U-S Conference of Mayors

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell is in Washington, D.C. through Friday to attend a conference of mayors from nearly 1,400 of the largest cities in the country.

Mayor Mitchell, the public is growing increasingly weary of elected officials who chose to defend anarchy and chaos over law and order.

Last week's two-day national mayor's summit on smart cities and new energy technologies at New Bedford's Whaling Museum has led to the creation of "The New Bedford Principles," a six-point energy recommendation that the U.S. Conference of Mayors will make to Congress and the Trump Administration to hopefully be included with the president's planned infrastructure overhaul.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Energy Policy Committee finished off a two-day summit on smart cities and energy technologies with a press conference on Friday morning.

A summit on smart cities and energy technologies sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors Energy Policy Committee kicked off in New Bedford on Thursday.

New Bedford is hosting a national mayors' summit on smart cities and energy technologies Thursday and Friday, with about 20 mayors, industry experts and policy leaders meeting to discuss renewable energy technologies.

New Bedford Mayor Jon MItchell will participate in the U.S. Conference of Mayor's annual meeting in Miami this weekend.  The meeting comes as some on the City Council ponder whether to eliminate the $8 thousand dollar annual membership dues required for Mitchell to continue to belong to the organization...

NEW BEDFORD — A vacant lot that once housed two historic homes in New Bedford's Abolition Row neighborhood is springing back to life with new purpose. The City of New Bedford and the New Bedford Historical Society are creating Abolition Row Park on the site, located at the corner of Seventh and Spring Streets...

Black Lives Matter protestors are giving America's mayors an earful. Demonstrators protesting the killing of a Chicago teenager by police and the contaminated water crisis in Flint, Michigan disrupted the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, DC today...

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell has been named Chairman of the U-S Conference of Mayors Committee on Energy. The appointment was announced by the President of the Mayor's group, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake of Baltimore. Mitchell will chair the committee next week during the 84th winter meeting of the U-S Conference of Mayors in Washington...