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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Prior to that, Johnson served as the director of administrative services at the California State Board of Equalization from 2005 to 2007 and held various positions at the California Department of Food and Agriculture from 1989 to 2005. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from St.

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Interesting study on litter focuses on the brand of the trash

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And I wrote more pieces over the years. -- " Every litter bit hurts ," 2005 -- " Litter revisited ," 2006 Photo by Inked78. Plastic was the most common material recorded, accounting for 63.1% One of my earliest blog entries was on litter, as a result of those efforts. 700 block of H Street NE. of all items.

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Market, Message, and Medium: A Library Marketer Shares How She Tackles Promotions in a Time Crunch

Super Library Marketing

Suzanne Macaulay began her career as a Children’s Librarian at Henry Waldinger Memorial Library in Valley Stream, New York in 2005. Most of the patrons enrolled in this program are seniors and older adults, and many of them do not have email addresses let alone Facebook accounts. A quick example is our Books by Mail program.

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To shift away some trips from the car, we need super robust transportation demand management processes

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Although UDOT says they took the Frontrunner and current expansion plans into account. DC needs to be much more active when it comes to TDM (it does have some requirements), including the creation of Transportation Demand Management Districts (I suggested this for DC starting in 2005!!!!!!!!)

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. 25] He resigned in 2004 due to accounting irregularities. [26] Another was their lobbying efforts, as the two GSEs became among the most powerful lobbying interests in Washington, D.C.

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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. The local government here strives to be accountable and accessible. His blog keeps up to dates with his dealings and policies in his city. Mayor Slay. Louis on April 17, 2001.

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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. As the government has successfully implemented low downpayment mortgage products, closing costs now account for roughly half of all the cash needed upfront by many first-time homebuyers to purchase a home.

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