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This Week

Features
National Plan Unifies Homeland Response
County Courts Competition
Save Your Quarters: States Add Toll Roads
News
Does Your Community Measure Up?
Web Site Links Americans with Troops Overseas
100 Years Young, Forest Service Maps the Future
News of the Weird
Links

Features

National Plan Unifies Homeland Response

The U. S. Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with federal departments and agencies, state, local and tribal officials, private sector and national and international associations, announced completion of the National Response Plan.

County Courts Competition

To reduce sole-source procurements, bid waivers, and contracting costs in Miami-Dade County, FL, a Competitive Acquisition Unit encourages vendor competition.

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Save Your Quarters: States Add Toll Roads

States are taking the free out of freeway. Toll roads are booming because gas tax revenues are woefully inadequate to pay for constructing and improving highways.

News

Does Your Community Measure Up?

Communities across the U.S. are facing numerous challenges, including homeland security, public education, rising medical costs, declining tax bases, and many others. The 2005 All-America City Award will recognize communities that are overcoming these challenges and others through innovation and collaboration. Applications for the 56th annual award are due by March 10.
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Web Site Links Americans with Troops Overseas

The Department of Defense launched a nationwide program, America Supports You, and new Web site to showcase the many activities taking place across the nation in support of the troops. The Web site, which highlights organizations and individuals coordinating local and national support efforts, has logged nearly a million hits since its inception.

Individual citizens, businesses, schools, veterans groups and others have visited the site www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil to register their activities, send a message to the troops and identify programs of support in their own communities.

100 Years Young, Forest Service Maps the Future

The U.S. Forest Service marked its 100th anniversary last week with Centennial Congress which aims to initiate a national dialogue on the challenges facing America's forests. The gathering commemorates the 1905 American Forest Congress, which led to the creation of the U.S. Forest Service, now an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

News of the Weird
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