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

Partnership for Public Service

While all our Sammies finalists represent the very best in government, this award grants special recognition to the finalist who receives the most votes from the general public.  Continue reading to learn more about these outstanding civil servants and vote for your favorite to be crowned the 2023 People’s Choice Award winner.

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Michael Ramos: Supreme Court Integrity and the Midterm Elections

Policy Chats

Ramos was elected as San Bernardino County’s District Attorney in 2003 and served in the position until 2019. You may think your vote doesn't count, but it does. Ramos was elected as San Bernardino County’s District Attorney in 2003 and served in the position until 2019. You may think your vote doesn't count, but it does.

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Supreme Court Integrity and the Midterm Elections

Policy Chats

Ramos was elected as San Bernardino County’s District Attorney in 2003 and served in the position until 2019. You may think your vote doesn't count, but it does. Ramos was elected as San Bernardino County’s District Attorney in 2003 and served in the position until 2019. You may think your vote doesn't count, but it does.

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Supreme Court Integrity and the Midterm Elections

Policy Chats

Ramos was elected as San Bernardino County’s District Attorney in 2003 and served in the position until 2019. You may think your vote doesn't count, but it does. Every vote from a local school board race to the United States president is key to our society continuing to be what we are in the world.”.

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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.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). Flickr photo by Ken Lund.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I argued for years that the move by the teams to DC from the suburbs weren't the reason that the Downtown East End began revitalization.