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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

If it isn’t service cuts, then it’s consolidation — many fire and police departments are either decertifying their operations or merging with nearby departments, Mr. Dougherty said. And I'll be honest: our response to them has largely been, heal thyself, mostly through service cuts.”

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Cities cost money to operate. I argue that that section of the Metro operates "monocentrically" while the overall design of the system is polycentric, which doesn't help the city so much--BART is a great example of a polycentric system, although SF doesn't really need it because it has its own rail-based transit system.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

Bush in 2004. Why “meeting people where they are” matters: 1) We are generally a passive voting audience, if you meet us where we are, in theory we are more likely to participate – right? First live webcast on the Internet happened in the President George W. Bush administration in 2002. Look out world.