Carolyn Orr of the Council of State Governments reports on her weekly AgClips about her attendance at a meeting of rural representatives at the White House this week to discuss the White House Rural Council, headed by Agriculture Secrtetary Tom Vilscak and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
Orr says she learned at the meeting that each cabinet-level agency now has a “go to” person for rural issues, and says any collaboration between such agencies as the Department for Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Agriculture "in addressing rural housing, transportation and utilities has to be of benefit – both socially and fiscally. With the leadership available to rural America, if we can all work together it can only be good." (Read more)
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