NCBM

(New York Times/September 8, 2009) FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. - Children are returning to classrooms across the nation during one of the most tumultuous periods in American education, in which many thousands of teachers and other school workers - no one yet knows how many - were laid off in dozens of states... Read More →

(The News Star/September 6, 2009) The Obama administration has named former Bastrop mayor Clarence Hawkins as Louisiana’s state director of rural development for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hawkins will lead an agency that invested $640.5 million in the state last year to improve the economic... Read More →

Washington–Bothered by the continual negative image of the African nation of Nigeria, portrayed by the mainstream Western media, Prudence International Magazine Publisher Samson O. Agbebi has decided that it is time to act.   After hearing a report of the National Conference of Black Mayors (NCBM),... Read More →

(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/August 31, 2009) Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on August 31 put to rest any doubts about their commitment to mayoral control of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), announcing for the first time publicly that the move is necessary to tackle the state’s... Read More →

(The Wall Street Journal/September 1, 2009) The recession is finally hitting city budgets, with overall city revenues inching down in fiscal 2009 for the first time since 2002, according to a report to be released today by the National League of Cities. Weak growth in property taxes, reflecting soft... Read More →