NACo on the Move

In the News Coconino County, Ariz. Supervisor Liz Archuleta and Tarrant County, Texas Judge Glen Whitley appeared on Feb. 24 on PBS NewsHour. They discussed why immigration reform matters to counties. Archuleta and Yuma County, Ariz., Supervisor Lenore Stuart were also quoted in Cronkite News on this issue. Honolulu Civil Beat covered U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's remarks on Feb. 23, at the 2015 Legislative Conference. Telecom Reports Daily offered some pros and cons about the Federal Communications Commission's new municipal broadband order. The article cited NACo and described NACo's stance regarding the new order. Marketplace Morning Report, a national radio broadcast program, and Politico, a news journal, used NACo's sources to discuss funding for Homeland Security and why it is important for counties. A number of Japanese media outlets made an appearance at the NACo 2015 Legislative Conference to cover the first general session on Feb. 23, including three of the five leading daily papers Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun and the leading nonprofit news network in Japan, Kyodo News. NACo Officers and County Officials Immediate Past President Linda Langston was in Washington,D.C . on March 5 and 6 where she spoke at the French Embassy's FOCUS 2015 plenary session on "On the Road to Paris Climate Conference." She spoke about how to manage growing risk in city planning, how to strengthen infrastructures' resiliency and how to finance resilience. Commissioner Mary Ann Borgeson of Douglas County, Neb ., and chair of the NACo Health Steering Committee was in W ashington D.C. on March 4. She spoke at the national campaign launch of the new initiative from "Give an Hour" on mental health and wellness issues. NACo Staff On March 3 4, Rob Pressly, program manager, participated in the policy strategy meeting on Walkability and Active Transportation, hosted by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, to determine policies local, state and federal government can implement to improve walkability. Leon Lawrence has joined NACo as design director. Before joining NACo, Lawrence worked with the USA Weekend Magazine Gannett Co. as a design director. Prior to that, he worked with USA Today and Emerge magazine as an art director. He holds a bachelor's degree in graphic design from the University of Southern Mississippi.