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2021 American City & County Crown Communities Award winners

From responding to the pandemic to working to mitigate the impact of natural disasters, addressing community needs to communicating with a constituency riled by national politics, it has been a tumultuous year for local governments. In recognition of the vital and oftentimes unseen work that’s daily completed by administrators, American City & County annually awards governments […]

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2021 Crown Communities Award winner: City of Aurora, Ill. Pop-up Food Pantries

With 200,000 residents, the City of Aurora is the second-largest city in Illinois, and boasts a diverse community—43 percent Hispanic, 37 percent White, 10 percent Black and 7 percent Asian. It also has about 28,000 residents (14 percent) that have incomes below the Federal poverty level that qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). […]

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2021 Crown Communities Award winner: King County’s enterprise-wide COVID-19 response

King County, Wash., covers more than 2,100 square miles in the Pacific Northwest, encompassing 39 cities, suburban areas, farmland and undeveloped natural lands that include mountains, forests and waterways. King County also was the country’s ground zero for COVID-19, with the first reported death happening in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland in February 2020, followed […]

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2021 Crown Communities Award winner: Benicia, Calif.’s ‘forward-thinking’ pandemic response

Two years ago, local governments confronted a scenario unprecedented in the last century: reports of a coronavirus spreading rapidly from Wuhan, China—the start of global a pandemic. The United States declared a public health emergency on Jan. 31, 2020, but the initial response was otherwise slow, at least from federal agencies. Many local governments pivoted […]

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Joint $4M endeavor seeks to create racial equity in municipal bond market

From its inception, America’s history is one that’s rooted in racial prejudice and inequality. Cities have, historically, expanded and evolved within the confines of that segregated system through prejudicial laws and discriminatory practices like redlining. A new endeavor launched this month by the Public Finance Initiative (PFI) and the National League of Cities (NLC), the […]

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2021 Crown Communities Award winner: Phase 1 of Minot, N.D.’s Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Plan

In 2011, Minot, N.D. experienced its worst flood event ever. Heavy rains in Canada forced public works officials there to start releasing water, which flowed into the Mouse/Souris River Basin, a 375 mile-long river adjacent to Minot that drains into 23,600 square miles. Ahead of the surge, evacuations were ordered, and residents fled. At its […]

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2021 Crown Communities Award winner: Clark County Clerk Customer Service Website Redesign

Clark County, Nevada, is the “Wedding Capital of the World,” with approximately 129,000 marriage licenses issued over the past two years, 80 percent for out-of-towners. “We do more destination weddings than any other place on the planet that we can find,” said Clark County Clerk Lynn Marie Goya. The county issue its 5-millionth marriage license […]

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U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting features Pres. Biden, Speaker Pelosi; highlights challenges, success

Between balancing budgets drawn taut by the ongoing pandemic to addressing community concerns about policing, managing vaccine drives and overseeing infrastructure projects newly funded through the bipartisan infrastructure bill, America’s mayors have a lot on their plate heading into 2022—and that’s not considering daily tasks like ensuring trash is picked up on schedule. The U.S. […]

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Three U.S. cities among Bloomberg Global Mayors Challenge winners

Bloomberg Philanthropies recently announced the 15 winning cities of its 2021-2022 Global Mayors Challenge, which includes three U.S. cities—Paterson, N.J.; Phoenix; and Rochester, Minn. The 15 winners are being recognized for designing bold and ambitious urban innovations emerging from the global COVID-19 pandemic. The winning cities submitted innovative ideas that addressed one or more of […]

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Report: Between staffing shortages, pandemic, public safety organizations face uphill battle

Between the pandemic, rancorous national politics, civil unrest and staffing shortages, it’s been a difficult few years for those working in public safety—to say the least. A new report from Rave Mobile Safety, a critical communication platform, quantifies the toll that’s been taken on the industry at large. A little more than 60 percent of […]

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2021 American City & County Crown Communities Award winners

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2021 Crown Communities Award winner: City of Aurora, Ill. Pop-up Food Pantries

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2021 Crown Communities Award winner: King County’s enterprise-wide COVID-19 response

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2021 Crown Communities Award winner: Benicia, Calif.’s ‘forward-thinking’ pandemic response

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Joint $4M endeavor seeks to create racial equity in municipal bond market

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2021 Crown Communities Award winner: Phase 1 of Minot, N.D.’s Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Plan

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2021 Crown Communities Award winner: Clark County Clerk Customer Service Website Redesign

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U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting features Pres. Biden, Speaker Pelosi; highlights challenges, success

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Three U.S. cities among Bloomberg Global Mayors Challenge winners

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Report: Between staffing shortages, pandemic, public safety organizations face uphill battle

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