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Battling COVID-19: Are Local Governments Prepared?

• 20th March 2020

American City & County recently surveyed its readership to get a better understanding of their preparedness for and response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. While some communities, it seems, were under-prepared, the survey reveals most respondents felt confident in their department’s ability to handle the health crisis. Highlights from the results include: More local leaders […]

The 2019 Crown Communities Awards

• 11th March 2020

Plant trees in whose shade you shall never sit

• 18th December 2019

Brynn Myers, the city manager of Temple, Texas, has been named American City & County’s 2019 Leader of the Year.

Fear of a green nation

• 29th October 2019

Marijuana legalization is gaining momentum, and local leaders can either capitalize on this movement or get left behind

Pay us or else

• 9th October 2019

Local governments are being targeted by ransomware at an alarming rate, and very few communities are prepared to deal with the threat

Breaking the cycle

• 7th August 2019

Some cities are utilizing unorthodox tactics to end the cyclical nature of retaliatory gun violence, but critics aren’t convinced these methods work

The 2018 Crown Communities awards

• 11th February 2019

Each year, American City & County presents its Crown Communities awards to local governments that have executed the most innovative and impactful projects over the past 18 months. With cities and counties building a net-zero municipal complex, implementing an after school program that will create a pipeline of technology professionals for a city and creating a state’s […]

The 2018 Crown Communities awards

• 11th February 2019

Better bridges

• 26th November 2018

If placed end-to-end, the structurally deficient bridges in America would stretch from Miami to New York City.

The digital dragnet

• 4th September 2018

Facial recognition technology, if left unchecked, could fundamentally change what it means to be an American. In late June, Jarrod Ramos shot his way through the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., killing five and injuring two more. According to local reports, Ramos was uncooperative after Anne Arundel County police took him into custody. To identify […]