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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007. Last but not least, a healthy attention should be given to equitable contracting and vendor relationships from the inception of operations. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008. The trend continued for the next several years.

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Meet the top 6 finalists for the 2023 Service to America Medals® People’s Choice Award

Partnership for Public Service

After the tragic explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, Roe’s innovative new approach—which focused on identifying and communicating technical risk and assuring a fuller, data-driven understanding of safety—changed the way NASA and the aerospace industry operate for the better.

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How to Improve Cybersecurity Through Simplicity

GovLoop

Operational Technology (OT): The convergence of IT with OT, such as integrated industrial control systems and healthcare delivery systems, has enabled improvement in enterprise systems monitoring and management, yet, as with IoT, converged systems often lack the cybersecurity capabilities to protect them from emerging cyberthreats.

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2003 ( Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania ), and it mentioning how so many of the micro jurisdictions across the state including in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is, lacked the financial capacity to serve their residents. “And

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Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Simplification – Chile has administered public procurement through ChileCompra since 2003. It operates with a regulatory framework based on transparency, efficiency, accessibility, and nondiscrimination. The OCP panel discussion and the ODI-OCP report looked at ways that open procurement supports service transformation in three ways.

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I suggested something like this to the DC Main Street program in 2003, but it was too ambitious for them to understand.) Such programs and relatedly, business plan competitions, should really be run at the scale of a city (something I suggested to DC Main Streets in 2003, but they couldn't wrap their head around it).

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Prince George's County Film Festival: developing an ecosystem supporting digital media production

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Reposition and relaunch city operated cable channels as a network comparable to what NYC does with "NYC Life" which has great programming, and a locally produced equivalent of CSPAN's BookTV and "American History TV" programming on weekends. No reason why PGC can't do it, even if DC won't. From that piece: 29.