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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

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

Before Ohio’s new county land banks were conceived, the main goal from 2004 to 2006 was to respond to local leaders’ demand for speedier tax foreclosure of long tax-delinquent vacant and abandoned lands. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Ohio Tax Foreclosure Reform: Precursor to Ohio’s County Land Banks.

Legislation

Legislation Operations Elected Officials Laws

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

WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too. When I first saw coverage I thought, "what about the 2017" initiative, although granted it was before covid. But of course, conditions have changed greatly since then.

Transportation

Transportation Public Transportation Communications Implementation

Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Medaglia was tasked by its then owner, Ascension Health, with closing or selling it. Instead, he emboldened the hospital's board to break away from the chain in 2009 and become independent.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Public Health Development Housing

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Third, was the pro-tunnel effort, which failed, and the desire to have a better connection to the Dulles Airport Terminal, more comparable to National Airport (" Winners and losers with the Dulles subway project ," 2007).

Elected Officials

Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations

Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

She is the Hayward, California city manager and has worked in the office since 2006. He works in the town of Cooper City, Florida and was elected in 2007. Located in Illinois, the city of Evanston’s blog often involves the latest news. City Manager’s Blog. Fran David proves that city managing isn’t just for men. City Manager’s Blog.

Government

Government City Manager Budgeting Local Government

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

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.)

Housing

Housing Regulations Government Accountability

The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Many years ago Leimert Park in Los Angeles was featured in the Washington Post as a black-business district (" Los Angeles's Black Pride: Taking In the Retro Vibe of Leimert Park ," places , 2006). I visited it back then and wasn't impressed. But it provided the bones for a model. Especially with amped up investment.

Economic Development

Economic Development Housing Development Community Development

Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

at with opportunity for direct “horizontal communication” between network peers (Schmidtchen, 2006) and as I would also point out, leaders inspire social action or other participatory behavior. 2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND. References. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, eds.,

Social Media

Social Media Public Administration Communications Leadership

Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A lot of my thinking about arts revitalization and more generally as an element of a community's culture was influenced by the failure of a bunch of DC arts organizations around 2003-2006. Ultimately owning facilities is key to protect the city's interest.

Community Development

Community Development Nonprofit Development Management

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

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). This incredible exponential growth of the movement was likely a consequence of the movement’s decentralization (Brafman & Beckstrom, 2006).

Social Media

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots

2023 reading list and commentary

2021 reading list and commentary

2022 reading list and commentary

Webinars

A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

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

WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Top 50 City Government Blogs

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

The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024

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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