Vol. 56 No. 8 – Oct. 2021

2021 Innovation Winner/President’s Award for Innovation: Vienna takes top honors with Local Champion winner
Inside:
- Innovation Award winners
- Annual Conference highlights
About the cover: Plato wrote that “Our need will be the real creator.” This usually gets rephrased as “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Allow us to propose an additional translation: “Adversity is the engine of innovation.” Because despite (or maybe because of) the adversities of the past year, our local governments proved to be engines of innovation. Read all about the winners of this year’s Innovation Awards, including this year’s President’s Award winner!