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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Bringing Order to Council Meetings

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Robert’s Rules of Order , the standard book of parliamentary procedure across the United States, has in its origins a connection to South Ca...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Applying Ethical Standards to Local Government

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Local governments have numerous powers — regulating businesses or the ways property owners can use their land, contracting for services usin...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Main Street South Carolina Has New Ways to Participate

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At the beginning of this year, Main Street South Carolina , the Municipal Association’s downtown revitalization technical assistance program...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Getting Cities a Starting Point

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Students of arithmetic know what happens when any number is multiplied by zero: the product is still zero.  That fact, combined with South...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

A Day in the Life of the Municipal Association’s Legislative Team

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Every Monday before the legislative session begins on Tuesday, the Municipal Association’s Manager for Municipal Advocacy Casey Fields provi...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Main Street South Carolina Training Looks at “Pilates of Place”

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By Jenny Boulware, Main Street SC Manager What do Pilates and downtown commercial districts have in common?  Pilates is a form of physi...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

2019 Hometown Legislative Action Day targets Advocacy Initiatives, other bills

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Hometown Legislative Action Day on February 5 and the Municipal Elected Officials Institute the next day brought together more than 530 peop...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

2019 Hometown Legislative Action Day is here

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For the Municipal Association, the most remarkable thing about the start of the General Assembly session earlier this month is the action ...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Legislative pushes for 2019

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The Municipal Association has three Advocacy Initiatives for 2019, developed with the input of hundreds of municipal officials during the...
Thursday, January 3, 2019

MEO Institute course offerings are still expanding

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"As soon as we began the Advanced MEO Institute, people began asking, ‘What’s next?’” This is how Eric Budds, deputy executive ...