Despite reservations of two council members, under a new pilot program Cypress City Manager Peter Grant can bypass the City Council in approving select capital project contracts.

“This is a generational set of infrastructure projects that would set us up for the next hundred years and it just — poof — went away,” said Erin Burris, assistant town manager for Mount ...

Loss of FEMA Program Spells Disaster for Hundreds of Communities and Their Projects NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The textile mills that once served as the backbone of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, have ...

Loss of FEMA program spells disaster for hundreds of communities and their projects. FEMA called the BRIC grants “wasteful” and “politicized” tools, but officials and residents say they ...