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W E E K L Y  U P D A T E    June 26,  2017
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NEMWI Launches
Senior Fellows Program

The Northeast-Midwest Institute has launched a Senior Fellows Program to affiliate national policy experts with its ongoing regional research and policy analysis. The Program's first two fellows, Charlie Bartsch and Dr. Farideh Farazmand, are both experts in urban policy and will be engaged in work related to the Institute's Revitalizing Older Cities Program.

Mr. Bartsch served most recently as Senior Advisor for Economic Development to the Assistant Administrator at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He has published extensively on the topics of brownfield reuse, housing development, state voluntary cleanup programs, and manufacturing modernization, among others.

Dr. Farazmand is Director of Graduate Programs and Professor of International Business at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, where she has taught in the Business School since 1999.  She has published extensively in the fields of urban economics, public finance, and negotiation styles.

In announcing the first Senior Fellows, NEMWI President and CEO Michael Goff stated "Mr. Bartsch and Dr. Farazmand are outstanding scholars with immense expertise in urban policy. Both will make fantastic contributions to the Institute and especially the Revitalizing Older Cities Program."

Charlie Bartsch can be reached at cbartsch@nemw.org

Dr. Farideh Farazmand can be reached at ffarazmand@nemw.org

For more information on the Senior Fellows Program, contact Michael Goff, President and CEO at the Northeast-Midwest Institute, at mgoff@nemw.org
This Week on Capitol Hill

While health care will likely dominate Capitol Hill this week, there will be key markup hearings for the FY2018 agriculture appropriations bill and the FY2018 water and energy appropriations bill. Additionally, Senate Appropriations Subcommittees will be reviewing the budget requests of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers.

A full list of key Congressional committee activity that impacts the region can be viewed below:

Tuesday, June 27th
Wednesday, June 28th
  Thursday, June 29th
For more information, contact  Matthew McKenna,
Director of the Great Lakes Washington Program at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
Silver Carp Found Past
Chicago Waterway Barriers

The Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC) announced last week that during its seasonal intensive monitoring event a silver carp was found approximately nine miles away from Lake Michigan in the Illinois Waterway below T.J. O'Brien Lock and Dam. The ACRCC's contingency response plan will now trigger a two-week period of intensive sampling and fishing in the area.

ACRCC's website can be found here.

For more information, contact  Matthew McKenna,
Director of the Great Lakes Washington Program at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.

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