Official Publication of the National League of Cities OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES
NATION’S CITIES WEEKLY
Volume 35, Number 9 | march 5, 2012
IN THIS ISSUE
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House, Senate Hearing Focus on Local
Water Infrastructure Needs, Financing
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From NLC’s Blog: Innovation and
Cities – Reframing the Dialogue
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Where We Stand: Modernize America’s
Education and Job Training Systems
NLC Officially Welcomes
Sustainable Cities Institute
by Tammy Zborel
NLC’s Sustainability
Program is proud to offi-
cially announce and wel-
come the Sustainable Cities
Institute (SCI) to the Center
for Research and Innovation.
Announced last fall, and
celebrated throughout the
2011 Congress of Cities and
Exposition, the official transi-
tion of SCI to NLC under-
scores the organization’s com-
mitment to locally led sustain-
ability and marks the begin-
ning of a significant expansion
of NLC’s work in this area.
see page 6, column 1
Enzi to Address City Officials at
Congressional City Conference
by Cyndy Liedtke Hogan
Senator Michael Enzi
(R-Wyo.) has joined the lineup
of keynote speakers for NLC’s
Congressional City Conference
in Washington, D.C.
Michael Enzi
net secretaries — Transportation
Secretary Raymond H. “Ray”
LaHood and Secretary of Labor
Hilda Solis.
Enzi has served as
Wyoming’s 20th U.S. Senator
since 1997 and has a reputa-
tion on Capitol Hill for his
unique way of breaking down
party lines and working across
see page 8, column 1
Senate to Continue Debate on
Transportation Bill
by Leslie Wollack
Newspaper Handling
The Senate will begin debate in ear-
nest this week on S. 1813, a two-year,
$109 billion transportation authoriza-
tion bill providing funding for federal
highway, bridge and transit programs
after clearing controversial, non-related
amendments last week.
Senate leadership has not indicated
how it will proceed on the 220 amend-
ments more germane to the transporta-
tion debate, including one on eminent
domain (see related story on page 3).
Local officials are encouraged to con-
tact their Senators to support the fol-
lowing NLC-backed amendments:
• Begich: to restore the local
funding share under the Transportation
Mobility Program, the new name given
to the Surface Transportation Program;
see page 8, column 1
