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Mobile workshops highlight urban renewal, open spaces and emergency management.
June 22, 2009... The City of San Antonio is pleased to present NLC's 2009 Congress of Cities and Exposition Mobile Workshop programs. "These mobile workshops will highlight some of the city's most innovative projects and programs addressing urban renewal, green/open space, emergency management, human...

City education leaders gather in California to explore high school, college and workforce innovations.
June 8, 2009... At last week's spring meeting of NLC's Mayors' Education Policy Advisors Network (EPAN) in San Francisco, more than 35 mayors' education advisors joined representatives from the Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI) and Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI), along with other top...

Senate Finance Committee discussion paper examines a range of health care options.
June 8, 2009... In a discussion paper released by the Senate Finance Committee recently, the chair and ranking member of the committee underscored repeatedly that the United States health care system is in crisis--a crisis that is not just limited to the 46 million uninsured--and that something must be done...

Harvard University announces innovations program semi-finalists.
April 27, 2009... The Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government has announced 50 semifinalists in the 2009 Innovations in American Government Awards competition. The municipal, county, state, federal, tribal government...