Action Alert-Contact Your State Representative

MTA has learned that the energy package approved in late June by the Senate is scheduled to be addressed today (Wednesday, July 23) by the House. The House has returned for a one day session  to address the remaining budget bills but has apparently also decided to address the energy package. As approved by the Senate, a bill included in that package, SB 213, pre-empts local zoning for wind generation. MTA asks that you immediately contact your state Representative and ask him or her to vote against SB 213! This legislation allows the Public Service Commission to pre-empt local zoning. Click here for a Capitol Currents story with background information. Thank you!

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• Cultivating Agriculture: Dos and Don'ts for Today's Townships (An MTA Pillars of Prosperity article)

• MTA-PAC Committee Announces 2008 Primary Endorsements

• Robinson Scholarships Awarded to Tomorrow's Local Leaders

• On Becoming a Welcoming, Entrepreneurial Township 

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• MTA-PAC announces endorsements for the August primary. Click here to view the list. 

• Intergovernmental cooperation grant information is now available. Click here to learn more. 

• A new records retention schedule for clerks' records has been approved. Click here to access the new schedule!

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