Dubuque adopted a city-wide sustainability program in response to fears that the living standard of future would be impeded by the way residents were using resources...

San Pablo Avenue is a stretch of road along San Pablo's western edge that was known to residents as unattatractive and unfriendly to pedestrians.

Leesburg's Enterprise Performance Incentive Program is a system for increasing employee stake in Leesburg as an organization.  

The City of Davenport was suffering from an exodus of residents to the suburbs, loss of job-creating industries, and the housing troubles of the Great Recession.