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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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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

Moving on to the third part, we then exposited our ideas about developing an American grand strategy based on “guarded openness”—a principle that, for example, encourages reaching out widely with ideas about freedom and progress, while still being circumspect about diffusion of advanced information processes and technologies.

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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

WMATA has even more issues because if either Maryland or Virginia have Republican Governors, it makes it very difficult to develop consensus support for such a tax, because they see it, justifiably or not, as helping DC disproportionately. So given there's been talk about this for at leas 20 years I'm not holding my breath.

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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)

2 The report came about at a time when the FHLBs have been increasingly criticized for neglecting their housing and community development mission and instead using their subsidies and privileges to benefit their financial institution owners and executives. As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

When I first wrote about this in 2005, it was about "how do you get activation in neighborhood commercial districts when there aren't a lot of restaurants, and the neighborhoods are just beginning to improve, that is, attract more residents and businesses. 20 years later, perhaps the title is a bit of a misnomer.

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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

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. They still haven't.