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Connecting state and local government leaders
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This Week in State and Local
December
17,
2022
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Infrastructure
Daniel C. Vock
In places like Tulsa and New Orleans, community advocates are pushing for interstates that split apart Black communities to be torn down. But public agencies are floating more modest plans as they look to tap funding from a new federal program.
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Finance
Kery Murakami
A full-year budget package would set spending levels for key programs and could also include important policy changes.
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Finance
Bill Lucia
Some local officials involved in managing American Rescue Plan Act aid describe a 2026 cut-off to use up all of the money as uncomfortably close.
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Water
Daniel C. Vock
They say they're facing an untenable situation as low-income households are pressured by higher rates and systems need major upgrades. One official warns that a recent drinking water failure in Mississippi "is a harbinger of a wider national problem."
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Housing
Molly Bolan
Cities in more than a dozen states appear set to consider the tool amid high inflation and rising housing costs.
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