City Manager’s Blog 09-16-2013

Published December 11, 2013

City Manager’s Blog 09-16-2013
Grand Rapids City Manager, Greg Sundstrom, talks about new composting guidelines, Transformation updates and ArtPrize in this episode of his City Manager Blog.

Task force looks to cut Miss. prison population
The state would spend more money trying to treat people who commit crimes to feed drug or alcohol addiction instead of sending them to prison. As a trade-off, there would be new minimums on … The state would also agree to begin paying counties when … Read more on San Francisco Chronicle

Missouri gov. denies clemency for serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin
The execution would be the first in Missouri in nearly three years and the first ever in the state to use a single execution drug, the sedative pentobarbital. "This cowardly and calculated shooting was only one of many senseless acts of extreme … Read more on Jackson Clarion Ledger

Roundup: RMU poll shows fracking support; Google to pay M settlement; more
Allegheny Health Network, the hospital system owned by health insurer Highmark Inc., will supply physicians and radiation physicists to Clarion's cancer treatment center. The 86-bed Clarion County medical center stopped providing radiation oncology two … Read more on Tribune-Review