Every Wednesday, the TFG Blog posts a series of articles published over the previous week that discusses topics of interest to local governments. Learn about emerging trends and keep up on key policy issues by browsing the TFG Wednesday News Roundup!
Partners Start Hashing Out Details of Chicago’s Digital Lab for Manufacturing
Earlier this year, Chicago secured $70 million from the Defense Department to build a digital manufacturing lab, one of six “Manufacturing Innovation Institutes” being created this year by multiple federal agencies in conjunction with the White House. The Chicago digital manufacturing lab with be the first of its kind, bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders how are designing the lab together. Read More…
Nation’s Largest Ocean Desalination Plant Goes Up Near San Diego; Future of the California Coast?
The Western Hemisphere’s largest desalination plant is going up in San Diego County, CA. The $1 billion project will provide 50 million gallons of drinking water a day when it opens in 2016. This plant is not the only plant proposed along the coastline of California; 15 others are in the works. Read More…
Tax Extenders Bill Will Await November Elections: Senator Reid
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid admitted that the $85 billion two-year tax break extender bill will likely be stalled until November elections are over. Election-year partisanship is leaving many initiatives in limbo at least until the November elections, when all 435 House of Representatives seats and 36 of 100 Senate seats are in play. Read More…
Chattanooga, Tenn., Is Proof Municipal Broadband Works
Several years ago, Chattanooga unleashed a beast: A fiber-to-the-home network spanning 600 square miles with 1 Gigabit-per-second speed available to all businesses, residences, and public and private institutions. It’s attracting businesses and industry to the area, helping to revitalize a community that once depended on pollution-heavy manufacturing. Developers, computer programmers, investors and entrepreneurs now call the city home. Read More…
Mikulski Would Like Appropriations Bills Bundled Into ‘Mini or Maxi’ Buses
The Senate Appropriations chairwoman is interested in seeing spending bills bundled together for floor consideration. The “minibus” approach would be a reprise of a strategy attempted with brief success in fiscal 2012 when the Commerce-Justice-Science, Transportation-HUD and Agriculture bills were bundled together into a cluster. Read More…
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