ICMA signs onto amicus brief filed by the State and Local Legal Center in McCullen v. Coakley.

  The Partnership for Sustainable Communities (a joint project of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Transportation) launched the Location Affordability Portal last week. The goal of this project is to provide the public with reliable, user-friendly data and resources on combined housing and transportation costs to help consumers, policymakers, and developers make informed decisions about where to live, work, and invest.  

That is something you should  ask yourself when thinking about how your local government is using social media. While watching an informative webinar “Social Media in Government,” that I encourage you all to watch, I learned a few key lessons about what social media can do for local governments:

This is a fee schedule that the city of bullhead uses for their community center.

This is an intergovernmental agreement between the City and the Bullhead City Elementary School District that would allow the City to turn the elementary school...