Earlier this week, mayors from over 280 cities around the country gathered in Washington DC for the 82 annual Conference of Mayors. The conference agenda is available online here.
Here are some of the articles from about the conference from around the country – it is kind of interesting to see which issues are being highlighted for other cities.
- Why Small Town Mayors Face Multiple Disadvantages (npr)
- De Blasio Urges Mayors to Forge an ‘Urban Consensus’ (nytimes.com)
- De Blasio: Fracking Poses ‘Too Much Danger To Water Supply’ In New York (huffingtonpost.com)
- Capitol Hill: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Echoes Transportation Reformers’ #1 Demand (dc.streetsblog.org)
- Ed Lee’s DC trip: US Conference of Mayors meeting and settling a wager (sfexaminer.com)
- Miami Beach mayor stirs controversy over tech remark (bizjournals.com)
- Gov. Rick Snyder honored by U.S. Conference of Mayors, Americans for Arts, for arts leadership (mlive.com)
Pittsburgh’s new mayor, Bill Peduto, spoke at the conference on Thursday.
Pittsburgh’s @billpeduto joins us and tells mayors his story. #USCMWinter14 pic.twitter.com/QtZD8e9fBY
— U.S. Mayors (@usmayors) January 23, 2014
You can watch Mayor Peduto’s remarks in the following video starting at 59 minutes. Peduto talks about history, Rachel Carlson, sprawl, football, baseball, decline of steel industry – and gives a pretty concise history of where Pittsburgh has been and where we’re headed.
Here is a photo of Mayor Peduto with New York City’s Mayor de Blasio:
