Official Publication of the National League of Cities OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES
NATION’S CITIES WEEKLY
Volume 34, Number 26 | July 4, 2011

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U.S. Senate, NLC Debate Cybersecurity
Policy
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2011 Congress of Cities: Where Will
You Get Your Next Big Idea?
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NLC Leadership Summit: Leading
Innovation in Local Government
Senate, House Poised to Take on Transportation
Authorization Legislation This Month

by Leslie Wollack
Celebrating the 55th anni-
versary of the Interstate high-
way system, House and Senate
transportation leaders are close
to introducing transportation
authorization bills, although
they will look very different.
Both proposed versions of
the bill will renew the cur-
rent federal program, known as
SAFETEA-LU, which expired
in September 2009 and has
been extended by Congress
until the end of this fiscal year
on September 30, 2011.

South Bend, Ind., Partners with Notre Dame to
Attract High-Tech Talent, Companies

by Sandi Burtseva
Newspaper Handling
South Bend, Ind., has partnered
with the University of Notre Dame
to retain talent and attract innova-
tive, high-tech companies to the city.
In February, the partnership paid off
when Notre Dame’s Innovation Park
incubator graduated its first business
to its sister site, the city’s Ignition Park
incubator.
On February 9, South Bend Mayor
Stephen J. Luecke announced that the
city would sell land in Ignition Park
— the city’s developing, state-certified
technology park — to Data Realty LLC,
a startup company based at Innovation

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South Bend, Ind., Mayor Stephen J. Luecke, left, and Rich Carlton, Data Realty president, cel-
ebrate a partnership to attract innovative, high-tech companies to the city.