Tag: Legislative Update
Legislative Update: The Wide Net Cast for Legislative Goals
Over a number of weeks this fall, the League of Municipalities legislative policy process kicked off in force with regional, online and affiliate listening...
Legislative Update: A Less Than Dramatic Legislative Session
After the 2021 legislative session that saw cities and towns reap tremendous infrastructure and other funding, this year’s follow-up was, well, a bit of...
Legislative Update: Cities See Highly Successful Legislative Session
The 2021 session of the General Assembly proved to be the longest in the state’s history. Even as the year ended, legislators continued to...
NCLM Members Approve Municipal Legislative Goals
The process may have been different, but the result will look very familiar to members of the N.C. League of Municipalities.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic...
A Focus on Rural Utilities
When the Pew Charitable Trust’s publication Stateline took a look at struggling rural water and sewer systems around the country earlier this year, the...
Legislative Update: COVID-19 Dominates Legislative Process and Policy
The 2020 legislative session may have been surreal in some respects – committee meetings by Zoom, in-person meetings sometimes devoid of lobbyists and other...
Legislative Update: COVID-19 Crisis Highlights Broadband Inadequacies
As the COVID-19 crisis has closed schools and shut down businesses, it has also brought into sharp focus North Carolina’s digital divide—how some areas...