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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Johnson joined Covered California after serving as the chief deputy director at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California’s Medicaid agency, from 2007 to 2017. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from St. Louis University.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

Government decision makers should take these swarms and their access to democratized digital technologies into account in future planning scenarios” (p. 2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND. References. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, eds., Arquilla, John and Ronfeldt, David.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

Rybak was elected Mayor of Minneapolis in 2001 and was re-elected again in 2005 to serve another term. He was also reelected in 2005 and again in 2009. He works in the town of Cooper City, Florida and was elected in 2007. The local government here strives to be accountable and accessible. Mayor Slay. City News Blog.

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Richard's Rules for Restaurant-Based Revitalization: New business models are needed for 2025

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Makan had average entree costs significantly out of step with being located in a neighborhood, not Downtown or key restaurant districts like a Georgetown DC, where patrons go out for special meals, often on business accounts (Also see " Why restaurants are fighting to avoid being special-occasion spots ," Crain's Chicago Business ).

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance. The 2007 GAO report indicates this has been the historic practice in the title insurance business. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that few losses show up post-closing. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc.)

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," (2018) -- " Yes the neighborhood will change, but it will take 10-25 years ," (2018) -- " House flipping as reproduction of space ," (2018) -- " Q: Could a community land trust help solve D.C.s gentrification crisis?

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. In classic accounts, the problem of achieving effective coordination within movements was so great as to be central to the structuring of activism (Vragra, 2013).