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MILWAUKEE – Tampa, Florida and Cleveland, Ohio do not have many things in common. However, both of the cities know what it is like to be in the national spotlight while hosting the Republican National Convention (RNC). 

2012 was the year Barack Obama and Mitt Romney faced off in the race for the White House. That summer, Tampa hosted the RNC. 

“There’s so few things that you can control. You have to control what you can,” said Tampa Mayor Jane Castor. 

Castor was the police chief for Tampa during the convention. She said her…

University of Northern Colorado and Greeley city officials will host an open house next week to provide more information about the city’s planned pilot program for shared e-scooters and e-bikes on campus and in downtown Greeley.

The city is proposing to launch a one-year pilot program starting in July for community members to access the shared devices across the designated mobility zone, which reaches east of 35th Avenue to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks and north of U.S. 34 to 5th Street, with an extension north to A Street at 14th Avenue.

The open house will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the University of Northern Colorado’s University Center, 2101 10th Ave., in Columbine Suite A.

The city’s 2045 transportation master plan recommended the city take an approach of…

The 2026 Commonwealth Games could be pushed back a year as officials work to find a new state – or several cities – to host the event, an inquiry has heard.

Craig Phillips, the chief executive of Commonwealth Games Australia, on Friday said the organisation was working on plans for a “scaled-back” event that might be held in 2027.

“It may be a scaled back version of the games, given the time we have, but if you look around the capital cities around Australia … all have the capability of hosting games,” Phillips told a Senate inquiry that’s examining the Victorian government’s decision to withdraw from hosting the event.

“Even some of the smaller cities around the country have that capability of certainly contributing to a game. We have to look at all possible models…