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7 tips for growing a successful local farmers market

It’s an early spring morning on a Saturday in Madison, Wis., and the sunshine is still sipping...

EPA to implement national limit on “forever chemicals” in drinking water

For the first time ever, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement national...

2023 Crown Communities Award winner: Muscatine Organics Recycling Center

The Muscatine (Iowa) Organics Recycling Center (MORC) has a food waste depackaging operation...

Pension funding is down over the last decade, but has held steady through the pandemic

Two decades ago, most American cities were making adequate contributions to their municipal pension funds—the national funded ratio-average for cities across the nation was more than 100 percent. But that percentage dropped when the dot-com bubble popped, and in 2007, the Great Recession pushed it down further. It’s hovered in the low 70s since 2012.  At the pandemic’s onset last year, […]

Quality of digital services is intrinsically tied to public confidence

Between rancorous national debates and the ongoing pandemic, trust in the federal government has eroded in recent years. These days, it’s hovering around an all-time low.  Locally, constituents hold higher levels of trust in their elected leaders—perhaps because they share the same community. But even so, a recent survey of more than 6,000 American adults by Deloitte, a global consulting firm, identified “a number of […]
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Federal report shows rapid expansion of solar, projects all homes could be sun-powered by 2035

By 2035, solar energy could power 40 percent of America’s electrical grid and nearly half by 2050. This advancement would deeply decarbonize the nation’s grid and create more than a million jobs “without raising electricity prices,” based on a report released this month by the Department of Energy.  To that end, findings outlined in the department’s “Solar Futures […]

Study: More skilled laborers are needed ahead of infrastructure legislation

America’s roadways, bridges and dams are crumbling. But even though infrastructure is vital to the nation’s health, city managers are finding it difficult to fill key industry jobs. As lawmakers look toward infrastructure spending initiatives, addressing labor shortages should be a part of the discussion, according to a new report released Tuesday by the National League of Cities (NLC).  “As this […]

New emergency communications system to integrate cross-jurisdictional data into one digital space

Over the last two decades, the emergency management community has recognized that natural disasters and other emergency situations don’t always follow county lines or town borders. Interagency collaboration is vital—mutual aid agreements expand the capacity of first responders, for example, and data sharing solutions can give local telecommunicators region-wide data at the click of a mouse button.  One such cloud-based advancement scheduled to […]

Digital mapping tool gives land managers, policy makers, access to site-specific climate data

There’s an intrinsic link between America’s most biodiverse forests and those that hold the highest potential for future carbon sequestration—the capture of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A recently released mapping tool gives cities and counties of all sizes access this climate data, which developers say can help officials identify important regions and focus conservation efforts. “Conserving these […]

Webinar: Developing an emergency mass-communication strategy is critical

On a November evening five years ago, Tennessee firefighters fielded calls about a fire burning in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near Gatlinburg. A few days later, high winds pushed the fire into the park’s Chimneys Picnic Area—out of control.  Today, the Chimney Tops 2 Fire is considered one of the most devastating fires in the state’s history. Cell phone reception went down. The region’s 9-1-1 […]

Two weeks on, Hurricane Ida recovery effort is ongoing

It’s been about two weeks since Hurricane Ida swept ashore in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, bringing with it catastrophic rainfall and forceful 150 mile per hour winds. Leading up to the storm’s landfall, much focus centered around whether New Orleans’ storm infrastructure, which was completed following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, would hold up to a real-world test—it did. In the aftermath, […]
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