↓
 

The Municipal

The Premier Product & Equipment Magazine for America's Municipalities

  • Home
  • View Issues
  • Products/Resources
    • Cooperative Purchasing
    • Facility Management
    • Fleet
    • Public Safety
    • Public Works
    • Street & Highway
    • Waste & Recycling
  • Featured Articles
    • Front Cover Articles
    • The Municipal Top 10
    • On the Road Again
    • What’s in a Name
  • Press Release
  • Advertise
  • Sign-Up
  • Video Marketplace
  • Trade Show Schedule
Home→Search Results development - Page 64 << 1 2 … 62 63 64 65 66 67 >>

Search Results for: "development "

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

After 100 years, a solution to ride vs. handling

The Municipal Posted on March 13, 2013 by The MunicipalAugust 2, 2023
Liquid Spring Tech

Ride quality vs. handling has been a trade-off for automotive and truck design engineers since the early development of vehicle suspension systems. Achieving a soft, compliant ride as well as controlled, stable handling has been commercially impossible until now. LiquidSpring … Continue reading →

Posted in Emergency Response, Transportation | Tagged class, compressible, handling, information, liquidspring, ride, vehicle

Indy works to develop green partnership

The Municipal Posted on March 5, 2013 by Dani MolnarAugust 2, 2023
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard

“It’s completely about national security,” David Rosenberg, director of Enterprise Development at the office of the mayor, said. “It’s about the dependence on foreign oil and the need to spend billions of dollars on protecting this oil infrastructure.” Ballard met … Continue reading →

Posted in Going Green | Tagged ballard, car, city, indianapolis, oil, police, rosenberg, vehicle

No longer if, but where, to reduce

The Municipal Posted on February 26, 2013 by Jodi MarlinAugust 2, 2023
Jodi Magallanes, Editor of The Municipal

Utilization. Justification. Everywhere you look, someone from higher up the food chain wants you to do more with less money and less equipment. Fleet managers are looking more closely than they have in a generation at whether they’re achieving maximum … Continue reading →

Posted in Editor's Note | Tagged application, burnett, city, Equipment, fleet, schulte, vehicle

Conference Preview: The Work Truck Show 2013 pulls in to Indianapolis March 6-8

The Municipal Posted on February 15, 2013 by The MunicipalAugust 2, 2023
The Work Truck Show 2013 will be March 6-8 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. It’s North America’s largest work truck event and covers more than 500,000 square feet packed with more than 550 exhibitors. (Photo provided)

North America’s largest work truck event, The Work Truck Show, is coming March 6-8 to Indianapolis. The Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis hosts the show, which is sponsored by NTEA and the Association for the Work Truck Industry and functions … Continue reading →

Posted in Conference / Expo | Tagged Equipment, green, green truck, march, ntea, summit, Truck, truck summit, work

Funding concerns for photovoltaic systems

The Municipal Posted on February 11, 2013 by Dani MolnarAugust 2, 2023
The cost of solar panels like these has dropped by nearly 20 percent over the past five years. Still, Tony Lumino, senior project development manager at Chevron Energy Solutions, suggests that cities study ways to be more energy efficient before putting in a system. (Photo provided.)

In 2008, Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, Pa., launched the Greenworks Philadelphia Initiative with the aim of making Philadelphia the greenest city in America. Since then, various green technologies have been added to accomplish that, in addition to raising public … Continue reading →

Posted in Solar Energy | Tagged city, energy, lumino, philadelphia, photovoltaic, project, solar

Camden County mua solar project: Highlighting energy solutions

The Municipal Posted on February 3, 2013 by Sarah WrightAugust 2, 2023
Rooftop systems, such as those used by the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, also provide a viable option for municipalities, using space that would otherwise go untapped. (Provided by groSolar)

Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority in New Jersey is one entity that has enabled solar energy with construction of a solar project at its Camden wastewater treatment plant.1 The project entered its planning phase in 2011 and construction of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Going Green, Solar Energy | Tagged camden, construction, energy, grosolar, project, projects, resor, solar

TOP 7 ways 2013 federal funds might flow your way

The Municipal Posted on January 17, 2013 by The MunicipalAugust 2, 2023
Top 7

Transportation investments: According to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the surface transportation reauthorization that took place in 2012 represents an 80 percent increase in funding over the previous surface transportation reauthorization. Over the next six years, $47 billion … Continue reading →

Posted in Funding & Finances | Tagged billion, broadband, budget, infrastructure, projects, public, transportation

Maple Grove, Minnesota: Bucking the trend

The Municipal Posted on December 17, 2012 by Carrie SchmittAugust 2, 2023

Maple Grove, Minn., is known for its central location just 25 minutes from Minneapolis. While other towns have struggled in recent years due to the economic recession, Maple Grove has ranked in the top five fastest-growing cities in Minnesota for … Continue reading →

Posted in Town Profile | Tagged businesses, city, grove, growth, madsen, maple, minn

Survey: City revenues continue to fall, leaders challenged to do more with less

The Municipal Posted on December 14, 2012 by The MunicipalAugust 2, 2023
Badger’s new 470TM telescoping boom excavator helps municipalities be more efficient with their roadway maintenance.

A new report released by the National League of Cities showed municipalities continue to face the prolonged effects of the economic downturn. According to the City Fiscal Conditions report, released in September, city revenues continued to fall for the sixth … Continue reading →

Posted in Equipment | Tagged 470tm, badger, cities, company, Equipment, excavator, municipalities, new

Striving to build a better environment

The Municipal Posted on December 10, 2012 by Julie YoungAugust 2, 2023
Barb Anderson

Barb Anderson, 2012-13 chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Advocacy Committee, says she has a passion for sustainable building. She also has more than 25 years of experience in architecture and sustainable design. Through the USGBC, the Oates Associates … Continue reading →

Posted in Going Green | Tagged anderson, building, committee, communities, green, practices, sustainable, usgbc

Looking ahead to 2013 Global economy will be the wild card

The Municipal Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dani MolnarAugust 2, 2023
The city of Gladstone, Mo., is undergoing some construction projects this year.

With 2013 looming, cities are looking into the future for the potential to create growth. The Municipal asked mayors of three very different cities to describe their outlooks for their cities under their leadership, and discovered cities that work internationally … Continue reading →

Posted in Funding & Finances | Tagged cities, city, economic, gladstone, international, racine

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Our Sponsors

Privacy Policy | Terms of Service

Proud Members of:

↑