The city of Tampa, Fla., has a new app to help cut waste and promote the reuse of just about anything. Tampa Trash and Recycling, as a part of the city’s Spring it Forward campaign in March, showed residents that … Continue reading →
Ohio is removing lead water pipes in various municipalities across the state. The H2Ohio program was launched by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in 2019 as a larger initiative to not only remove lead water pipes but also reduce agricultural phosphorus … Continue reading →
Tomorrow’s public managers depend on the investments made in their professional development today. That’s the premise behind a partnership between the city of Laredo, Texas, and the Texas A&M International University Master of Public Administration Program that has resulted in … Continue reading →
Conde Nast Traveler twice named Mason City, Iowa, to its list of “World’s Best Cities for Architecture.” The Midwestern metropolis keeps prestigious company, with Paris, Dubai, Istanbul and Miami making the same list. Why was Mason City included? Frank Lloyd … Continue reading →
“Six feet under” has a couple of significant meanings for New Orleans, La. More than half the city, much of which was developed on reclaimed swampland, lies several feet below sea level and is sinking at the rate of almost … Continue reading →
Howard County, Md., has recently taken on an ambitious Woodcrest Drive Stream Rehabilitation Project that began in June 2022 and is projected to be completed in March 2023. The project involves restoring approximately 3,637 linear feet of stream along four … Continue reading →
Each year, emergency dispatch services receive approximately 240 million 911 calls. Of these calls, 28.5 million request an ambulance or other health assistance. With the average charge for an ambulance ride costing between $1,500 and $1,600, those calls add up … Continue reading →
This summer, the township of Montclair, N.J., celebrated becoming one of a few locations in the Garden State to earn designation as a Monarch City USA community. Montclair earned the honor by demonstrating it has planted milkweed and other nectar … Continue reading →
When you think of Bloomington, Ind., you wouldn’t be faulted for immediately thinking of the classic sleeper, “Breaking Away,” which was filmed there in 1979. But there’s much more to Bloomington than that film and Indiana University. Here’s something else … Continue reading →
Two towns in South Dakota, 13 miles apart, are kindred spirits — in their origin, ruggedness and infamous debauchery. Deadwood and Sturgis are both municipal offsprings of the Black Hills Gold Rush in the 1870s, and their initial populations were … Continue reading →
Millions of Americans are avid cyclists. Although popularity of the leisure activity has declined among children and teenagers over the last decade, during the same time period it rose among young adults and remained steady in other adult demographics. The … Continue reading →
