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Summit Seeks New Insights for Attracting and Retaining Talent
July 21, 2008
Fall National Meeting to Address Federal Support for Cities
July 9, 2008
Innovation Expert to Keynote Creative Cities Meeting
June 26, 2008
Carol Coletta's Speech to the Tennessee Municipal League
June 22, 2008
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National Meeting: New President, New Relationship with Cities
August 14, 2008
Two days after the Presidential election, CEOs for Cities will convene in Chicago for a special one-day meeting to challenge the President-elect and his transition team to establish a new era of cooperation between the Federal government and America's cities. At a national press conference during the Nov. 6 meeting, our network of urban leaders will commit itself to innovative bottom-up initiatives and will ask a fresh-start Administration to meet us halfway in a collaborative working relationship to make the best of difficult times.Representing the nation’s primary source of wealth, employment and global competitiveness, urban leaders will ask for a new attitude from the federal government – an attitude of encouragement and support for nation-building at the grassroots. For its…
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Urban infrastructure & global competition
August 27, 2008
Posted by: Kristian
Interesting commentary here by Bob Yaro, as published by the Center for and Urban Future. Mr. Yaro suggests that in order for the U.S. to compete with China's fast growing economy, it will have to take a more aggressive approach to building the urban infrastructure supporting it's mega-regions. China is already beginning to invest heavily in things like high-speed rail and improvements in air and water quality. The EU, Japan, Korea and China are all planning at the mega-region level with global competitiveness as goal, so the U.S. would be wise to do the same.