2005 and 2011 - Public Administration Today

2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.

2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

JANUARY 2, 2023

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.

Webinars

Municipal Maintenance: Ready, Set, Inspect!

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21 years later H Street NE commercial district is still dirty

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

I wrote about it in a couple entries: -- " Every Litter Bit Hurts ," 2005 -- " Community cleanups (and other activities) as community building and civic engagement activities ," 2011 I would say it gave me a much better ground-based appreciation about the nature of the trash.

Public Safety

Public Safety Engagement Development Management

CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

MARCH 18, 2022

731, 735 (2011)). 2005); Altman v. 2005); Warboys v. To overcome qualified immunity, a plaintiff “must ‘plead facts showing (1) that the official violated a statutory or constitutional right, and (2) that the right was clearly established at the time of the challenged conduct.’” at 287 (quoting Ashcroft v. al-Kidd , 563 U.S.

Laws

Laws Supervision Security

State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions.

Communications

Communications Legislation Implementation Public Health

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.) Extending the Yellow Line south on Rte.

Elected Officials

Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations

Richard's Rules for Restaurant (Food) Based Revitalization, Salt Lake City and DC's Chinatown

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 8, 2024

It had a decent run, but it closed in 2005 (" Wah Luck House maintains culture in dying D.C. Chinatown ," Washington Post , 2011). It was an okay size and in a pretty good location roughly at the intersection of 7th and H Streets NW and across from the Gallery Place Metrorail Station.

Housing

Housing Development

I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

I've written about relocation of DC government agencies over the years as a misguided economic development strategy (" The Reeves Center Myth Revisited ," 2011, " Office Buildings Won't Save Anacostia ," 2005). Especially in secondary and tertiary business districts.

Development

Development Economic Development Community Development Public Health

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Bush, when the administration and the Federal Reserve proposed to limit the size of the investment portfolios of the two companies in 2005. See [link]. The GSEs won that battle, and no limits were imposed until conservatorship, when they were included in the original PSPA in September 2008. [21] 22] See the G-fee Report, pp.

Press Release

Press Release Housing Regulations Implementation

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. 2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures. Bilham 2011. He attributed it to rapid population growth. Ambraseys, N.

Social Media

Social Media Communications Management Development

2024 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

JANUARY 12, 2025

average read per month: 11.25 average read per week: 2.6 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

Management

Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia.

Elected Officials

Elected Officials Public Safety Management Housing

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

JANUARY 3, 2014

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.

Social Media

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots

2023 reading list and commentary

2021 reading list and commentary

2022 reading list and commentary

Webinars

21 years later H Street NE commercial district is still dirty

CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Richard's Rules for Restaurant (Food) Based Revitalization, Salt Lake City and DC's Chinatown

I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

2024 reading list and commentary

Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

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.

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