Donald Trump is in a partisan election, so he views the role differently than Mitch Landrieu and I who are are trying to lead our cities in a bipartisan or nonpartisan manner.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

People look for their leadership to lead.

The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.