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Portland hosts National League of Cities Black Male Achievement Convening
2015-10-14 00:54:17| PortlandOnline
Mayor Hales will host a joint press conference on Thursday
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Learning from the Millennium Development Goals: Improved sanitation, drainage in cities
2015-10-12 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: World leaders have agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but arguably Goal six -- the water and sanitation goal -- will have the hardest job building on the work undertaken by the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A timely special double edition of the journal Environment and Urbanization on "Sanitation and drainage in cities" explores persistent gaps in urban sanitation provision and ways to address them. The water MDG was widely acknowledged as the furthest from delivering...
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ConAgra's move from Omaha to Chicago shows that big cities still reign
2015-10-11 11:44:45| Food - Topix.net
ConAgra Foods' new CEO recently tried telling the people of Omaha that moving the headquarters to downtown Chicago was "not an indictment of Omaha." Of course it was.
Flint's water woes should be a lesson to other cities -- Andrew Heller
2015-10-09 23:17:18| Automakers - Topix.net
I live near Flint, which is that big city at the base of the Thumb. I'm sure most of you haven't been here, nor will you ever, given all the headlines in recent decades about its descent into crime and poverty.
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Michael Bloomberg Takes Climate Fight To Cities
2015-10-08 13:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WBUR: Mayors from around the world are gathering at the State Department in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to discuss climate change. It`s an effort to figure out how to combat climate change on a local level, and how to figure out what works. It`s part of the "Our Cities, Our Climate" initiative, a partnership between the State Department and Bloomberg Philanthropies, and it comes ahead of Paris climate talks in early December. Here & Now`s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Bloomberg Philanthropies founder...
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