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Harrisburg City Council reverses vote on Broad Street Market | #citycouncil

Listen to this article Harrisburg City Council members on Tuesday night reversed their recent rejection to delay the rebuild of Broad Street Market’s iconic brick building. The city council had issued on May 14 a 5-2 vote rejecting a proposal that would have assigned the rebuilding of the historic building to Alexander Building Company. Fire […]

Mayor

Catalyze 2024: Mayor Ken Welch

We’re asking thought leaders, business people and creatives to talk about the upcoming new year and give us catalyzing ideas for making St. Pete a better place to live. What should our city look like? What are their hopes, their plans, their problem-solving ideas? This is Catalyze 2024. St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch has some […]

Arkansas

Arkansas Governor Hutchinson breaks ground on a new facility at North Arkansas College

HARRISON, Ark. (KY3) – North Arkansas College (NAC) held a public ceremony to signify the groundbreaking of the new Center for Robotics & Manufacturing Innovation (CRMI). Governor Asa Hutchinson, one of the project’s lead supporters, was in attendance Monday as the featured speaker. “This is a culmination of what we dreamed of and what we […]

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Mayor Teresa Ervin talks about city’s many partnerships | Local News

FLORENCE – City of Florence Mayor Teresa Myers Ervin said it is recommended that Florence needs up to 1,000 residential properties or people in downtown to keep it flourishing. “So we are working with builders to be sure that we have plans to have new homes basically downtown,” she said. Ervin told Florence Rotary Club […]

City Council

Omaha City Council approves contract with National League of Cities Race, Equity and Leadership team | #citycouncil

Omaha’s City Council approved a contract Tuesday with the National League of Cities Race, Equity and Leadership team, for training for city employees. Keith Station is deputy chief of staff in Mayor Jean Stothert’s office and leader of Omaha’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. “This is a good thing, a reason to celebrate really, even […]

Arkansas

University of Arkansas makes transportation plans

The University of Arkansas is evaluating its role in mobility education and research, developing a fresh plan for what the curriculum could look like in the near future, Heather Nachtmann, industrial engineering professor and associate dean for research, told Axios. Why it matters: Arkansas companies unabashedly want the state to be a leader in “next-generation […]

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City’s longest-serving mayor writes ‘My Story: Bringing Beverly Back From The Brink’ | Local News

BEVERLY — To most Beverly residents in the 1970s, Bill Scanlon was the guy who laid off hundreds of people at the United Shoe Machinery Corp. — the executive who had been brought to town to cut and slash the workforce at the city’s largest employer. So when Scanlon decided to run for mayor in […]

Alabama

Alabama adding more credentialed employees to the workforce | Alabama | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

(The Center Square) – Alabama is well on its way to adding more than half a million workers to the economy who have postsecondary education. Republican Gov. Kay Ivey says the state has added 214,922 credentialed workers to the workforce under the Success Plan since the effort was launched in 2018, according to the Center […]

Alabama

Alabama adding more credentialed employees to the workforce | National News | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Arkansas

NWA needs health care workers

Recruiting and retaining a robust health care workforce will be essential in the coming years as the industry struggles to meet increasing demand, according to a new report. Driving the news: Heartland Forward, a Bentonville-based nonprofit focused on the economy in “the heartland” — 20 states in the Midwest and South — released a report outlining […]