This past weekend, the South by Southwest Conference and Festival kicked off in Austin, Texas and for the first time since 2019, the United States Conference of Mayors was able to convene the Civic I/O Mayors Summit in person alongside the larger conference. Austin Mayor Steve Adler hosted nearly 20 mayors for this year’s summit.
December 7, 2017 Mr. Ajit Pai Chairman, Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 20510 Re: Restoring Internet Freedom Draft Order (WC Docket No. 17-108) Dear Chairman Pai, We are writing to you on behalf of the National League of Cities and The United States Conference of Mayors to express our opposition to the recently-released “Restoring
Ben Barber died Monday. Many of you know him from his book If Mayors Ruled The World. He wrote 17 books, his latest, Cool Cities, was published a few days before his death. Noted academics heralded him as one of the world's greatest political theorists. Universities and academics and national governments awarded him the highest honors for
