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  • Georgia Votes on Regional Sales Tax Initiative for Transportation Funding, With Mixed Results

    Posted on: August 14th, 2012 by Carrie Kissel

    On July 31, voters in Georgia made their choices about transportation funding in conjunction with the state’s primary elections, with their decisions having significant impacts for the state and causing ripples in the national conversation on infrastructure investment.  Up for...

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  • Vibrant Rural Communities: Lewistown, Pennsylvania

    Posted on: August 14th, 2012 by Kathy Nothstine

    This case study was researched and written by Parrish Bergquist, NADO Research Foundation Graduate Fellow. In the mid-1990s, Tom Grbenick with the SEDA-Council of Governments (http://www NULL.seda-cog NULL.org/Pages/Home NULL.aspx) (SEDA-COG) received a call from a banker who wanted to discuss...

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  • White House Proposes Creation of National Network for Manufacturing Innovation

    Posted on: August 14th, 2012 by NADO Admin

    The White House introduced a new proposal for FY2013 to create a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) to help accelerate innovation by investing in industrially relevant manufacturing technologies with broad applications, and to support manufacturing technology commercialization by bridging...

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  • NADO Hosts Webinar with Bipartisan Policy Center on Sequestration

    Posted on: August 13th, 2012 by NADO Admin

    NADO Webinar on Sequestration (http://vimeo NULL.com/47607198) from NADO (http://vimeo NULL.com/nado) on Vimeo (http://vimeo NULL.com). Click here... to view the Power Point slides On August 13, the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), in partnership with the Bipartisan Policy Center (http://bipartisanpolicy

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  • Congress Reaches Agreement to Avoid Government Shutdown

    Posted on: August 2nd, 2012 by NADO Admin

    On July 31, House and Senate leaders announced a bipartisan agreement, with support from the White House, on an outline for a six-month stopgap spending measure (also called a “continuing resolution” or “CR”) to continue funding discretionary spending of the...

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  • USDOT Announces $17 Billion for TIFIA Loans

    Posted on: August 2nd, 2012 by NADO Admin

    On July 27, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced the availability of up to $17 billion in Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loans for critical infrastructure projects across the country. These funds were made available through the...

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  • Rural Jobs Accelerator Winners Announced

    Posted on: August 1st, 2012 by NADO Admin

    The U.S. Economic Development Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in partnership with the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Delta Regional Authority, today announced the winners of the Rural Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge. The winners are: Alaska: Bristol...

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  • Vibrant Rural Communities: Clinton, Iowa

    Posted on: July 30th, 2012 by Kathy Nothstine

    This case study was researched and written by Parrish Bergquist, NADO Research Foundation Graduate Fellow. In 1996, the City of Clinton, Iowa (http://www NULL.ci NULL.clinton NULL.ia NULL.us/), set out to improve a stretch of US Highway 30 that runs through...

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  • Federal Resource Guide of Programs to Assist Rural Communities Now Available

    Posted on: July 23rd, 2012 by NADO Admin

    A collaborative effort of U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the “Federal Resources Guide for Sustainable Rural Communities” highlights federal resources that rural communities can...

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  • NADO Executive Director Matthew Chase Named New Director of National Association of Counties

    Posted on: July 23rd, 2012 by NADO Admin

    On July 16, Matthew D. Chase, Executive Director of the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), was named as the new executive director of the National Association of Counties (NACo) during a vote of NACo’s board of directors.  Chase has...

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