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- Mayors Want Service
- Lots of mayors support a proposal, which the U.S. House approved yesterday, to expand national service programs. The bill would boost the number of ...
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- We Don't Get No Stinking Chiefs of Staff
- This year's Washington meeting of the National League of Cities was all about the love from the Obama administration. Multiple cabinet secretaries addressed the ...
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- This Small Town Ain't No Mayberry
- Wait a minute. Topless coffee shops are allowed? Unless otherwise specified? I ask because a topless coffee shop opened in Vassalboro, Maine, and the only ...
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- Kids and Foreclosure: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
- The foreclosure debacle is a crisis for communities and neighborhoods. It's a financial disaster for property owners (both those threatened with foreclosure and those ...
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- Hawaiians Irked Over 'SNL' Skit
- Last weekend's "Saturday Night Live" included a skit set in a Hawaiian resort. In it, SNL host Dwayne "No Longer Nicknamed '...
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- If You're A Happy State And You Know It...
- Utah is the happiest state; West Virginia the least. That's according to a Gallup self-reporting happiness survey. Broadly speaking, there seems to be a &...
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- Homelessness Among Families
- Many states have programs to target the street people who make up the bulk of the chronically homeless. Few have comprehensive plans for families that ...
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- Rethinking foot traffic
- Urban planners tend to applaud when pedestrians replace cars (something NYC is now considering for Times Square.) But officials in Boston are now considering the ...
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- View from the Counties: Hard Times Through 2010, Real Help from D.C.
- The National Association of Counties (NACo) begins its annual legislative conference tomorrow in Washington, DC. Earlier this afternoon, NACo President Don Stapley, a county supervisor ...
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- Cataloging Digital History: A New Role For Libraries?
- A frequent topic of conversation in the local-government sphere is the changing nature of libraries. As more and more books and research resources move online, ...
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