents to fix pets
By: Annie Gentile
In February, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed an ordinance that requires pet owners to spay or neuter their cats and dogs that are at least...
All there is to know on state constitutions
A new reference book from the University of Missouri Press, The Constitutionalism of American States, examines each state's constitutional history and...
Sex industry sets up shop in small towns
By: Ed Brock
The First Amendment's free speech protection makes banning sexually oriented businesses, such as adult video stores and strip bars, nearly impossible...
Green cities need more federal help
To date, 840 mayors have vowed to make their communities by signing the Washington-based U.S. Conference of Mayors' (USCM) Climate Protection Agreement....
